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Report - Slim Pickings, Manchester, April 2019

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tarkovsky

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Back in April my back wasn't as awful as it is currently (MRI results pending I'll hopefully be able to touch my toes again soon). So me, @Esoteric Eric and @tallginge headed to Mancfester to check out this beautiful example of a drain. I had wanted to see this one for a while and wasn't disappointed. Info nabbed from a @Snake Oil report as I can't put it more succinctly myself:

'Slim Pickings is a big brick built stilling pond overflow for Manchesters Work 6 interceptor sewer, outfalling to the nearby River Medlock via a 2 metre RCP. The long outfall tunnel has a single side pipe leading to a tall chamber with a small watercourse entering from the top and reaching the bottom via a drop shaft into a small pool before spilling out into the main outfall towards the river.'

Entry, as the name suggests, requires a starvation diet but otherwise this is a nice, spacious example of the kind of drain that Manchester does best.

From the outfall...

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From here you can imagine a load of boring photos of RCP for yourself. Here's one...

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And a junction!

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There's a multilevel chamber in the pipe to the right. (Ginge and Eric went for a look up the ladders whilst I sat at the bottom feeling a bit dizzy as I'd forgotten to eat my dinner).

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Eventually RCP turns to brick. After here there's a biiiiig wall that is negotiated with a ladder. It would have to be quite some overflow to make it over the wall, although I guess it must happen sometimes.

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Over the wall and you're greeted with loveliness...

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Tallginge went on an adventure so he could shine his torch through here.

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Beyond here is moar sewer. We didn't go too far down here....

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Ginge pose....

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Good memories of an evening well spent.​
 

tallginge

more tall than ginger tho.....
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Enjoyed this trip to mancfester - we should do it again some time. Yeah remember to eat mate - draggin you through that grille would've been a nightmare :D Nice pics and report dude :thumb
 

pastybarm

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How on earth do you come across the outfalls to these drains? Just genuinely curious. Great looking brickwork though.
 

tarkovsky

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How on earth do you come across the outfalls to these drains? Just genuinely curious. Great looking brickwork though.

Finding this one had nothing to do with me - I believe [names redacted to protect the innocent!] may have been the first here. And @tallginge had been before so I just followed him, haha!

However if we are talking more generally about ones I have found in Sheffield it either involves following the course of the river physically (running or biking alongside it, or wading into less accessible parts) and having a look, or else looking on old maps where streams or some outfalls are labelled. In short: research.
 
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tarkovsky

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Well I'm intrigued now - come on who was first? Or why can't they be named? How long ago was it?
We does what explorers does best. Not likely to trip over this one.

I named three people but then had a wobble as I know that certain water companies don’t like certain people going in certain drains so I deleted their names and then realised it’s probably not necessary. I shouldn’t be allowed on the internet really, it’s too stressful..
 

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