A photograph I have never seen before; visible are the arch legs of the Loftus to Carlin How viaduct in the background; and the culvert looks finished. This all prior to the infilling which took place 1907 to 1914.
Image courtesy of The Pem Holliday Collection.
My great grandfather and grandmother and their 4 children lived in Graham Street Liverton Mines at this time. Grandfather Bill Sollitt working at the mines as a painter. As a shelter from the Zeppelin Raids on Skinningrove Works during WW1 duckboards were laid the length of the culvert allowing the residents a place of safety from the bombing. As an aside one of my aunts was caught in Skinningrove during a raid and along with the other villagers sought safety in the mine. She said that most people brought in some of there prized possessions with the one family bringing in a coffin containing their recently deceased child.