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 [...]

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.

We arrived around 9ish after i got completly lost and ended up god knows where. Went to our manhole pulled up our waders and went down.

Resident Eelville, also known as the “Wandle Valley Relief” which also incorporates the Wandle Valley Sewer network and two smaller tunnels which didn’t even merit a name. The pipe runs from the lower sections of tooting connecting into the Streatham Relief all the way up to Wandsworth where it overflows into the Wandle, although all [...]

Being part of an international community, you occasionally hear tales of run ins with animals. Raccoons, badgers, snakes, kangaroo’s, drop bears (maybe), but in London, all we have is rats.