TUNNEL ROADWAY.
The King to Open Mersey Highway. LONDON, July 18. The King and Queen went to Liverpool to-day. The King will open the new Mersey tunnel, which has taken 2000 workmen eight years to build. It is two miles long and 44 feet wide, and cost £8,000.000. It is designed exclusively for motor traffic and is the world’s largest underwater roadway. It will link Liverpool and Bootle on the Lancashire side with Birkenhead and Wallasey on the Cheshire side.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20361, 19 July 1934, Page 1
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80TUNNEL ROADWAY. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20361, 19 July 1934, Page 1
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