Birkenhead Monks Tunnels

This place was found open so we had a look inside. the manhole had us stumped until we found it topside :)

This was recorded some time ago so it may well be closed up now. shame as you never know just waht lurks beneath you as you walk round the streets on birkenhead.

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Education

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• birkenhead
• monks
• tunnels
• priory
• UE
• urban
• exploration
• underground

[swollower]

As a kid we used to go into the"Old Mother Redcaps" on the prominade just before New Brighton and wander round the tunnels .The house was derelict (spellt wrong I know!)even then (early 70`s) But the tunnel went quite away one towards new brighton .One back up towards the town and one that went towards the shore but that was bricked up and used to have water coming through when the tide was in. But they filled all that in when they knocked it down. Boo-hoo

[RichardWhelan82]

@swollower Great stuff! you should get yourself onto wikiwirral.co.uk its got all this stuff and more on it :)

Thanks for the comment.

[ianbx]

Don't bother as the place has now been secured. It's a bastard to get to and the paths are all overgrown. The fence shown across the entrance has now had steel sheet welded over it so you can't even see in any more. If you are interested, the other end of the tunnels comes out behind the CSA building at Woodside, but last time I looked this too was sealed up "tighter than a Ducks arse" (and that's water tight).

[RichardWhelan82]

@ianbx indeed. Thanks for the comment

[louisfrench]

is the entrance to that between the rock retail park and the birkenhead tunnel, behind that wooden fence near the walkpath? im well goin huntin for that with me mates haha, nice dry place to take some dirty women haha.

[RichardWhelan82]

@louisfrench it sure is lol

[streetlugechris]

I did live by what is Rock retail park as a kid and this tunnel was a play ground for us as kids, we often would walk through it down to woodside with a crappy torch would scare the #hit out of us.

[hoot7969]

These are not the monks tunnels, the monks tunnels are by the fly over.....

Good footage though....

[msinno1969]

does anybody have photos of priory buildings or white street near the now demosilon of st marys church pleses m sinno1969 thanks

[babylamb123]

that man hole cover is on ivy street!!!

[swollower]

@RichardWhelan82 Thanks but I now live in Hannover germany .But I`ve just heard that underneath an old factory here they used to built subs andthen sail them out through tunnels to the canal 5 Km away. I gonna follow that one up for sure!

[paddedjohn]

this is the old railway tunnel that comes out at woodside not the monks tunnel, the monks tunnel entrance is right next to it by the old atmosphere and comes out at monks ferry by the swinging arm pub. we used to go in both of them twenty five years ago before they were blocked up.

[MultiBandWagon]

@RichardWhelan82 You've got some brilliant videos on here especially the Bidston Hill Tunnels... Well impressed. I'd love to go in these someday but I don't really know enough about the safety of going in them and wouldn't really like to venture down there alone for that reason. Well done for the previous videos and would like to see more in the future.