A section of this was originally reported by Styru in 2013...
The only snippet of history I could find, is that it was locally named Shit Brook, ie open sewer. In parts it still smells fresh so nothing seems to have changed really. There's also a few sections where the construction seems to reinforce this, with a central channel typically used for these purposes.
The culvert is in 4 sections, it seems. The Southern section explored by Styru, a Central section, a section so small it's not worth mentioning, and a Northern section.
The first explore was the Southern section, with Styru and The Queen...
Sewer overflow chamber...
and the sewer itself, taken from next to the screen machine thing...
and at the other end of the culvert...
So a few weeks later Styru and myself went back to do the Central section...
This is some of the construction I thought was particularly old...
Don't know what this was...
You can't really tell, but this was quite a steep slope with handholds...
Me lighting it up...
Styru lighting me up...
I love this shot...
This section was notable by the number of different constructions, quite visible here...
It was dark when we got out...
Finally I went to see the Northern section. A very stoopy concrete pipe grated at one end, and stinking of fresh at the other, with nice grey-brown effluent froth, so I gave that a miss for being fetid and backbreaking.
The only snippet of history I could find, is that it was locally named Shit Brook, ie open sewer. In parts it still smells fresh so nothing seems to have changed really. There's also a few sections where the construction seems to reinforce this, with a central channel typically used for these purposes.
The culvert is in 4 sections, it seems. The Southern section explored by Styru, a Central section, a section so small it's not worth mentioning, and a Northern section.
The first explore was the Southern section, with Styru and The Queen...
Sewer overflow chamber...
and the sewer itself, taken from next to the screen machine thing...
and at the other end of the culvert...
So a few weeks later Styru and myself went back to do the Central section...
This is some of the construction I thought was particularly old...
Don't know what this was...
You can't really tell, but this was quite a steep slope with handholds...
Me lighting it up...
Styru lighting me up...
I love this shot...
This section was notable by the number of different constructions, quite visible here...
It was dark when we got out...
Finally I went to see the Northern section. A very stoopy concrete pipe grated at one end, and stinking of fresh at the other, with nice grey-brown effluent froth, so I gave that a miss for being fetid and backbreaking.
