MERSEY TUNNEL.
40,000 PEOPLE WALK THROUGH.
• Nearly 40,000 people took advantago on Sunday of what may be the only opportunity for pedestrians to walk through the new £8,000,000 Mersey Tunnel, the largest subaqueous road in the world. The tunnel was 'opened for eight hours at a nominal charge, the whole of the receipts being given to the Good Fellow Fund, organised by the Liverpool ''Daily Post and Echo," which provides thousands of poor families with Christmas dinners. The dislocation by a dense fog of all forms of road transport, except tramway cars, prevented thousands of people from outlying districts from visiting the tunnel, which is to be opened to road only nest July.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 54, Issue 198, 4 June 1934, Page 3
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113MERSEY TUNNEL. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 54, Issue 198, 4 June 1934, Page 3
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