Old Worsley
Explored/Photographed with @Ojay and @MartyZero
To start off this was quite a rushed and dramatic explore, certainly one of the more mission impossible type explores with the unpredictable weather this month!
Photos are mainly by @Ojay and @MartyZero and screen grabs from footage I had filmed.
The Explore
We got to the outfall to notice it had been completely rendered and spraycreted... from looking at older photos this section is completely ruined! (and layered with moths, Marty loves moths...)
This section was a tad stoopy but doesnt last very long..
Round a 90* bend and construction changes (prepare for shitty screengrabs..)
The wooden penstock has been removed however the levers it was held up with are still there.. sad really!
Now for the fun bit...
This is the infamous bridgewater canal section, to be fair I was dreading this bit before arriving, but it turned out to be quite fun in the end!
Ojay went first guiding us through the silty shitty water, I was thinking of bailing out but I thought theres no point bailing to miss out on what lies ahead!
It only got to about arse deep, abit silty but great fun!
Now it was my turn:
Pose for the camera!
Then Marty followed along after some encouragement.
Past a few side tunnels and other interesting features it opens up to 7/8 ft brick/stone tunnel before we meet with one of the things I had came to see..
Except..
.
The enviroment agency had completely spraycreted over the penstock and lifted it up, whats left is a now concrete penstock..
They had inserted an rcp into the brick tunnel which made this section abit stoopy, it was also foggy as fook!!
Finally we saw daylight
The culvert has a small open section which we called the oasis!
Again no proper photos sadly, but some nice ones !
Off up the next section!
This section started off with a stone slide which was abit tricky to get up but not too much of a faff!
This section had a very strong scent of detergent and perfume for whatever reason, we suspect somewhere it was raining and a sewer was going mental. This was later proved by a small cso spewing out some unquestionable substance infront of Marty and Ojay, smelly stuff..
Then to another slide this time stone:
Looking back:
This took you up to another spraycrete section however I believe this has been here far longer than any other spraycrete section.
Explored/Photographed with @Ojay and @MartyZero
To start off this was quite a rushed and dramatic explore, certainly one of the more mission impossible type explores with the unpredictable weather this month!
Photos are mainly by @Ojay and @MartyZero and screen grabs from footage I had filmed.
The Explore
We got to the outfall to notice it had been completely rendered and spraycreted... from looking at older photos this section is completely ruined! (and layered with moths, Marty loves moths...)
This section was a tad stoopy but doesnt last very long..
Round a 90* bend and construction changes (prepare for shitty screengrabs..)
The wooden penstock has been removed however the levers it was held up with are still there.. sad really!
Now for the fun bit...
This is the infamous bridgewater canal section, to be fair I was dreading this bit before arriving, but it turned out to be quite fun in the end!
Ojay went first guiding us through the silty shitty water, I was thinking of bailing out but I thought theres no point bailing to miss out on what lies ahead!
It only got to about arse deep, abit silty but great fun!
Now it was my turn:
Pose for the camera!
Then Marty followed along after some encouragement.
Past a few side tunnels and other interesting features it opens up to 7/8 ft brick/stone tunnel before we meet with one of the things I had came to see..
Except..
.
The enviroment agency had completely spraycreted over the penstock and lifted it up, whats left is a now concrete penstock..
They had inserted an rcp into the brick tunnel which made this section abit stoopy, it was also foggy as fook!!
Finally we saw daylight
The culvert has a small open section which we called the oasis!
Again no proper photos sadly, but some nice ones !
Off up the next section!
This section started off with a stone slide which was abit tricky to get up but not too much of a faff!
This section had a very strong scent of detergent and perfume for whatever reason, we suspect somewhere it was raining and a sewer was going mental. This was later proved by a small cso spewing out some unquestionable substance infront of Marty and Ojay, smelly stuff..
Then to another slide this time stone:
Looking back:
This took you up to another spraycrete section however I believe this has been here far longer than any other spraycrete section.
We had actually bailed back just after making it to this section as we heard thunder and/or lightning from a manhole.. However as time passed we decided we should just go for it..
Finally, after a dramatic explore we finally made it to the holy grail section
As Ojay and Marty were abit behind, I sat and watched it for a while, it was quite mesmerizing !
The closer you got the deeper the water got, and neither of us were risking getting stuck and then it beginning to rain..
We then set off back to the open section, neither of us wanted to go back through the deep bit, especially with incoming rain. Waterlines in the deep section from the night before had made us abit anxious...
We hopped out through someones driveway
"Are you part of the enviroment agency?"
"Yeah pal"
"Is it all okay down there?"
"Yep"
All while were climbing over someones brick wall
We decided a few hours later to see if we could find the infall
After abit of searching and jumping/climbing over sharp things we got to it:
Debris was crammed into the infall but after abit of prodding and moving heavy things we revealed this beautiful infall!
(and a few giant moths... I could swear that thing had fangs!)
Stood at the outfall you could hear the rush of water from the falls ahead however we did not have suitable footwear or torches, back soon?
We then ended the night with a few drinks and over cooked chips from the restaurant just right of the infall
Cheers for reading!
Cheers to Ojay and Marty for the shots!
