I don't where you've been sat all day but in Manchester the temperature reached a sweat-inducing 34 degress, far too hot for old Mendo, so I sought out some underground cavern of coolness, and The Works is VERY cool.
The outfall to this massive storm sewer overflow was misty as hell when I approached, and I was almost tempted to turn back 'cos I was scared
, and it was then I recalled a young nameless whipersnapper (a member on here) had explored this one wearing nought but a pair of white trainers, I felt overdressed in waders...lol
It's a huge beast of a thing, not like the culverts I've been exploring recently, the pipe must be 15ft high, and wide, and brick too!! Ace.
So, after a quick stroll up the pipe you come to a junction, the left hand pipe has been bricked up, one can't help but wonder what lies beyond it, must be something up there...
Then a couple of minutes later the stairs, hugeness abounds and I had great fun racing up and down trying to beat the self-timer on my camera (despite using a 20 seconds, it'll get me fit if nothing else...).
Up the stairs and you're in a chambery thing with another drain running through it (it's Inhospitable, looked interesting but one for another day).
Huge sluice gate, controlled by a manually operated winchy/windy thing, had a play with that, was fun!!
Before heading back down the stairs and to the outfall, it's only a short little thing but packed with features, and it's better than sweating!!
Mendo
The outfall to this massive storm sewer overflow was misty as hell when I approached, and I was almost tempted to turn back 'cos I was scared
, and it was then I recalled a young nameless whipersnapper (a member on here) had explored this one wearing nought but a pair of white trainers, I felt overdressed in waders...lol
It's a huge beast of a thing, not like the culverts I've been exploring recently, the pipe must be 15ft high, and wide, and brick too!! Ace.
So, after a quick stroll up the pipe you come to a junction, the left hand pipe has been bricked up, one can't help but wonder what lies beyond it, must be something up there...
Then a couple of minutes later the stairs, hugeness abounds and I had great fun racing up and down trying to beat the self-timer on my camera (despite using a 20 seconds, it'll get me fit if nothing else...).
Up the stairs and you're in a chambery thing with another drain running through it (it's Inhospitable, looked interesting but one for another day).
Huge sluice gate, controlled by a manually operated winchy/windy thing, had a play with that, was fun!!
Before heading back down the stairs and to the outfall, it's only a short little thing but packed with features, and it's better than sweating!!
Mendo
