Report - Cornbrook Manchester - Rebooted, May 2019.

[Lord Oort]

Cracking pics and read as usual mate.

 

[toby]

Fuck me, that's excellent. ta.

 

[WB]

lol fuck me OJ, I thought you were nuts for going down it the first time!
Could you not convince @thompski to re-visit?

Fair play R kid! :

 

[Snake Oil]

Holy fuck, epic stuff from the two of you!

.....and I'll remind you of this (again!) next time you take the piss out of Boltons st00piness!

 

[Ojay]

Holy fuck, epic stuff from the two of you!

.....and I'll remind you of this (again!) next time you take the piss out of Boltons st00piness!

I've crawled up many a 3ft/4ft shit pipe in Boltonia, I said never again to that as well a few years ago

 

[tarkovsky]

Awesome report Ojay - much easier to read than completing the drain itself, from the sound of it. Great work.

 

[Steveqo]

What a superb report. Fair play to you both. I couldn't go through hell underground like yourselves.

 

[jezzyboo]

fantastic report knackered just reading it brilliant effort

 

[Ojay]

Recognise this @siologen ♥

 

[siologen]

Yeah except it was all shuttered, full of weeds and partially collapsing when i was there... Which TBF made for a chill AF manhole access.

 

[Calamity Jane]

Wow , just wow. These drains are really getting me, I just love looking at them. This is superb and just increased my curious mind even more. :

 

[TheVicar]

I was reading the news this morning and saw this article about a sinkhole causing a house to partially collapse on Walmer Street in Gorton.
The first thing I thought of was the Cornbrook as I'm pretty sure it runs very close to this location.
After pouring over this superb report again, the words "accident waiting to happen during a major storm event and needs immediate attention" are now running through my head.
I'd like to think the collapse of the culvert was repaired over a year ago but I've got a nasty feeling that probably nowt was done.
I wonder if in due course we will hear that 'lessons will be learnt"

 

[Ojay]

@TheVicar
Well amazingly our find wasn’t in that vicinity, but mark my words when I say accident waiting to happen as the majority of the Cornbrook is in a poor state and it’s always a matter of time with these things sadly.

Funnily enough, I poked my beak in a day after storm Christoph had battered Manchester and as you can see @siologen favourite muddy shit hole was submerged still

Brindley’s basin and weir was doing a grand job

And the final outfall to the ship canal was holding out

 

[TheVicar]

Good to see Brindley's weir in use. Not seen the water coming in the top like that before though.
It will be interesting to see what the result of the investigation reveals in due course.
Trouble is with these places is that it's so easy to ignore the problems as they are not in the public view.

 

[Punk]

Great read and nice set of snaps, usual standard for you.