East Wanks, Swinton
Explored with ViralEye, March 2013
After a night of disappointing tiny pipes too small to get through we settled for this little culvert that I've had my eye on for a while. It runs under the East Lancs road and is quite featureless, hence giving it a suitable name
Originally built in 1929 at the time of the construction of the East Lancs road...
The main construction is square concrete box just big enough to stand in.....
Theres a few twists and turns before arriving at the only inspection chamber...
which has a small 3' RCP flowing into it that ViralEye chanced a crawl up to find only a manhole shaft at the end....
Through the chamber, the box continues...
...arriving at the only other manhole shaft...
followed by even more boxy goodness...
...which then changes to a section of 5' RCP...
Once in the RCP we heard the rushing of water so was hoping for another chamber or even a water fall but it was not to be, it was the partially blocked and grilled infall...
Not the most interesting drain in the world, but we still managed a good few hours under there playing around with the lighting
Explored with ViralEye, March 2013
After a night of disappointing tiny pipes too small to get through we settled for this little culvert that I've had my eye on for a while. It runs under the East Lancs road and is quite featureless, hence giving it a suitable name
Originally built in 1929 at the time of the construction of the East Lancs road...
The main construction is square concrete box just big enough to stand in.....
Theres a few twists and turns before arriving at the only inspection chamber...
which has a small 3' RCP flowing into it that ViralEye chanced a crawl up to find only a manhole shaft at the end....
Through the chamber, the box continues...
...arriving at the only other manhole shaft...
followed by even more boxy goodness...
...which then changes to a section of 5' RCP...
Once in the RCP we heard the rushing of water so was hoping for another chamber or even a water fall but it was not to be, it was the partially blocked and grilled infall...
Not the most interesting drain in the world, but we still managed a good few hours under there playing around with the lighting
