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MYSTERY OF ANCIENT TUNNEL UNDER HOTEL

Submitted by The March Warden on Sat, 12/05/2009 - 20:24

From Hexham Courant

Unearthing evidence: David Taylor, the co-owner of the Centre of Britain Hotel, has used a water dowsing method to try to trace where the mystery tunnel leads.ONE of Haltwhistle’s hidden secrets is once more to be exposed to the public’s gaze.

For hotelier David Taylor is set to re-open the mysterious tunnel he discovered when he developed the Centre of Britain Hotel 13 years ago.

During extensive renovation work at the dilapidated Red Lion Hotel, a boarded up door attracted the attention of David and co-owner Grethe Kirkebjerg.

Loose rubble behind the hidden door was ex-cavated, and significant lengths of a tunnel, with several branches, were unearthed.

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