This is a 900m long culvert under Coatbridge, in Lanarkshire, Scotland.
The main trunk was seemingly constructed from stone, beneath the Monkland Canal Basin around 1770.
This Canal Basin still exists, within the Summerlee Heritage Museum site.
The Monkland was cut off and filled in during the 19th century, as one of the first canalised sacrificial lambs to the pyre of the railways. It still exists, filled with stagnant water, on either side of the town.
The burn still runs underneath.
Its downstream access is shared by the Coatbridge confluence i mentioned a year back. Its behind a 12ft pallisade, n a 200m walk through a boggy burn.
Its BIG.
But after another 200m, you reach an old road bridge with a 5ft clearance, n waist deep mud.
These are the pics from this lower stretch.
With such sizable offerings, we decided to look at the upstream sections.
This involved bypassing two pallisade fences, then donning gloves n shifting a half tonne of illegal fly tipping.
The upstream proved longer and more varied.
Halfway through, having encountered twice as many dead crayfish as live, we spotted the resident Otter. It kept us in site, from about 300m away at all times.
This was its staging area. Both discarded food carcasses and excretia.
Leading into a long newer stretch.
Its Scotland.
Of course, theres a fucking Corro Section!
But after all this, we reached Ground Zero, beneath the central Monkland Canal Basin.
And it was Big.
And Old.
246 years old!
Love me some huge old arches!
Cheers cunts.
Show us yer Dhurnz!
The main trunk was seemingly constructed from stone, beneath the Monkland Canal Basin around 1770.
This Canal Basin still exists, within the Summerlee Heritage Museum site.
The Monkland was cut off and filled in during the 19th century, as one of the first canalised sacrificial lambs to the pyre of the railways. It still exists, filled with stagnant water, on either side of the town.
The burn still runs underneath.
Its downstream access is shared by the Coatbridge confluence i mentioned a year back. Its behind a 12ft pallisade, n a 200m walk through a boggy burn.
Its BIG.
But after another 200m, you reach an old road bridge with a 5ft clearance, n waist deep mud.
These are the pics from this lower stretch.
With such sizable offerings, we decided to look at the upstream sections.
This involved bypassing two pallisade fences, then donning gloves n shifting a half tonne of illegal fly tipping.
The upstream proved longer and more varied.
Halfway through, having encountered twice as many dead crayfish as live, we spotted the resident Otter. It kept us in site, from about 300m away at all times.
This was its staging area. Both discarded food carcasses and excretia.
Leading into a long newer stretch.
Its Scotland.
Of course, theres a fucking Corro Section!
But after all this, we reached Ground Zero, beneath the central Monkland Canal Basin.
And it was Big.
And Old.
246 years old!
Love me some huge old arches!
Cheers cunts.
Show us yer Dhurnz!
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