Report - Beck Valley Culvert, Nottingham - July '16

[Punk]

Explored with @UrbanCaving

History


Following Joseph Bazalgette's achievements with London's sewer systems, Nottingham realised that they needed one themselves. One part of this was the Beck Valley Culvert. It carries water, and a few CSOs, for a few miles under the eastern part of the city. Built in 1883/84 by Footing and Barry Contractors, it is almost entirely brick.

Explore

While I was looking forward to spending some quality time with my xbox, I received a message from UC, "Fancy trying Beck Valley tonight"
"Ow, ow, your twisting my arm"
Two hours later we were parked close to the outfall, putting our waders on.
After a brief conversation with a runner, and a panic when my waders breached, just when I remembered that my mobile was still in my pocket. We were in.
And boy was she gorgeous.

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Cheers for Looking​

 

[WildBoyz]

Brick porn at its finest.

 

[The Wombat]

Well done for getting this done; some lovely features in there.
I remember seeing this on the forum a few years back

 

[UrbanCaving]

Was a very good night and some nice Brick too you caught it well mate.

 

[Miss Mayhem]

amazing stuff, you have captured it beautifully

 

[paulpowers]

Nice pics

It's a cracking drain but the way in is a bit moist

 

[tweek]

Looks lush.

 

[Snake Oil]

that is a lot of bricks!

 

[TheVicar]

This is an awesome drain that sees very few visitors.
I remember it being very deep for the first 100m or so but worth it for the huge quantity of two tone brickwork!