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THE Queensway Mersey Tunnel celebrated its 75th anniversary on Sunday when it was opened up for the public to walk through.
A slideshow of Flickr photos from the commemorative event
Daily Post feature writer Peter Elson wrote this feature to mark the occasion...
IT WAS built without any of the technical aids taken for granted today. Yet the Queensway, or Birkenhead Mersey Tunnel, which celebrates its 75th anniversary on Sunday, was superbly engineered.
So much so, that when the two tunnel bores from either side of the river met, they were only an inch out of alignment.
THIS month the public art work Dream is being put into place on the site of the former Sutton Manor Colliery in St Helens.
It has been chosen by former miners, including Gary Conley, above, who is now a resource manager for adult social care for St Helens Council. The piece of coal he's holding is from a seam 2,000 feet deep and over three miles from the pithead.
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