Manchester’s underground network exposed as tunnel opened for 'first time since WW2'

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MANCHESTER has an incredible underground network hidden below the streets, and now another tunnel has been explored just six miles outside the city.

Subterranean passageways stretch under large parts of Manchester and the surrounding areas. These tunnels include the remnants of a tube station that never was, a communications bunker, air raid shelters, canals and even shops. Experts say there is evidence of them being used for several hundred years, but they became famous for their role inThe spaces were utilised as air-raid shelters after Manchester was on the receiving end of heavy bombing from the German Luftwaffe during the Blitz.

 

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