; Blount Tunnel, a rail tunnel near Blount Springs. Joseph Ruiz has recently discovered an old Victorian tunnel leading to the water tower in Gorsehill Road, and notes that there are caves in the rock behind the tower. In Portland's Victorian heyday in the second half of the 19th century, the neighborhoods near the waterfront saw the seedier side of the city's activities, with saloons, bordellos, and boardinghouses catering to the sailors and other working folk who passed through Portland looking for a night of relaxation after a day or month of hard labor. Ever since I was a boy there were rumours of Portland having a huge nuclear bunker. This joins the 1880 tunnel 70 metres from the surface, after passing beneath Shakespeare Cliff Tunnel where it has been reinforced with concrete arches. Alabama. In the early sixties, Local Historian Joseph Ruizâs former business partner Malcolm Garbutt and his wife were taken on a tour of the cellars of the old New Brighton Tower Buildings. Report - Portland Port - Underground Comms HQ (with added Breakwater extra free!) Adjacent to the junction is a timber-lined passage leading to the base of the shaft where the boring machine would have been assembled. The Portland District has one of the nation's most comprehensive and diversified civil works programs, covering most of Oregon and southwestern Washington. Unfortunately this was all legend. ; Brocks Gap Tunnel, a 900-foot-long (270 m) CSX ⦠More than 20 years after its opening, it ⦠Cliffe is a village on the Hoo Peninsula in Kent, England, reached from the Medway Towns by a three-mile (4.8 km) journey along the B2000 road.Situated upon a low chalk escarpment overlooking the Thames marshes, Cliffe offers views of Southend-on-Sea and London. The tunnel's phenomenon was first noted in the Devizes Gazette the year after building work was completed and added to a wide-held belief that Brunel was a ⦠Portland, the state's largest city and metropolitan area, was considered one of the most dangerous port cities in the world at the turn of the 20th century. So huge in fact that some conspiracy theorists suggested it was big enough for 5,000 people and the Queen herself would inhabit it if nuclear war ever broke out. The history of a 100-year-old cart emerging from a Cornish cliff. Many reported hauntings in Oregon are linked to such historic places as the Oregon Trail and early coastal communities. Portland ROTOR Bunker, Dorset. Following a precarious clear-up and some recent erosion, beach-goers have been noticing the cart and speculating how it ⦠Initially, the pilot tunnel remains in reasonable condition. The Channel Tunnel linking Britain and France holds the record for the longest undersea tunnel in the world â 50km (31 miles) long. 5th Avenue North Tunnel, Birmingham.Completed in 1909, this road tunnel runs beneath the former Birmingham Terminal Station site, now occupied by the Red Mountain Expressway. Heritage listings Victorian Heritage Inventory (VHI) Portland Pier Railway Station (H7221-0195), VHI Cliff Street Tunnel (H7221-0279), Heritage Overlay (HO) HO129 Phoenix Canariensis, HO128 Norfolk Island Pine, Victorian Aboriginal Heritage Register (VAHR) Portland Foreshore 1 (VAHR 7221-0860), Portland Foreshore 2 (VAHR 7221-0870) Codswallop. ; John H. Bankhead Tunnel, a 3,389-foot-long (1,033 m) road tunnel, US 98 under the Mobile River in Mobile. There are a number of widely reported haunted locations in the state of Oregon in the United States.