Another good night of drains all around. I have been wanting to get to Birmingham for a while now but kept being sidetracked. Well this weekend i put my foot down i was going no matter what!. Unfortunately the usual suspects were busy so it looked like i was going it alone. Luckily got a [...]

Our final trip on the Manc-fester trip, we had a quick scurry to our entrance and decided it was worth a look so we kitted up, bought a few rations from a local store and headed on down. Now which way to go?

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.