Crumlin Road Tunnel, Belfast
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Crumlin Road Tunnel, Belfast
Image: © Rossographer Taken: 27 Jul 2014
Tunnel connecting Crumlin Road Gaol to the Courthouse http://www.geograph.org.uk/snippet/1664 . The tunnel was used to take remand prisoners for trial and, after sentencing, convicted prisoners to the jail. The tunnel also supplied heat to the courthouse - through the partially covered pipes on the right - so when operational apparently it was extremely hot down here (not now, and is several degrees cooler than at the surface). The original brick roof is in the foreground - beyond that the rest of the tunnel has been clad in reinforced concrete: this is the section that is actually under the road and the concrete was added in the 1970s to protect it from surface level car bombs (the tunnel is actually only 1.5 metres deep). Fights were apparently common down here during the 'Troubles' as rival groups of paramilitary prisoners would regularly meet going to and from court.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.60868
Longitude
-5.942808