Optimus Prime was first discovered by Userscott and Stepping lightly whilst on there quest for Manchester’s underground crypts and chamber, but surprisingly enough they never really thought twice about the monster tunnel we stood in. It was always just a means to an end.

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.

Its been a rather long time coming. Ive sat at my computer trawling through report after report of people visiting the Arches. Saying to myself, right I’m going this week. Well fast forward to today and a good seven months had passed.

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 [...]