Bearing in mind the latest Coronavirus guidance, Friends of Williamson’s Tunnels has decided to suspend public visits to the tunnels with immediate effect and until further notice. If you or your group has an existing booking we will contact you shortly. For the same reason, the monthly FoWT members meetings in Liverpool are also suspendedContinue reading Visits and meetings postponed
Early views of the tunnels
We hope that everyone is coping with staying at home during these hard and very strange times. As the Tunnels are currently closed, we don’t have any updates or real news to report, so let’s have a look back at some views of the Tunnels in those early days, long before we started our BigContinue reading Early views of the tunnels
Lord Mayor & High Sheriff pay us a visit
On Wednesday 19th Feb, we were honoured to welcome Anna Rothery, Liverpool Lord Mayor and David Steer, the High Sheriff of Merseyside along with Mrs. Steer and their son Oliver on a tour of the Williamson’s Tunnels. They started at Williamson’s House, descending down into the Wine Bins, Sandstone Arch, Gash and the Banqueting HallContinue reading Lord Mayor & High Sheriff pay us a visit
FoWT up for 2nd major Tourism Award
You may remember us winning the ‘Hidden Gem’ Category of the Liverpool City Region Tourism Awards 2019, this was a very proud day indeed for all the volunteers of FoWT. We are delighted to be able to report that FoWT have once again been shortlisted for the ‘Small Visitor Attraction of the Year’ award inContinue reading FoWT up for 2nd major Tourism Award
A new Journey of a Bucket
Several years ago, we made our Journey of a Bucket video. In it, we filmed the progress of one of our hundreds of buckets, from being filled down in the depths of Paddington’s Level 4 through its journey to the skip. We decided to do a similar video but this time in the Subterranean chambersContinue reading A new Journey of a Bucket