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	As the title of the piece suggests, this is a copy of the special supplement published by the Liverpool Daily Post in July 1934 to mark the opening of the Queensway (road) tunnel under the Mersey. It is hard to say why it is filed under 'RAIL' when it is entirely of road-related significance. [[RAIL 475]] contains the files of the Mersey Railway Company, the owners of the only previously-existing crossing of the Mersey, so presumably it was collected by them and was then retained when their files were archived after nationalisation of the railways. Other files make it clear that they were very concerned by the new tunnel and objected to it at every opportunity. It follows that they were keen to collect all available information on the project.		As the title of the piece suggests, this is a copy of the special supplement published by the Liverpool Daily Post in July 1934 to mark the opening of the Queensway (road) tunnel under the Mersey. It is hard to say why it is filed under 'RAIL' when it is entirely of road-related significance. [[:Category:Subseries RAIL 475]] contains the files of the Mersey Railway Company, the owners of the only previously-existing crossing of the Mersey, so presumably it was collected by them and was then retained when their files were archived after nationalisation of the railways. Other files make it clear that they were very concerned by the new tunnel and objected to it at every opportunity. It follows that they were keen to collect all available information on the project.

	The file contains just one item - the broadsheet newspaper pull-out itself. It is on eighty year old paper which is thinner than the newsprint used today, and as such is incredibly fragile. It has been roughly folded into four, so most pages have a worn hole in the middle, and the paper is not so much in danger of tearing as flaking away. Opening it out and turning pages can be a slow and tedious exercise.		The file contains just one item - the broadsheet newspaper pull-out itself. It is on eighty year old paper which is thinner than the newsprint used today, and as such is incredibly fragile. It has been roughly folded into four, so most pages have a worn hole in the middle, and the paper is not so much in danger of tearing as flaking away. Opening it out and turning pages can be a slow and tedious exercise.

	'''[[User:Chris5156\|Chris Marshall]] has filled in a form requesting preservation work, but it's difficult to see what can be done to it, as it is printed very finely on both sides of every sheet.''		''[[User:Chris5156\|Chris Marshall]] has filled in a form requesting preservation work, but it's difficult to see what can be done to it, as it is printed very finely on both sides of every sheet.''

	==Contents of note==		==Contents of note==

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	~~\|'''Location'''~~		\| title = Special supplement from Liverpool Daily Post dated 16 July 1934, commemorating opening of tunnel
	~~\|[[National Archives]]~~		\| daterange = 1934
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	\|Special supplement from Liverpool Daily Post dated 16 July 1934, commemorating opening of tunnel		\| subseries = 475
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	\|1934
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	\|~~'''Catalogue'''~~
	\|~~[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATLN~~=~~6&CATID=2469569 See entry]~~
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|'''Location'''
|[[National Archives]]
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|'''Title'''
|Special supplement from Liverpool Daily Post dated 16 July 1934, commemorating opening of tunnel
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|'''Date range'''
|1934
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|'''Catalogue'''
|[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATLN=6&CATID=2469569 See entry]
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==Context==

As the title of the piece suggests, this is a copy of the special supplement published by the Liverpool Daily Post in July 1934 to mark the opening of the Queensway (road) tunnel under the Mersey. It is hard to say why it is filed under 'RAIL' when it is entirely of road-related significance. [[RAIL 475]] contains the files of the Mersey Railway Company, the owners of the only previously-existing crossing of the Mersey, so presumably it was collected by them and was then retained when their files were archived after nationalisation of the railways. Other files make it clear that they were very concerned by the new tunnel and objected to it at every opportunity. It follows that they were keen to collect all available information on the project.

The file contains just one item - the broadsheet newspaper pull-out itself. It is on eighty year old paper which is thinner than the newsprint used today, and as such is incredibly fragile. It has been roughly folded into four, so most pages have a worn hole in the middle, and the paper is not so much in danger of tearing as flaking away. Opening it out and turning pages can be a slow and tedious exercise.

'''[[User:Chris5156|Chris Marshall]] has filled in a form requesting preservation work, but it's difficult to see what can be done to it, as it is printed very finely on both sides of every sheet.''

==Contents of note==
* Text describing - in excruciating detail - the administration, construction and opening of the tunnel.
* Photographs of the tunnel, inside and out, not found elsewhere.
* Contemporary adverts, etc.

==Links to other files==
:'''[[MT 39/123]]''' TUNNELS: Mersey Tunnel (1923-1928)

:'''[[MT 39/488]]''' WAR MEASURES: Mersey Tunnel: storage of war material (1940)

:'''[[MT 118/261]]''' Birkenhead Mersey Tunnel approaches , A41 (1966-1970)

:'''[[RAIL 475/241]]''' Pontoon bridges at Birkenhead and Liverpool (1913-1925)

:'''[[RAIL 475/250]]''' Operation of tramways and buses through vehicular tunnel (1925-1927)

:'''[[RAIL 475/276]]''' Plans showing tunnel entrances, route of tunnel and longitudinal section received from Basil Mott (1925)

==People with camera copies==
[[User:Chris5156|Chris Marshall]] has a partial copy, including only the photographs.
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