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Slim Pickings, Manchester - November 2016
Slim Pickings is a combined sewer overflow in Manchester that outfalls to the River Medlock, and has some of the best brickwork I have seen. A 12-minute walk through some 2m RCP takes us to the brick...
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Cornbrook, Manchester - June 2010
Corn brook, Manchester - Traversed End to End by Ojay & Thompski. SPONSORED BY LOL First things first, a bit of a bone of contention here, as despite some of the crazy shit that has taken place I...
View ArticleThe Shortcliff Series - Leicestershire [Nov 2016]
The Shortcliff Brook runs from the Leicestershire countryside, and ultimately, after merging into other watercourses, flows into the town of Loughborough. Along its course the brook flows beneath the...
View ArticleCarr Brook - Bramhall - December 2016
Certainly not a ‘full’ report, and no pictures of any substance I’m afraid. I’ll stick it in the piccy bank for reference mainly. No problem if you want to move it elsewhere. A few years back, what I...
View ArticleSherbourne culverts, Coventry, December 2016
The Sherbourne rises at Hawkes End in Allesley, heads east passing through 2 culverts beneath Coventry city merging with the sowe at Baginton by the A45 road length of about 8 miles. The culverts start...
View ArticleFaverdale Black Path, Darlington - December 2016
History Faverdale is a northern suburb of Darlington in County Durham, and is well known for being the site of a large industrial estate. Although the area was rural until the twentieth century, when a...
View ArticleLeen culverts, Nottingham, December 2016
A lot of time & dedication went in this lot, during 2 consecutive days saying that the tram became a useful tool. There's some nice features along a mainly concrete structure, including 2 sumps one...
View ArticleOuseburn Culvert/Shelter, Newcastle - January 2016
History The Ouseburn Culvert provides an interesting counterpoint to the nearby Victoria Tunnel, for while the latter was described during the Second World War as the worst air raid shelter in Britain,...
View ArticleBelgrave 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...
View ArticleBusy 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,...
View ArticleRiver Rea, Birmingham - July 2016
My shitty van had decided to overheat so I managed to limp it off the duel carriageway and I realized that I was just upp the road from this section of the River Rea. I'm surprised this doesn't get...
View ArticleLemon 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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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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Canal Basin & Swanswell Park Overflows, Coventry, December 2016
I was originally gonna put this together with an earlier thread, but decided on 2 separate threads & I wasn't 100% on either infall but believe them too be as the thread name says, both outfall in...
View ArticleDragons Tooth, Manchester - March 2012.
Dragons Tooth, Manchester My day of draining continued, and after a couple of fails and much driving/walking about I headed back to a place I had once recced for a closer look Last time I was here it...
View ArticleCold Turkey - Saddleworth - January 2017
Cold Turkey - Saddleworth First explore of the new year, and a very enjoyable one too. Seem to have had a quiet time recently, explored a lot of mines in the Lake District in August; but managed to...
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Big Humpty - Manchester - January 2017
Big Humpty - Manchester This is a relatively short culverted section of the River Medlock, but it's big, wide and egg shaped, hence the name. One of these places I know I should have done for years,...
View ArticleBunker, Warrington - May 2016
The first storm drains we have explored & it was a bit of a challenge if I must say, firstly we didn't really know were to start, a few searches online and we found a much easier access point...
View ArticleWorsley Brook Culvert (Old Worsley), Manchester - December 2016
History Once part of Lancashire, Worsley is a small town in Greater Manchester, England. It is first mentioned in the Great Rolls of the Pipe (a collection of financial records maintained by the...
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