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I took a look at this one sometime ago, but sadly the water levells have been WAY to high for further exploration, so last night mendo texted me to ask if i wanted to come out to play, so i said yes, lets go to Rochdale and look at that culvert!!
it looks a big wide thing, but the water also looks DEEP, but as we were to find out, this is not the case
anyhow, never having seen a report from this location, we had to think of a name, as it was my lead i came up with the name "Big Butts" simple name really as the culvert runs under the area known as "the butts" in rochdale, and the culvert is BIG!!
anyhow, after an easy access we wondered into the beast...........
most of the culvert is spraycreted to protect the MASSIVE support work underneath the streets
but its not without its features, this lovellly stone inverted egg sidepipe for example
and these 2 stoopy but walkable pipes
the left hand one is an RCP that runs DEAD straight for a million miles under rochdale, and judging by the smell leads to a sewage oveflow chamber somewhere, and the brick one twists and turns and gets narrower and narrower we couldnt really be arsed going further, but someone will one day!!
the right hand brick pipe
perhaps the most striking feature from under rochdale is this stone bridge, 3 arches wide and a REAL suprise!!
the stonework was really something, and i spent ages taking pics of it!!
a little further upstream, and under ANOTHER buried bridge, this one built of iron
we came accross this large brick inverted egg!!
well it would be rude not to, so up we went!! and found a rather nice sewage overflow chamber complete with processor!! woo hoo!!
anyhow, we spent a good while underground and made our way out, with a last few pics!!
this turned out to be a BRILLIANT explore, and im chuffed i have finally got to name my own culvert!!!
B..
it looks a big wide thing, but the water also looks DEEP, but as we were to find out, this is not the case
anyhow, never having seen a report from this location, we had to think of a name, as it was my lead i came up with the name "Big Butts" simple name really as the culvert runs under the area known as "the butts" in rochdale, and the culvert is BIG!!
anyhow, after an easy access we wondered into the beast...........
most of the culvert is spraycreted to protect the MASSIVE support work underneath the streets
but its not without its features, this lovellly stone inverted egg sidepipe for example
and these 2 stoopy but walkable pipes
the left hand one is an RCP that runs DEAD straight for a million miles under rochdale, and judging by the smell leads to a sewage oveflow chamber somewhere, and the brick one twists and turns and gets narrower and narrower we couldnt really be arsed going further, but someone will one day!!
the right hand brick pipe
perhaps the most striking feature from under rochdale is this stone bridge, 3 arches wide and a REAL suprise!!
the stonework was really something, and i spent ages taking pics of it!!
a little further upstream, and under ANOTHER buried bridge, this one built of iron
we came accross this large brick inverted egg!!
well it would be rude not to, so up we went!! and found a rather nice sewage overflow chamber complete with processor!! woo hoo!!
anyhow, we spent a good while underground and made our way out, with a last few pics!!
this turned out to be a BRILLIANT explore, and im chuffed i have finally got to name my own culvert!!!
B..
