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Velociraptor, Manchester - June 2012.

Velociraptor, Manchester Ojay/Camera Shy Essentially a CSO/Screened Storm overflow located on the outskirts of Manchester, which connects to one of it's lesser brooks Not the most inspiring of places,...

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Loddington Culvert - Leics - August 2016

This was the first stop of the day, and a rather impressive structure it is. Having checked out the maps beforehand it was pretty straight forward to locate, and the water level was low so no problems...

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Supercharger A & B, Manchester - August 2016

Supercharger A and Supercharger B are culverted sections of the Gore Brook, separated by a short unculverted section and a railway bridge. Entering at the infall of Supercharger A takes us through a...

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GlenBooth Reservour Overflow, Sept 2013

Nothing worse than having to bodge together a way out because some filthy pikey cunt has nicked the ladders I had a job down the road then a job so decided to pop in to check the spillway out Submerged...

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Alum House Brook, Darwen - Aug 2016

If anyone from Darwen council gets to see these pictures you need to get a team down here to sort it out before India Mill collapses into the culvert. I've not seen any reports from here before and...

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Busy Bees, Leicester - August 2016

Lubbesthorpe Brook used to run through some fields here. Then 20 odd years ago they diverted the brook through an rcp and built the Meridian Leisure Park on top. We’ve looked at this a couple of times,...

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Dawdon Burn Culvert, Seaham, Durham - June '16

Explored with Urban Caving On our way back from a weekend visiting @AuntieKnickers & @The Stig we decided to follow a few leads along the way. After a run of fails, we had this one on the last of...

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Dumm & Dumm-err-er, Peterborough - August 2016

Description & History After nipping to p'boro a few weeks before with @Keve we happened upon this one but had issues getting to the darn thing. So Myself and @KM_Punk popped back and this time...

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Beck Valley Storm Water culvert, Nottingham, September 2016

A 1.7 mile culvert which forms the outflow for several sewers & surface runoff, discharging untreated sewerage in the trent during bad condition. The inflow is unknown but at 1.4 miles commences as...

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Buried Discharge, Bury - September 2016

Situated on an overgrown bank of the River Irwell in Bury is the concrete outfall of this CSO. About 10 metres in is a small inspection chamber containing a fair amount of calcium deposits caused by...

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Lemon Quay Culvert, Truro - August 2016

Truro once had a bustling port to deal with shipments of locally mined tin and copper. At some point in the 18th century, it moved from its original medieval site, in the shadow of the town's castle,...

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Daventry reservoir - Sept 2016

I stopped off for a wee and spotted the large concrete spillway across the res, it looked quite promising so I decided to have a look. Climbing in the top chamber was simple enough and I soon realized...

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Gorton falls

We visited the gorton falls This is a 2 mile culvert which carries the Gore brook across and around Gorton high / low reservoirs, discharge from the reservoirs exits via a spillway, 200yd culvert, then...

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Majestic Culverts - Oldham - Sept 2015

Dragged my dad underground to come and explore 3 of the 5 Culverts with me, been wanting to get down here for a while. The River Medlock comes down from the Strinesdale Reservoir into the first of five...

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Busy Bees, Leicester - August 2016

Lubbesthorpe Brook used to run through some fields here. Then 20 odd years ago they diverted the brook through an rcp and built the Meridian Leisure Park on top. We’ve looked at this a couple of times,...

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Belgrave Culvert & Evington Culvert July 2016

This was unplanned and spontaneous - I ran into @KM_Punk in town on the day and we decided to go and do some easy drains so I get the hang of exposure photography. This time I was armed with wellies...

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Moonwalker Drain - Birmingham 31/01/09

I briefly visited Moonwalker a few weeks ago but ran out of time and just took a few pics which I've included here. This time, I went back and did the whole thing. Moonwalker is huge and is the most...

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Underline, Bury - April 2016

Underline Was debating putting this up for a while as it isn't a particularly long culvert, but as it's there I thought why not? It was first discovered by Moose way before I'd even heard of draining,...

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Scottish Border's Culvert Explore.

After scanning through old maps online looking for somewhere new to explore, I came across a culvert that appeared to run through a wide embankment which automatically meant I'd have to find out more...

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Tower Dean Culvert, Scotland - November 2016

After scanning through old maps online looking for somewhere new to explore, I came across a culvert that appeared to run through a wide embankment which automatically meant I'd have to find out more...

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