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The merging of the Bower brook & Hole Bottom brook at Chadderton forms the moss brook, which continues for 3.7 miles merging with the Irk at Collyhurst. Brown source is one of 5 culverts along the moss brook, consisting of stone, brick & concrete sections. Bower brook continues towards the...

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...

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...

This drain is one I have explored several times over the last twelve years despite only having traversed the upper half of the system. This visit with @Llama and @obscureserenity didn’t change that as the focus was on seeing the more modern northerly addition to the drain which was constructed...

I thought I’d do this report as I’ve not posted one for a while and also because these sewer overflows don’t warrant individual reports. So here are five of them, all of which are all roughly within half a mile along the Northern High Level Sewer which was constructed in 1859. Pics are in the...

Explored with Llama. The River Walbrook, like a number of the former tributaries of the River Thames, was gradually covered over and culverted during the past few centuries and incorporated into London's sewer network. A couple of interesting articles on the Walbrook can be found here and...

I'll try and keep this concise, as I'm sure many of you are already familiar with this place from older reports. History: Once a tributary of the Thames called "The River Walbrook", used by Romans as a freshwater source for settlements in the days when London was known as Londinium, later...

Inhospitable + The Works (explored with @Ojay , @MartyZero and a non-member) Inhospitable is a (as the crow flies) 1 and a half kilometer long culvert on the Moss Brook. This drain includes a peculiar feature, called The Works (you will see why its called that soon). The Explore We got to the...

Old Worsley Explored/Photographed with @Ojay and @MartyZero To start off this was quite a rushed and dramatic explore, certainly one of the more mission impossible type explores with the unpredictable weather this month! Photos are mainly by @Ojay and @MartyZero and screen grabs from footage I...

River Fleet sewer (overflow chamber) Hello, about 2 years i looked a some enter to a river Fleet sewer and this is my first visit with a camera to film some video.

Hi all, new to this forum so apologies if this has been covered extensively! I'm in the process of writing a new book, part of which will be set in the London sewers. I'm trying to find an organisation that might allow me into the sewers so I can get a feel for it, see how it works etc. I'd...

History: Clapham Storm Relief, or more commonly dubbed "Lucky Charms Drain" makes up just one of the many underground sewer networks across the capital, and was constructed during the late 1800s. During the 19th century, Sir Joseph Bazalgette designed the modern-day sewer system, in response to...

Ranelagh Sewer (formally the River Westbourne) The Ranelagh has taken me longer to complete than any of London’s other “lost rivers”. As you’d expect, the sewer roughly follows the course of the old river and it is the western-most of the three rivers that rise from Hampstead Heath, the other...

Explored on Boxing Day with Tallginge. The Brixton Storm Relief Sewer follows the original path of the River Effra. It begins below the Brixton Road close to the Angell Town Housing Estate. From here it runs north towards The Oval cricket ground and then west to Vauxhall where it terminates at...

River Effra (Sewer) - A Decade Of Southern Division Associated Drainage, London 2010 -2019. Well, there's unquestionably more to everybody's favourite tourist drain 'RUBIX' which is essentially a storm relief which serves the Effra and is typically a very small piece in a fairly widespread...