sewer

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...

Explored with Tallginge. It was nearly six years ago that @concreteJungle and I lifted a lid near Tulse Hill and climbed down the ladder into this Storm Relief. Ever since then I’ve wanted to return; for two different reasons. The first was that the lower reaches were inaccessible due to the...

I visited this section of Counters Creek twice. The first time with Tallginge and the second time with both @tallginge and @The_Raw. Unlike most of the old London Thames tributaries that were converted into intercepted sewers, such as the Fleet and the Tyburn, Counters Creek has little interest...

Hey everyone. I'm hoping that someone on this awesome site can help me. I'm designing a magazine feature about London's lost rivers. I have plenty of historical images from photo libraries, but nothing from down below recently. I've found some amazing low resolution images (sub-urban.com - is he...

Wandsworth and Battersea Relief Sewer (nearly the Devils Gate!) @TheVicar and I attempted a visit of Devils Gate recently. We didn’t actually get to see it, more on that later, but I suppose it’s a nod to the trailblazers of yesteryear who first put their pics from this drain on here back in...

Visited with Tallginge Crypt is a rather grand junction chamber where the Wimbledon Park Sewer and the Southern High Level Sewer #1 converge in Wandsworth. The reason for such an ornate chamber is that Crypt was originally the start of the west end of Joseph Bazalgette’s sewage aqueduct in...

Regent Street Sewer "SUPER SOAKER", London. It's that time of year for another self indulgent drain related thread, look away now :coat Frustratingly there is very little information available online about the Regent St Sewer, I suppose largely down to the actual age of it, and most of it is...

Constructed by London County Council and explored in the company of Tallginge and Seffy. The storm relief sewers of London are usually always a pleasure to explore and paying a visit to this relatively short one was another worthwhile trip. The Storm Relief begins at this reasonably sized CSO...

Kings Scholars Pond Sewer (aka The Lost River Tyburn) The River Tyburn is one of the three big lost rivers north of The Thames, the other two being The Fleet and The Westbourne. Before 1815 most of London’s houses had cesspits, emptied by nightmen and it was an offence to discharge sewerage...