'Underground Wirral' talk at Upton Library
20 February 2012 - 7:00pm
‘Underground Wirral’ by Gavin Hunter.

This is a presentation of the caves and tunnels under our peninsular.

Cost: £2.50 (Friends £2.00)
Location:
Upton Library
Ford Road
Upton
CH49 0TB
Telephone: (0151) 677 5677
Email: [email protected]

Interesting granny thanks.

Will you be attending?

Not sure Ste,not really into dark holes! There are many who may be interested tho'

cool intresting may go

How do we book for this? Do we have to contact Upton library direct?

Imagine we all turn up and it turns out to be TC doing the talk.

I'm game

There is no metion of booking but to be honest as WMBC don't always get things spot on,I would suggest you phone the library and ask, to be on the safe side. Then you can post it on here for all to see.

Thanks Gran, I am deffo going!
I will contact the library at my earliest convenience and let you all know the outcome, unless someone else gets there first.

Get your tickets at the library, or ring prior to the event to check they have some available upon arrival.

We planned to go and see Gav at Earlston Rd but it co incided with the Byrne Ave u.e. (always prefer Practise to Theory lol)

Mr Chappell is a wiki member, ain't he?

Doh! Sorry guys, got confused with Gavin Chappell, who recently did a talk .

haha lol kev i am game

I'm interested in going to this,
What about a list of who's going and maybe having a wiki badge showing to introduce each other

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I'm interested in going to this,
What about a list of who's going and maybe having a wiki badge showing to introduce each other

1 derekdwc
2 T.C.

See if this is definatly on 1st

Same talk also at Birkenhead History Society on 19th April at the Williamson Art Gallery.

This is essential viewing for anyone interested in underground caves, tunnels, abandoned buildings, etc, though information for Wirral is a bit thin on the ground (no mention of the Tranmere tunnels, for instance):

Subterranea Britannica

There may also be interest in the Overhead Railway:

SubBrit

Documentary in production

Photos not seen before

Thanks mike t

Just phoned and it's pay at the door.
Should be able to accommodate 50 people so they said get there quite early 6-30 ish

Different to the chappell talk Rude,

Gavin Chappel is in Vicy road wallasey on 25th @ 2.30 pm tickets 2 quid.

Talking all about Smugglers and Wreckers, guarantee Red noses and ladys cave will feature heavily

Cheers Degs, saved me a job.

I am up for this definitely as long as I am not working in some far flung corner of the uk on the day.

Half of wiki will be there lol

we should all go the pub after it as its my b'day!! haha

I'm up for that, as usual.

Me too
Horse and Jockey?
Eagle and Crown?
Been many years since I've been in either

I have no preference assuming they both sell beer!

Thanks for this. I am not free on Monday evenings so might go to the April talk

Gavin Hunter is brilliant and is a very interesting chap to listen to.

I'm interested in going to this,
What about a list of who's going and maybe having a wiki badge showing to introduce each other

1 derekdwc
2 T.C.
3 paintboffin
4 devilwoman
5 rocks

I'm interested in going to this,
What about a list of who's going and maybe having a wiki badge showing to introduce each other

1 derekdwc
2 T.C.
3 paintboffin
4 devilwoman
5 rocks
6 ynwa96 [/quote]
7 Kevinfinity (no silly badge please)

7 Kevinfinity (no silly badge please) [/quote]
Tomorrow night
Anyone else thinking of going

Tomorrow night
Anyone else thinking of going[/quote]
8 paxvobiscum. (my usual Monday meeting now cancelled due to Flu)

Dear oh dear,what a mess. Start again.

1 derekdwc
2 T.C.
3 paintboffin
4 devilwoman
5 rocks
6 ynwa96
7 Kevinfinity
8 paxvobiscum

Tomorrow night
Anyone else thinking of going

see you all there

when is this

DATE please ???

Now! See ^ it will be repeated at Art Gallery.

Well that was a disappointment, we got turned away due to the meeting being over subscribed, we got there at about 6.45.

