October 2004

This is set in the close packed terraces of the remaining part of Shorefields. It is clearly visible in the Lavrock Bank series of files dated 1904 and was present even before the housing was built.

It is a ventilation shaft for the tunnel which carried the Cheshire Lines Railway  from Harrington Dock, where the line went underground, through the Dingle Mount and on to its exit at a cutting in the Dingle estates thence towards St Michael's station.