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Originally Posted by BidstonBaz
Though the red bricked house situated on top of hill (the club house as I know it) has an entrance leading down into the tunnels quite possibly in a hell of a lot better condition than that pictured. Though I'm sure somebody from the forums has already approached the owners but I cant remember what came of it.

matty, this sounds like the picture u got over that persons wall.....

dam it, i'm on a mission now........ wanna find some photo's. they must exist...

Well yeah, the only problem is the house wasnt red. But still I am pretty certain there is an entrance to the tunnels from one of the houses, because I rekon this is the way the council enter the tunnels - they have a way in. Plus I have heard from a few people about there being another entrance via one of the houses up on the hill.

heres some other interesting news facts, from wirrals Birkenhead news
one reader writes
>from Murrayfield Drive, we went across the fields to Bidston Hill.

On arriving there we noticed a steel door on the side of the hill (the side facing Hoylake Road) and the door was open, a couple of us went in and to our surprise found huge tunnels going an awfully long way under Bidston Hill.

Off the tunnels inside were rooms with painted signs, and huge electric motors with blades of them, like extraction fans.

I can also remember a big, red cross sign on one of the rooms, probably the sign of a small hospital ward.

I think alas, I saw holes in the ceiling with steel ladders going upwards.

These tunnels were not small affairs, and I have often wondered just what they were, and what they were used for.
More about Wirrals Tunnels here
http://icwirral.icnetwork.co.uk/news...name_page.html