A replica of a monument which once stood at the Liverpool entrance to the Queensway Tunnel is seeking city council approval.
In 1934, an obelisk created by Herbert James Rowse was placed to mark the start of the Liverpool side of the tunnels connecting the city with the Wirral. A second one was positioned in Birkenhead at the Wirral entrance, but its sister monument on Liverpool's Old Haymarket no longer exists.
Plans put forward by Merseytravel seek to reinstate the statue, as well as relocating two green toll booths from George’s Dock Building Plaza. A report submitted to Liverpool Council said: “The hard landscaping around the Mersey Tunnel entrance is dominated by highway engineering works carried out over the last 50+ years and has resulted in a poor visual appearance.
