The architecture of the tunnel was designed by Herbert Rouse.

One of the most impressive features is the lighting column.
It is 60ft high and made from reinforced concrete and polished granite.

The columns were situated at either end of the tunnel, near to the toll booths. Today the column at the Liverpool side no longer exists.

Prior to the opening pedestrians were allowed to walk through the tunnel to admire the construction in aid of charity, something that still happens to this day.

Steve Noonan contributes that:

Reading about the Tunnel and the article on the granite lighting column which no longer exists on the Liverpool side, you may be interested to know its whereabouts.

My father worked for 'Liverpool Corporation' in the 60's in the Cleansing Yard at St Domingo Lane, Everton.

The granite pieces where transported and buried at the back of the yard where there once existed an old quarry. Old setts and cobbles, stone, aggregate etc where deposited here along with the Tunnel column. I have recently discovered that the old Toll Booths where also placed here.

The site where it is buried is as mentioned before the old 'Corporation Cleansing Yard' which is on the site of 'Cobbs Quarry' an old sandstone quarry which could still be found on the 1906 Ordanance survey map.

Apparently behind the cleansing offices there stood an old Refuse Destructor and from this the material brought and burnt went into the quarry as fill material. When this became redundant it was also broken down and placed in the quarry!

17 men died during the construction of the tunnel.

This memorial was erected as part of the Queensway Tunnel Diamond Jubilee Celebrations in remembrance of those who died during its construction.