It’s no secret that underneath Liverpool’s streets lies a maze of tunnels built decades ago, but in 1999, a discovery was made that helped change the way the city’s underground world would go on to be accessed.
The Liverpool ECHO has looked back over a number of old newspaper cuttings which describe the discovery of a “hidden labyrinth” in the summer of 1999. Constructed in the 19th Century by Joseph Williamson, also known as the ‘Mole of Edge Hill’, the new maze of tunnels expanded the city’s already vast underground network.
An ECHO article dating July 19, 1999, explains how a “major breakthrough” was found during construction of the Williamson student village in Edge Hill. Historians uncovered the underground labyrinth after stumbling upon an old newspaper cutting which claimed there were tunnels beneath an old house on the site.