Maybe the next one will be at a larger venue.

We couldn't even go the pub either (which one) and we don't know enough people who we'd recognise from the Wiki.

PB & DW

Horse and Jockey, i think.

Get there just before 9 and a whole group will walk in, shortly after!

Have a look in earlier posts for details of the same talk at Balls Road or go to www.wirral-libraries.net as the Talks are often repeated at differant branches.

It was a lot busier than they where expecting. It was an interesting talk. You should try to get to the next one. Loads of things in it we already know about but there where a lot of other things that where new to me. It lasted about an hour and you get a free glass of wine. We also saw some rather familiar looking photos.

Lol@ familiar photos

yes Kev, some rather familiar looking photos :)glad we got there early
well worth the £2.50 entrance fee,

Its the last time i go by public transport, from Hoylake road to Upton £2.20

Me Ste and digging stepper are going the next one

You can both come with us dude

I enjoyed it, really interesting and it was nice to meet some members as well. I might take the kids to the next one?

good talk but loads more peeps than expected and the projector broke down and an audience member had to run home for his to lend the library haha
great to meet some new peeps and also kevs mum nice to meet you too

@derek and croc thanx for the drinks xx

well had a really good night peeps was great to meet peeps

and your mum kev she lovely ynwa was good to meet you mate and the gang from 28 days derek and croc thanks for the drinks and history info nice to see you joe as always mate

where is this at and is it 25th feb
Is there a phone number to check if by ticket or pay at the door please?

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great to meet some new peeps and also kevs mum nice to meet you too

Thank you Rocks and Trancentral for your kind remarks.It was great to meet some of the Wiki Members and I am sorry some missed it. Greasby Library always tickets it's talks which is best. Viking talks and others fill up quickly and the usual limit is fifty tickets, thats the reason I got there before 6.30pm yesterday.

Digging deeper did post earlier in this thread of anothedr date other than at a library for the talk:'Same talk also at Birkenhead History Society on 19th April at the Williamson Art Gallery'.

You might not know it but you cannot now phone a library direct. Your call is directed to a call centre and they then ring the library you want and then this call centrephone back if they cannot answer your query.
I asked for details of meetings at different libraries but this was beyond their scope!

Such alot of new information to me came out of the talk and it was presented in a very professional manner.


One of the best evenings, some years ago,was a Circle Dancing Party in the New Brighton Caves.Tim invited us all to his home and then we went into the caves via the garden entrance. Walked a short distance and came to a wider cavern lit by candles. What a wonderful setting to dance.
My grandmother worked at Mother Redcaps Cafe, so the talk brought back lots of good memories.

Yeh really good meeting you too Trancentral. Respect goes out to certain Wiki members, because let's face it, without them the talk wouldn't have been so interesting. Also if you ever need another "helper" the next time there's an expedition I'll gladly put my name in the hat, work permitting!

I would love to meet you, are you going to the one in April? i will ask DD if he would like to come as well.

Ok cheers Sarah_ZR, we'll look out for the next one

PB

whos Digging Stepper????lol.

Check your PM's mate ;), bounced you a load of info back

Hello Lightning.Thanks. Have sent you a PM

gutted i missed it would of liked to be there

If anyone is interested, Gavin will be giving this talk at Bromborough Civic Centre on the 21st of April at 1.30 PM.

It is one of a series of talks on throughout the day all part of a mind, body & spirit fair. It's £2 entry all day including the Tunnel's talk and all the other talks.

I'm not trying to advertise or anything but thought people may be interested as a few people missed out.

Gavin's talk is being repeated at Upton Library on 23rd April at 7pm but you have to book in advance 0151 677 5677 £2.50

Gavin's going to be a busy man over the coming weeks by the sounds of it. He gave the talk for free at Greasby a few weeks ago and it was extremely popular. There was just one small poster up in the library and it filled out!
Fingers crossed he may have some new info on some Wallasey tunnels by then but I wouldn't want to drop any spoilers