drain

Crypt, London. Visited solo. I began exploring drains in the latter part of 2023, and with London being easy to get to by train from me, it's about time I finally lost my London sewer virginity! Realistically, despite the odd dabble here and there, I was deliberately holding myself back from...

Apologies for the brevity of this one, I spent most of the time I had trying to wrench the manhole open. The Boscombe Stream or Boscombe Bourne is a watercourse that rises from a spring beneath Bournemouth station's northern car park and flows east beneath Knyveton Gardens and Spencer Gardens...

Explored with @cattos mc budget on the first visit, and solo on the second. After seeing a photo of this drain's outfall on a pollution report - hmm - I immediately tasked myself with locating it, as it looked quite appealing. An initial visit to pinpoint its location and check accessibility...

Having exploded most of the system, reaching the plug hole. The concrete box section that feeds it, isn't accessible without equipment. From looking at other reports, I see others have abseiled down there? I'm just curious to know where this leads, and where the water intake is coming from.

Explored with @cattos mc budget. Just another one of London's ubiquitous concrete box culverts, which this time seems to be someone's personal art gallery. :D Our main goal of the day was to locate a storm drain in Southall, which we did, but we had some time to spare afterwards. So we got the...

The drain was built in the 1980s, as Warrington is prone to flooding, it spans over 4 miles. After two days of dry weather I decided to venture into the storm drain by the outfall. Water levels were quite low and the speed of the stream and levels stayed the same throughout my couple of hours...

Visited with @cattos mc budget. Waking early on our fourth and final day of drains in Manchester, we planned to visit UMIST and Hulme Flume's Little Brother first, a culvert and CSO on the Medlock in city centre. Unfortunately, due to "unforeseen circumstances", we bailed on this idea. Despite...

Ok, it's not summer for another month in Australia but you get what I mean. Part 1 of A Walk Through Dweller's Tomb, part 2 next Friday then a new walk every 2 weeks. Please enjoy.

Visited with @cattos mc budget and my mum. Three and a half days of solid drain exploring in MANCUNIUM. :D Back in 2024 during the May half term, me and some of my family visited Manchester for a few days, which for me, was primarily to see some of its drains. But that was before I got into...

"Brown Source" (Explored with the usual team) As @Ojay made a much more informative report than me, Ill cut straight to the chase and get on with the photos! If you want some background on this site, check out his report here. The culvert outfalls somewhere in the North East of Manchester via a...

Introduction One from the backlog that me and @JakeV50 visited a while back. It was nice to see something different, as this is unlike our usual stuff, we were expecting a little more but was still a nice stop off nevertheless. Information & History Eyebrook Reservoir is a Site of Special...

Explored in the good company of concreteJungle. It appears that this watercourse was originally known as the Sheep Washers Brook, but has for a very long time been known by locals as the Devil’s Hole. Several years ago the sewer portion of the drain was given the name Shatterproof possibly...

Months ago, whilst wading along the river near sherborne station, I spotted the exit point of a drainage system. I recently finally got round to having a look-see, see how far I could get along the tunnel. The first bit was nice and roomy though still a crawl job. There were a couple of big...

I took two recent trips down to bunker in the past few weeks. First one with @stranton for a gentle plod, then we met up again Friday evening with the addition of @GRONK with the aim of reaching the 'plug hole'. 'Built in the 1980's the system spans for over 3.5miles made up mainly of RCP'...

This video was one of my favourite SydClan videos.