OPENING IN DENSE FOG
LIVERPOOL TO BIRKENHEAD
EXPEDITING TRAFFIC
United I'rcsa Associatipn—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, December 18. The opening of the Mersey tunnel, ■which cost £8,000,000 to complete, and was designed to expedite traffic beI twecn Lancashire and Cheshire when fog impedes the ferries, strangely coincided with the densest fog for years. That the ratepayers were getting their moneys worth was demonstrated when 1000 people who were in a hurry joined the 40,000 sightseers, paying sixpence each to walk through the tunnel and incidentally providing £1250 for Christmas dinners for the poor. This is probably the only occasion on which the tunnel will be used by pedestrians. The fog extended from Cornwall to the Scottish border except the southeastern corner of England.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 147, 19 December 1933, Page 11
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122OPENING IN DENSE FOG Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 147, 19 December 1933, Page 11
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