Kingsway Tunnel ventilation tower and shafts
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Kingsway Tunnel ventilation tower and shafts by Jonathan Hutchins as part of the Geograph project.
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Kingsway Tunnel ventilation tower and shafts
Image: © Jonathan Hutchins Taken: 1 Apr 2018
These were built in 1971 to ventilate the new Kingsway Tunnel, a second Mersey Tunnel created when the 1930s Queensway Tunnel was unable to cope with the rise in postwar traffic.
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image Location
Latitude
53.411022
Longitude
-3.017227