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The tunnels under New Brighton's arcades
The 鈥榰nderground grotto鈥� which produced machine gun bullets during WW2.
During the Second World War, a vault beneath the arcades in New Brighton housed 200 women who made vital small armaments for the war effort.
In 1944, a national newspaper report on the 鈥榰nderground grotto鈥� at a 鈥榥orth-west seaside town鈥� described how the female war workers turned out hundreds of thousands of machine gun bullets a week while holiday makers and day trippers strolled, oblivious, along the promenade above.
Believed to be one of a kind in the north of England, you can now see the tunnels where the women worked in eight-hour shifts below ground, keeping the machines running around the clock.
