Aye Aye Cap'n, Bolton
August 2013 - Explored with ConcreteJungle and ViralEye
Outfalling into the River Croal this culvert looked inviting from the start with its stone archway and rusting roof supports. After a while the construction changes to RCP which gradually gets smaller with a very low stinky red brick tunnel off to the left in a small brick chamber. ConcreteJungle nipped up the RCP and returned with news that its a never ending shrinker so I had a look up the brick tunnel which I was hoping led to a CSO. As the roof got high enough to stoop instead of crawling on hands and knees the width shrunk to around 2'. After what seemed quite a way up I came across a small set of steps and shining my torch it lookedlike it went on forever so turned back to rejoin the others.
Thanks again to ConcreteJungle for the invite
Evil looking drain spiders.......