THE LEGENDS OF WALLASEY'S UNDERWORLD
If half the legends of smugglers' tunnels under Wallasey are true. then parts of the borough must be riddled with them. Bulldozers and builders have lost to us forever the chance of finding out the truth about some of them In 1932, workmen demolishing houses in Mersey Street area, found a subterranean passage leading from the river. Adjoining it was a four feet wide shaft 130 feet deep The light of a torch shooed the existence of a passage at the end. Before Corporation officials could be told, workmen filled in the shafts. ' A similar thing happened at Wallasey's old rectory of St. Hilary. In 1938, the then rector found an irregularity in his cellar wall. Closer inspection revealed a doorway blocked with masonry. When this was partly cleared, it uncovered a steep stone stairway descending Into the earth. The outbreak of war prevented the tunnel ever being fully explored. It was bricked up in preparation for the building of a new rectory.
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