• Lying just beneath the stone-strewn rubble floor is Williamson's basement, and below that is the recently excavated Banquet Hall tunnel.
  • The Williamson Tunnels were a series of tunnels beneath Liverpool, built under the direction of Joseph Williamson. Williamson was working on the tunnels in 1820.
  • The Williamson Tunnels had remained derelict, filled with rubble and refuse, until archaeological investigations were carried out in 1995.
  • The Friends of Williamson's Tunnels (FoWT) is a registered charity, managed by a board of trustees and committed to exploring, excavating and preserving the...
  • The Williamson Tunnels are one of literally millions of mining cavity features dotted across our country, paying testament to our long industrial history.
  • The 19th century Liverpool historian James Stonehouse, who toured parts of the tunnels following Williamson's death in 1840, described the labyrinth as “a...
  • Little is known of this curious Liverpudlian, or the reasoning behind the construction of his Williamson Tunnels.
  • The next position on the list of the most beautiful historical sites in Merseyside is the Williamson Tunnels which are a number of sizable underground tunnels...
  • The Friends of Williamson's Tunnels (FoWT) is a registered charity, managed by a board of trustees and committed to exploring...
  • However, from the 1980s onwards interest in Williamson steadily increased, leading to the formation of the two major societies and, eventually, excavation of tunnels...