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Article: FEATURES: The mole of Merseyside Andrew Gilligan on an eccentric tycoon's underground legacy to the city of Liverpool
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- December 29, 1996
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IF YOU ever travel by train to Liverpool, look up to your right
as you enter the enormous, sheer-walled, dripping cutting that
lasts for the final mile into Lime Street station. Two
ordinary-looking holes in the rockface are the only public sign of
an entire subterranean city of tunnels, rooms and follies which has
lain forgotten under the streets of Liverpool for the past 160
years.
The council refused to admit that the passages even existed. Many
locals dismissed them as a myth. But now a group of
conservationists is hoping to open to the public the Edge Hill
Tunnels, the bizarre private underworld of an eccentric Liverpool
tobacco millionaire.
Among what may be miles of underground ...