1/Liverpool - The Beatles, major UK port, home to Aintree Racecourse & the Grand National, The Royal Liver Building, base for large Pharmaceutical companies including Astra Zeneca. Also proud new owner of sinkholes & booms whilst it's UNESCO Maritime merchantile status is removed 
2/In the last two weeks we have had reports of at least 4 'Booms' in the Liverpool area. Let's go on a little tour of the new sinkhole features (some probably already fixed but they are interesting non the less). Let's start with the first we recorded. Greenbank Lane, between...
3/Greenbank Road and the main part of Sefton Park. Nearly a metre wide and deep. liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool… This area is close to Penny Lane. The Beatles sang about 'Penny Lane' on their double A-side release in Feb 1967. Remember Green Lane, we're not done yet.
4/Just north of Sefton Park is Toxteth, where the 1981 Toxteth Riots between the Merseyside Police and the black community took place. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Toxt… Michael Heseltine, as "Minister for Merseyside", set up the Liverpool International Garden Festival and the...
5/Mersey Basin Campaign in response to this, the later project to improve the environment from the damage done by industrialisation. Perhaps this improved employment prospects for this community? [Picture: The Royal Albert Docks]
6/PeelPorts invested £400 million in Liverpool2 over 3 yrs, a new deep water container terminal. peelports.com/campaigns/live… On 3 Feb 2017 an enormous sinkhole appeared in the Port side. Constructed on earth, we assume a void was created underneath. liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool…
7/The next sinkhole appeared 19 June 2017 on Edge Lane, near B&M, also around the corner from the Merseyside Edge Lane Police Station and Academy. The hole was considerable at 4.5metres x 5 metres. It took some weeks to fill. liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool…
8/In November 2020 the Army deployed to 6 Liverpool 6 sites for testing liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool…. 2000 soldiers = 333 per site. That's a lot, quite apart from the number! They attended a old School for testing🤔 Simultaneous reports of army heading north passing Liverpool.
9/During the winter 2020 period there were numerous reports of booms from the area especially the south. This was followed in Jan 2021 by three factories experiencing CV spikes on the Speke industrial estate. Jaguar Landrover, Magna Exteriors and Adient. liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool…
10/These 3 sit close to the Medimmune Labs and production facility (producers of the AZ pokey thing). This has now been rebranded Astra Zeneca, being bought out some years ago. They are also close to Halewood Operations and IAC as well as the John Lennon Airport.
11/On the 20 Jan 2021 a sinkhole appeared in Ashbourne Road to the south west of Liverpool to the South of St Michael's Hamlet. Reported as smelling of rotten eggs, apparently the hole appeared due to a violent storm, Storm Christoph (sound familiar?). liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool…
12/On 8 February 2021, Grant Gardens experienced a large sinkhole. It used to be the Liverpool Necropolis (cemetery). The council blamed the collapse of a crypt for the hole. 🤨 Geographically it sits north of Liverpool Uni & Liverpool Royal Infirmary. sputniknews.com/uk/20210209108…
13/On the subject of Hospitals, Alder Hey Children's Hospital was the centre of a scandal on unauthorised retention of stillborn and foetal body parts in 1999. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alder_Hey… Other hospitals also were retaining body parts at that time. theguardian.com/uk/2001/jan/31…
14/In March 2021 the City was caught up in more scandal with the Mayor being arrested by Merseyside Police on charges of corruption. The Government poised to take over the running of the Council. news.sky.com/story/governme…
15/Apart from scattered booms in and around Liverpool all went quiet until last week. Then the earth subsided on 'Green Lane'/Prescot Road outside St Anne's Primary & William Hill 23 July 2021. Apparently due to a burst water main, we know the drill. msn.com/en-us/travel/n…
16/There is a lot of talk about tunnels in the area. We know for sure there are the Williamson Tunnels to the East of the Royal Infirmary, south of the Grant Gardens Sinkhole. Do they go further than appears below, and why were they built in such complexity in the first place?
17/we also think there might be a tunnel running from east Liverpool, through Runcorn and to the Power station area to the south. [see map] There is an old water tower that seems to have a lot of modern hatches around it... the aluminium kind, on the path of in mid Runcorn.
As with all digs, let @battersbyloret1 and I know if you are from the area and have seen or heard anything that we can add to the boom or unusual occurrence maps!
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