Macro, Bradford. What an impressive mix of old and new, including several truly impressive pieces of British architecture and design. There is only one downside to all this. Being a culvert in the north, the floors once constructed with stone or brick have been ripped up during storms and heavy rainfall and now lay in a mess, an assault course to the unwary traveler. One that proved to much for me the first time around. Earning me the timely badge of “Teh Otter”.

You should know of Sub-Urban by now, the original UK sewer explorers. Given their experience and the array of sewers theyve explored, visiting one that even they found difficult to cope with sets your expectations for the worst, a night of filth beyond your wildest dreams.

Colossus of the south. A major storm and drain network located in Brighton which is built on two levels. The main and older section above containing the sewers and storm relief’s. The lower level being a 3km storage tunnel buried more then 100ft beneath Brighton’s coast. The two networks are linked together via a “Glory hole”, a monster plughole known as “Eddies Vortex” which drops the flow down into the storage tunnel.

London once more, its been a while since ive had a decent drain explore here. Having recently visited the big smoke to try out new leads which all proved to be something already explored or far far to deep to get anywhere. So today plans where made to visit Stoop’s Limit drain and the upper parts of the Fleet. Both of which were instantly pushed back once more and off we ventured to Supersoaker, AKA the Regents Street Sewer.

When i was young i had been to Bewl Water over 30 times or so and each time i passed the vortex and tower i never thought anything more of it apart from oooh what is that. But now as my interests have changed and im more familiar with the underground and happened to be in the area with Snappel i thought it would be worth a quick look.

After the visit to Bewl Water’s Overflow, myself and Snappel headed to another pit of nautical fun in Ardingly. While not as deep nor as long as Bewl’s its horseshoe design at least made it different.