Compared to the 106 or Micra sleeping in the Toyota was like a 4 poster bed. Silky drapes, quilts covered in roses and a chocolate left on your pillow every night. Well ok maybe not, but at the very least i was able to stretch my legs out without having to wrap them between the pedals. However no matter which car we chose i always seem to wake up the same way, with my face stuck to the window. Such is the plight of someone too cheap to pay for a hostel. Oh well its 5am, we were somewhere south of Manchester and it was raining, heavily. Hurray for British summers.

It was still raining heavily and during the drive over it got so bad i had to pull over and stop. Visibility was zero, thunder and lightning flashed and roared in the skies above and the window wipers couldn’t cope. Even if we managed to get close enough i wasn’t about to walk across a waterlogged field in this, regardless of the fact i would be wearing waders.

Its been a while since i last ventured under London, problem is Ive visited most of the large diameter sewers now leaving only the smaller, unnamed and insignificant ones. While some swear by it, personally, unless there’s a good reason, i dislike the idea of stumbling and sloshing down small diameter pipes, you always end up soaked and dirty, there is a higher chance of gas due to less ventilation and most importantly, you have little chance of finding anything substantial.

For a while now, archive photographs of a redbrick chamber on the Counters Creek have drifted in and out of discussion. As a rule interceptors have always been considered “off limits”, and Counters Creek is one of them. A fast flowing, liquid nightmare, fudge dragon of death. Couldn’t hurt to take a peek.

Officially Known as the “Brixton Storm Relief Sewer” (formerly “Effra Relief Sewer”) and constructed around 1890, it is rumored to have been built along the original course of the River Effra, the latter of which terminates into High Level Sewer No*1 at the overflow. We had previously tried to access the Brixton Relief via the Effra Main Line Sewer itself, unfortunately due to the speed and volume at its mid point, progression this way would have been suicide. As a result we went back to the drawing board and with a little research, located an access point near its outfall in Vauxhall.

Well, accidentally deleted what i wrote, back soon?