London, home to the famous “Lost Rivers”, but one such river you may not have heard about is the River Moselle. Technically the Moselle is not a “Lost River”, small sections still running above-ground through parks and cemeteries.
| Moonwalker was very different to the drains so far. It was half concrete and half brick and very very tall. As we approached we could hear a rushing sound which got louder as we grew near. We eventually came to a massive slide leading down to the pipe of doom, the door above was huge [...] While draining in London, visitors always comment on how easy it is to navigate, for the most part this is true. With the exception of its lost rivers, mainline sewers in London are of a basic, single pipe affair. You tend to have your standard route from A to B, and if you want to [...] For a while now Manchester has been a dormant draining city. The initial explores seemed to satisfy all those who traveled there. The likes of Gorton Falls, Works and Processor were enough to deter any wayward worrier for exploring off the beaten track, and so it slept. Labyrinth has always been a subject of heated debate. Confusion as to its route, its integration and interaction with other sewers and also as to where the line should be drawn between itself and other systems. On a map it looks like a tangled spiders web of incomprehensibility, and with the knowledge of the area [...] Deep Ochre. If I’m honest, this was the one. I first saw it on Sub-urban back in 2006, before that i didn’t have a whole lot of interest in drains. I had seen pictures of the Westbourne and other various tunnels and culverts, but this just looked, different. |
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