some think it may lead to the church cryptjust 100 metres away, but one local historian thinks there may have been a more prosaic use for it. i think we would all like to believe, and we would all like to imagine that these are secret tunnels that connect a kind of murky underworld of residents from times gone by. i think the reality is traditionally that tunnels that have been discovered in and around warwick have had a very functional purpose, and that is principally as culverts to move waste and water out of the town, out of the roads, out of houses, into wells and into waste. whoa. laughs. you know, you still get the feeling, don t you? the next day i am checking out my work at the vr studio. it really does feel like i am back underground. it s a very lifelike experience. and there s that graffiti we couldn t see yesterday. you see on the roof here, the graffiti was made by candlelight. it says o.tibbits, 1894.
but one local historian thinks there may have been a more prosaic use for it. i think we d all like to believe, and we d all like to imagine that these are secret tunnels that connect a kind of murky underworld of residents from times gone by. i think the reality is traditionally that tunnels that have been discovered in and around warwick have had a very functional purpose, and that is principally as culverts to move waste and water out of the town, out of the roads, out of houses, into wells and into waste. whoa. laughs. you know, you still get the feeling, don t you? the next day i m checking out my work at the vr studio. it really does feel like i am back underground. it s a very lifelike experience. and there s that graffiti we couldn t see yesterday. you can see on the roof here, the graffiti was made by candlelight. it says o.tibbits, 1894. could this reallyjust
it really does feel like i am back underground. it s a very lifelike experience. and there s that graffiti we couldn t see yesterday. you can see on the roof here, the graffiti was made by candlelight. it says o.tibbits, 1894. could this reallyjust be a waste tunnel? well, our historian has never been down himself, but now it s been scanned, he can. what do you make of it? yeah so my first impressions, really, of seeing it is, of course, the two different types of construction in here. ifind it quite interesting, up above we ve got this red brick. you know, large parts of warwick were completely gutted by fire in 1694 95, and so this would certainly correlate to this being built, maybe, when the houses up above were demolished and rebuilt after the fire. of course, what really interests me is down below, this sandstone tunnel, because this looks like it s been