The Williamson Tunnels

Deep beneath Liverpool, England lie and long forgotten about network of tunnels, caverns and chambers.  They lie forgotten about beneath Liverpool and YOU CAN HELP save them by voting at the website below.  Please vote for our good friends The Joseph Williamson Society.


http://communityforce.natwest.com/project/5968


They were dug over 200 years ago by an eccentric rich merchant called Joseph Williamson. He spent about thirty years of his life paying unemployed men to dig these tunnels and then he died in 1840 - without leaving any maps, plans or telling anybody what the heck he was playing at!

SHUB have been privileged enough to be allowed to explore part of this hidden network, big thanks to the Joseph Williamson Society.

They are a small charity being run by volunteers and need your help to secure £6000 of funding.

If you could spare two minutes to register and vote for the Joseph Williamson Society at the NatWest Community Force Wesbite


http://communityforce.natwest.com/project/5968

it would be greatly appreciated. For two minutes of your time you could help save a unique part of Britains heritage.


On behalf of SHUB, Thank You.

Pasha Coxhill - Tall Bikes, Wooden Bikes and Bike Wars

 Pasha Coxhill and Co are spearheading a new wave of bicycle enthusiasm in Liverpool.  SHUBs Richard MacDonald interviews this charming gent and discovers some of his brilliant creations.

Q: So who are you?
A: I'm Pasha Coxhill and this is the Number 2 Bike Company.

Q: What were the motivations for the company?
A: I used to work for Cycling Solutions, a company in Liverpool who go into schools to teach kids, ages 9-10, how to ride bicyles on the road. They got a massive gig off the council to get new bikes into deprived areas and they needed a mechanic to sign the bikes off as officallyroadworthy so I got the job doing that. The must have been about 400 bikes, so I learnt a lot about bike maintainance and getting them running.
The hours from that job started dwindling a bit as the funding was being cut and I thought 'Uh Oh, i've gotta get some money' well I knew a bit about bikes and i've got a mate down at the tip and I know Bulky Bob (a company working with councils to recycle and reuse bulky household waste) so I went to Bulky Bob and said “look give me any old bikes, I'll give you a fiver each bike, take them home, do them up and sell them on... just to make some money... to pay the rent, then it went crazy!

Ride with us on tall bikes, wooden bikes and bike jousting, after the jump...