www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/hidden-costs-mersey-gateway-14618582
The Liverpool Echo has the article on its web site – see link above
For such a welcome and positive project it seems to have been mired in controversy ever since it opened a few months back. This Echo article points to all the ways there seem to be to make a few bob out of the passing motorist.
And the much older Runcorn-Widnes Bridge will be joining that controversy it seems when it reopens after refurbishment.
The Art Deco portal to Queensway the first Mersey Tunnel
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/17-deaths-250-tonnes-explosive-13696923
The Liverpool Echo has the story on its web site – see link above
These are the tickets my family were given when we walked through the new (2nd) Tunnel in 1971, the day before it opened to vehicles.
This is the front page of the booklet produced to celebrate the opening of Kingsway Tunnel in 1971.
I have always been fascinated by the Mersey Tunnels, their history and how they were constructed. This Liverpool Echo article gives an interesting insight into both of them.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-40837594
The BBC has the story on its web site – see link above
There does not seem to be much in the world of the Internet that is not open to fraud these days but locals who want to register to use the new Mersey Gateway Bridge need to be careful of this scam.
I thought I would share these two photographs which I took some 15 months apart. The changes in Bootle and Seaforth’s dockland area in this short period of time is striking.
April 2015
July 2016
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Both photos are amongst my Flickr shots at:-
Van Oord – Artemis in the Mersey
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03j1dp0
This short BBC video (see link above) is well worth watching for a bird’s eye view of Liverpool’s waterways.
The photo above is amongst my flicker shots at:-
Taking a cruise from Liverpool recently gave me a personally unique opportunity to take some shots that otherwise would not be possible. Here are a selection:-
Formby Point
Liverpool Pilot Boat Petrel
New Brighton and Perch Rock Lighthouse
Buoy those wind turbines are big
Crosby Coastguard Station
When a flying saucer landed in Crosby – Crosby Swimming Baths
Waterloo & Seaforth Radar Tower
Looking down the River towards the sea
Victoria Tower – The Dockers Clock
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These photos are also amongst my Flickr shots at:-