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Re: Please Help « Reply #10 Posted: 28 November 2009 at 02:38 PM »
I did a little research, Meg. But noteable lowestoft historians such as Ivan Bunn have done much more extensive first hand research, & also come up with nothing.

Doesn't Gary have a tunnel from his house to St Margaret's church! Cheesy
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Re: Please Help « Reply #11 Posted: 28 November 2009 at 04:37 PM »
If it helps at all (!) when I lived in a block of flats in the High St, the cellar looked pretty old and was where all our electric meters were stored.  There were several junctions off the main hallway of the cellar which ended abruptly, and I did think at the time they could have been old tunnels blocked off. 
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Re: Please Help « Reply #12 Posted: 28 November 2009 at 04:58 PM »
that would be a good tourist attraction if there were tunnels here
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Re: Please Help « Reply #13 Posted: 28 November 2009 at 05:11 PM »
could it also be you thinking of windmills on broads they changed their sails for smugglers to see
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Re: Please Help « Reply #14 Posted: 28 November 2009 at 07:09 PM »
Quote from: Joe on 28 November 2009 at 02:38 PM
I did a little research, Meg. But noteable lowestoft historians such as Ivan Bunn have done much more extensive first hand research, & also come up with nothing.

Doesn't Gary have a tunnel from his house to St Margaret's church! Cheesy

No, my tunnel goes into the M & S food department, very handy! Grin

That particular tunnel was rumoured to go from The Swan Inn (atop Swan Score, now Mariners Score) and was also rumoured to have been dug by Cromwell himself.
But since Cromwell had taken over the town at the time, why would he have needed to build tunnels for smuggling or otherwise?
There is no evidence whatsoever to support that any such tunnels have ever existed.

All of the cellars that I have seen in the High Street (including my own) are quite strange in the way they are designed and in many there seem to be more than one entrance/exit blocked off. Some of these actually appear to line up with other houses in the High Street! It is also rumoured that much of the Northern end of the High Street was built across an old monastery and given that many of the cellars resemble crypts and cloisters, this is how all the rumours started. There are also quite a few people over the years that claim to have seen ghostly apparitions of monks, which all adds to the intrigue of the entire area and still fuels the "Tunnels" speculation even to this day - SPOOKY! Smiley
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Re: Please Help « Reply #15 Posted: 28 November 2009 at 07:30 PM »
Quite a handy tunnel gary evil6 , if you extended under the bridge you would not have to wait in the queue and you could charge people to use it!

Quite spooky i am glad i do not have a cellar!
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Re: Please Help « Reply #16 Posted: 29 November 2009 at 09:55 AM »
Thank you all for your help about the tunnel if there was one? but doesnt it make a good story which leaves you think and wounder what we are walking over.
Hope I hope that I havent given you all to much of a head ache? over this.
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Re: Please Help « Reply #17 Posted: 29 November 2009 at 10:08 AM »
No NickB its good fun remembering over stuff we may not have talked about for a while Good luck with the book hope you tell us all when its finished hello
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Re: Please Help « Reply #18 Posted: 30 November 2009 at 11:01 AM »
Quote from: 728 on 28 November 2009 at 07:30 PM
Quite a handy tunnel gary evil6 , if you extended under the bridge you would not have to wait in the queue and you could charge people to use it!

There are already two tunnels under the river, although they aren't particularly glamorous, and a lot of steps the climb to get in and out.
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Re: Please Help « Reply #19 Posted: 30 November 2009 at 11:04 AM »
I only know of the one maintenance tunnel. 


I still like the idea of finding secret tunnels or rooms in the old cellars - used to love reading of the Famous Five finding all kinds of hidden things in old houses!!  I hasten to add I was a bit younger then!!!
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