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History - On 13 July 1874 the Cheshire Lines Comittee obtained an Act to build the ‘North Liverpool Extension Line’ a double-track railway to connect its main Liverpool to Manchester line to the deep water berths of the rapidly expanding north Liverpool docks. The CLC chose a route that skirted...

June 2025 We recently visited the Walton Tunnel in Liverpool. It’s been posted before and is your standard CLC tunnel—dark, damp, and largely untouched since its closure. I went with @Mr Budge, and although there wasn’t much to see beyond the long, empty stretch of tunnel, it was still an...

Robinson & Sons, Walton Works, Chesterfield The Walton Works in the Brampton area of Chesterfield originally began as a candlewick and tape mill constructed in the 1770s for messrs Hewitt, Bunting & Co and by the mid-1800s the mill complex had expanded to include the spinning and doubling of...

This place has been covered loads and there isn't much to it other than huge empty spaces but it's right on our doorstep so had to go and have a look round. We ended up finding it more enjoyable to photograph than expected so decided to post. Coupe Foundry operated on this site for more than...

HISTORY: Seems that there are a few Shakespeare Foundries in the North West so I'll do my best to match up the correct informtion. This one is in Higher Walton near Preston and went bust in 2015. I've seen reports saying 2018, but I think that's when government finished insolvency proceedings...

**Reposted due to forum server issues** History (from what I found off of a 2014 article): The loss of a contract with a vehicle manufacturer led to a historic castings manufacturer entering administration, it has been revealed. Coupe Foundry, which has operated from its site in Lancashire for...

This place was sent to me via a friend who attended the school a few years ago and already been explored by herself and some others. The school is being demolished and reconstructed into a brand new morden school building under the name 'Three Rivers Academy'. The total cost for this...

by stranton visited with @ACID- REFLUX The Walton tunnels consists of 3 tunnels, the south tunnels 247 yds, middle tunnels 643 yds & north tunnels 229 yds there's a 70 yd cutting between 1 & 2 tunnels & 143 yd cutting between 2 & 3 tunnels crossed by Liston street bridge. running from Kirkdale...

Walton Mill also known as 'Bump' Mill was built in the 1770's by partners Hewitt (a linen and woollen draper) and Bunting (a mercer and draper and later a tallow chandler. "Bump" refers to cheap cotton that was manufactured there in the 1790's. I read somewhere, that dressings for the Crimea...

This is my first go, so please try to be gentle... I'm not much of a photographer either... Not sure if this should be in the epic fail bin, as there's huge parts of this site, that I haven't as yet managed to get into, although I do have a few ideas about that. This place is covered in...

A quick explore after work last week. Went to the Walton Burn near Castle Cary Cumbernauld, to take photos of the waterfalls but also found this amazing tunnel under the railway and you can return by a funny shaped culvert a short distance downstream. Couldnt find any history about this place...

Visited with sephiroth, this Hospital has been closed due to relocation and is due to be razed inside the next few months, it has 24 hour on site security and is tight as a drum so there was definately No getting inside but we had a good bimble about the property and we were pretty amazed at...

Walton on the Hill Station was situated on the Cheshire Lines Committee's North Liverpool Extension Line which connected its main Liverpool to Manchester line to the north Liverpool docks at Huskisson by skirting through agricultural land to the east of Liverpool. When the line opened...