Liverpool has a "vast network" of tunnels underneath its streets, and although it's known that they were built 200 years ago by tobacco merchant Joseph Williamson, no one knows
why. A "small band of investigators" has recently begun breaking into and exploring the tunnels.
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So far, they’ve uncovered ink wells once used by schoolchildren, bottles that held everything from beer to poison, jam jars, ceramics from Liverpool’s Royal Infirmary, oyster shells, chamber pots, animal bones and hundreds of clay pipes.
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Perhaps Williamson wanted secret passages to get to and from buildings in Edge Hill. Or was a smuggler and needed the tunnels to carry out covert operations.
Or maybe he and his wife belonged to a fanatical religious cult that anticipated the end of the world, and his tunnels were designed to provide shelter during the apocalypse.
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/2015...s-of-liverpool
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Much shorter story
here, but with video of the tunnels.