How man renovating shop stumbled upon 'greatest discovery' which he thought was a 'rat hole'
dailyrecord.co.ukA man renovating a shop stumbled upon the area's 'greatest discovery', which he initially thought was a 'rat hole'. Jeff Pearce found a 240-year old well shaft whilst carrying work out on the basement of the property.
The Liverpool Echo reports that back in 2001, the businessman was in the process of renovating his fashion store, Jeffs. The shop, in Liverpool City Centre, would soon go down in history when he made an amazing discovery.Speaking to the BBC, Jeff recalled the day that he made the historic find underneath his establishment.
He said:"I had about eight men working with me in the basement in the dark and there was this little hole that kept appearing on the floor over a period of three or four days."I was convinced it was a little rat hole, but it wouldn’t fill in.
I made it bigger and shone the torch down and all I could see for 35, 40 feet was water."The following morning inspectors for the Building Regulations came from the Liverpool Corporation.
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