Category Archives: drains

Behold: I am your Stair Master

A comedy boat trip, putrid slippery mud and shoals of crazed fish lay below the stairs.

Anger Management

Finding this place took a long time, entry required an ingenious combination of talents, and the reward was one of the most interesting and varied tunnels I’ve ever seen with countless straw stalactites and a treacle coloured floor.

have you seen my otter?

31 May ’12

Half a mile into the Frome culvert we passed a mud beach on which a gigantic otter lay. The creature led us all the way down to the Stonegate screen.

IDM 2012

29 Feb ’12

All that matters is you Go In Big Drains…

Frome Here To There

14 Feb ’12

An afternoon splashing around under Bristol, from the grimness of the Northern Foul Water Interceptor to the expansive Frome culverts.

Sub T

9 Feb ’12

Taunton has an underworld – who’d have thought it! The newly-christened Law and Order culvert (owing to the pillars of the establishment under which it passess) is only short, but packs in several different features along it’s length. A first … Continue reading →

Below the vortex

15 May ’11

…above the stilling basin. Big ups to Eotech.

Sliced and Diced

20 Sep ’10

The New Cut, from inside the Dreadnought.

Suffer the children to come unto me

31 Jul ’10

sayeth the Orbz.. Agent Nut venturing somewhat unwillingly down Rednought, Brisitol.

Captain Bird’s Eye’s Flo Selecta

30 Jul ’10

A trip along the Markeaton Interceptor storm drain, dubbed “Captain Birds Eye’s Flo Selecta” by the original explorers. It had been a long time since I last explored a Derby drain (1984 to be exact!).

Dreadzone

18 Jul ’10

Dreadnought, aka the Malago stormwater interceptor. Spungletrumpet heading up towards the sewage overflow. More…