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Visited with thenewmendoza :thumb:
Ive been wanting to do this drain for a long time, we had a failed mission infact about 4 weeks ago, so we did foxdenton drain instead!!!
anyhow the fails were due to the council, kindly fiting a HUGE padlocked stell gate over the E/E point, so it was a nogo
anyhow, about a week ago i saw a report from here on here, hmmmmmmmmm i thought, i wonder if...................
anyhow jump on a few days and MENDO had done a report on it on NWE!!! 5hit i thought, id better do this quick then as it wont be long before they lock it again!!!
so a quick text to mendo last night, and the plans were in place!!
all i can say abouthtis place is WOW, its really amazing inside, it changes shape every 50 yards, its everything from cathedral tall to stooping low, RCP, bricks, stone and iron pipes all make this place up, i think it should be renamed to HEINZ drain 'cos it realy has got 57 varieties!!
anyhow, enough of my warbling, and on with the pics!!!
mendo in a REALLY low section wich is about as far up the pipe as you can get, there is only one way in/out in this one as its a shrinker!!
brick bit
inverted agg shaped brick bit!! apparently this leads to a sewr outfall but the pipe is small, i really didnt fancy a crawl up here
brick pipe opening up into stone
stone chamber, the tallest bits of the drain!!
iron ceeling
big stone, to little stone!!
BIG, inverted brick egg
looking from the big brick egg to the next stone pipe section
brick egg to RCP!!
this bit was REALLY stoopy, it looked like the roof was caving in!!
looking toward the exit!!!
i think the most amazing thing about this place is the depth underground, we were nearly 60' below the surface at one point, wich in a drain in this condition is quite a scary thought
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Ive been wanting to do this drain for a long time, we had a failed mission infact about 4 weeks ago, so we did foxdenton drain instead!!!
anyhow the fails were due to the council, kindly fiting a HUGE padlocked stell gate over the E/E point, so it was a nogo
anyhow, about a week ago i saw a report from here on here, hmmmmmmmmm i thought, i wonder if...................
anyhow jump on a few days and MENDO had done a report on it on NWE!!! 5hit i thought, id better do this quick then as it wont be long before they lock it again!!!
so a quick text to mendo last night, and the plans were in place!!
all i can say abouthtis place is WOW, its really amazing inside, it changes shape every 50 yards, its everything from cathedral tall to stooping low, RCP, bricks, stone and iron pipes all make this place up, i think it should be renamed to HEINZ drain 'cos it realy has got 57 varieties!!
anyhow, enough of my warbling, and on with the pics!!!
mendo in a REALLY low section wich is about as far up the pipe as you can get, there is only one way in/out in this one as its a shrinker!!
brick bit
inverted agg shaped brick bit!! apparently this leads to a sewr outfall but the pipe is small, i really didnt fancy a crawl up here
brick pipe opening up into stone
stone chamber, the tallest bits of the drain!!
iron ceeling
big stone, to little stone!!
BIG, inverted brick egg
looking from the big brick egg to the next stone pipe section
brick egg to RCP!!
this bit was REALLY stoopy, it looked like the roof was caving in!!
looking toward the exit!!!
i think the most amazing thing about this place is the depth underground, we were nearly 60' below the surface at one point, wich in a drain in this condition is quite a scary thought
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