Forums Forums Wirral History : Chasing the Past History Information Request Just wondering if anybody knows what this is?

I was delivering on Dunstan lane today and passed this.....
just wondering what it is and how it got there? I know you folks will have the answer.

Very Interesting, ive no idea at all ??

Is it water treatment or something? Just lookin on google maps bird eye view. Interesting find!!

wow a tunnel lol

wheres that pm me with a map plz lol

used to be a water tank then they opened up one side nocked the f..k out of it to get in from one side and put up a roller shutter.
Its now a nuclear fuel store and deep level tunnel to monks ferry.

It also grows mushrooms.

wow lets go go

Burton reservoir is covered in gorse bushes and is on Dunstan Lane (by Burton Mushrooms ) , there is a trig point hidden in the gorse bushes on top of the reservoir as well.


Beat me 2 it

inside

What a brilliant use for an old reservoir - a mushroom farm. Pity they didn't do that with Neston Reservoir as well instead of flattening it fot houses.

We're like Mushrooms, kept in the dark and fed a load of shite.

A mushroom farm???? that's a mad one, but I suppose they gotta grow somewhere.

and because Im a Funghi (fun guy)

That looks like something out of a film.. Batman and Robin lol

wow interesting

There are places like this, a bit bigger though. In the event of a nuclear holocaust they were to be used by local government people and the great and the good, to run the country. They are situated all over the country and some are now being sold off because they are outdated. Inside were dorms, comms centres, kitchens, rec rooms, the whole shebang. I did a comms exercise in one in the 1960's, not on the Wirral I might add. They were billed as Ministry of Works Depots for local consumption.