Sweet leaf is a continuation of the Batley beck with the Batley bus station culvert and Monument and transporter culverts below it . Scouting on maps there looked to be a few more underground sections to explore further upstream not sure if they would be up to much ? but nothing ventured nothing gained i climbed in on Bradford road bang across from emerald street and had a nosy
should have called it stingy bastard nettle leaf as only being in a t shirt and waders the only option to gain entry is to climb through em ! ( note next time long sleeves and gloves ! )
some bird poo in here , but at least a decent size
timber floor above suggests not been culverted over that long ? moving on upstream
looking downstream next pic looking upstream
the timber beams gave it a sort of castle feel lol
after a short open air section and being nettle stung again another section of culvert appeared this time concrete box
long culvert this going under Wilton park
large manhole then infall up ahead
another open air section then under a bridge
through this then a change in styles
start of old style culvert , could hear voices above and the smell of a different kind of sweet leaf ! Not hanging around i quickly snapped a pic and went back underground
This was turning out to be an unexpected gift , Cracking culvert !
climbed out here on to Lea road then walked up to the next culverted section ( actually drove up to nearly the end and then came back downstream but it will keep things simpler if we keep the pics going upstream )
bit of a stoop and not my best pics thankfully not to long then under a small bridge before starting another larger section
looking downstream then looking up
