We came to a small grill which we had to limbo under to get into the pipe. It started off as a concrete pipe before opening into a small chamber and splitting into two oval brick pipes. We headed down the left side and after a bit of walking they converged into one with a [...]

As we pulled up to “The works” we had a lot of nosey locals staring at us all simultaneously reaching for their phones. Now our entrance was on the other side of the river which we made a complete meal getting over it either being stopped by deep water of walls to high. It took [...]

Our first target on the manc-fester road trip. After setting off from the south and 5 hours driving we ended up at the reservoir near Gorton and headed towards our entrance. We passed what seemed like two massive railway vents. We climbed up and had a look down we couldn’t even see the bottom so [...]

A little bit of a lucky find. We had no idea it was there and our original intention was to explore the northern reaches of the Ravensbourne, which until now had been unexplored due to wader problems.

Was in a very bored mood and having been here a few months ago i thought it would be good to go back to my local, get some photos and explore the rest, neither of us were expecting what we found.

The first drain we ever explored. We visited the Wandle drains in two parts. The first being the easier walk in relief in the southern districts and the second being the harder entry heavy as hell manhole in the west.