macclesfield

January 2025 Visited this one with @Mr Budge, there is nothing particularly particularly special about this one but it was a nice little mooch and a good way to spend a Sunday afternoon. The body of water that runs through the culvert is actually the River Bollin which passed through the...

A concrete box type storm drain diverting the high rise of water from the River Bollin passing through a CSO, The main chamber is around 80 ft long with the sewage in fall around a metre and a half in diameter, There are two storm guard overflow screens fitted each side to deter any 'Floatables'...

Brief History The River Bollin in Macclesfield flows under the railway line in a couple of culverts, the largest a brick and stone arch around 270m long. There's a few small tunnels that used to connect in likely from disused mills, sadly these are mostly blocked off. At one point in time it...

Brief History The official opening in February 1909 marked the start of eight decades for this school but was forced to close in 1990, the site lay empty and neglected for two years until the Kings school foundation bought it for its new girls division. The King's schools 2020 development plans...

So an odd one in this in that having explored several nearby abandoned barns in the area and despite having walked nearby many times i never actually knew this was even here. What started off as a family walk turned into a great impromptu explore but those unexpected finds are often the best...

King’s School: Fence Avenue Read @UrbandonedTeam 's part 1 here for the following to make sense: Part 1 After completing the Cumberland Street campus, we set off home and began to look through pictures and history getting clued up on the site and it’s past. It was then that I came across an...

King's School: Cumberland St The historic King's School was founded in 1502 within the Church of St Michael and All Angels in Macclesfield. The priest-schoolmaster and free school were to be maintained by an original endowment of £10 a year and seventeen feoffees were appointed, all local...

After checking out Flushed Away with @concreteJungle in the summer, it would have been wrong not to have paid a quick visit to the nearby underground tourist attraction that is Arghi Barghi. Named after the large furniture shop close to the culvert outfall. It’s nothing particularly amazing but...

I’d been interested in having a butcher’s at this one for about 10 years or so, ever since JD posted up a photo of it on sub-urban.com Earlier this year there had been some discussions about this place. The lockdown then came along, and with the drains in London beckoning I forgot about it...

Little bit bored and with an hour spare this afternoon I decided to check out an old mill that is local to me. History; This silk weaving mill was built in 1823. The mill was originally built for the hand processing of silk. An engine house (which no longer survives intact) was added to the...

I dont know the history of this one and to be honest it wasn't worth finding it out. I didnt realise it was so bad until I was over the wall but I had a look around anyway and post up here as an update more than an explore. Stairs were well gone and upstairs now owned by the pigeons so did what...

Visited mid June 2020. Opened in 1965 and closed in 1968. Recent report of it being welded shut is total bullshit, nothing has been done with that lid for surely at least 50 years, even the hinges are rusted away. Nice to see some original bits left and sad to see others destroyed. Smelly and...

Visited the site last week and the lid is now welded shut.

So, been looking into this all week and it's absolutely doing my head in. I think I have roughly worked out where it might be judging from the colour of the concrete in other posts and some talk about scrambling through overgrowth, I might have another area to look in too. Anyone got any...

Arghi Barghi, Macclesfield (ignore the following five paragraphs if you want pictures/ info on the above. I will not repeat this in the dozen or so similar reports I’d like to show you) Right, well most of yers have seen me best stuff, so I’m going to start posting some of the rest. It’s no...