The Queensway Tunnel was the second tunnel under the Mersey – the first being the railway tunnel in 1886. Construction of the road tunnel started in 1925 and in 1928 the two pilot holes (one from the Liverpool side and one from the Birkenhead side) met within 1″ of each other. The project cost £8m (nearly £600,000,000 in today’s money!) and was opened in July 1934 by George V at a ceremony watched by 200,000 people. Sadly, 17 men died during construction. This was a magnificent engineering achievement and at the time, the tunnel was known as the “Eighth Wonder of the World.”
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