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Tunnel Tour - Architecture |
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carving is above the entrance to the tunnel. |
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The
architecture of the tunnel was designed by Herbert Rouse.
One of the most impressive features is the lighting column.
It is 60ft high and made from reinforced concrete and polished
granite.
The columns were situated at either end of the tunnel, near
to the toll booths. Today the column at the Liverpool side
no longer exists.
Prior
to the opening pedestrians were allowed to walk through the
tunnel to admire the construction in aid of charity, something
that still happens to this day.
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Steve
Noonan contributes that:
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Reading
about the Tunnel and the article on the granite lighting column
which no longer exists on the Liverpool side, you may be interested
to know its whereabouts.
My
father worked for 'Liverpool Corporation' in the 60's in the
Cleansing Yard at St Domingo Lane, Everton.
The granite pieces where transported and buried at the back
of the yard where there once existed an old quarry. Old setts
and cobbles, stone, aggregate etc where deposited here along
with the Tunnel column. I have recently discovered that the
old Toll Booths where also placed here.
The site where it is buried is as mentioned before the old
'Corporation Cleansing Yard' which is on the site of 'Cobbs
Quarry' an old sandstone quarry which could still be found
on the 1906 Ordanance survey map.
Apparently behind the cleansing offices there stood an old
Refuse Destructor and from this the material brought and burnt
went into the quarry as fill material. When this became redundant
it was also broken down and placed in the quarry!
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impressions of the entrances to the tunnel. |
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17
men
died during the construction of the tunnel.
This memorial was erected as part of the Queensway Tunnel
Diamond Jubilee Celebrations in remembrance of those who died
during its construction.
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