Williamson Tunnels Heritage Centre
Hand-dug sandstone tunnels under brick arches, built by an eccentric merchant's hired labourers.
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This guide to the Williamson Tunnels Heritage Centre in Liverpool follows Joseph Williamson, a tobacco merchant on Edge Hill in the early eighteen hundreds, and the labourers he kept on his payroll long after there was obvious work for them. It begins with a neighbour, a nursery and a wall, and turns to the men who cut these passages into the sandstone. Listen standing beneath the brick arches, where you can look straight up at their work.
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