As awesome as the drain meet was, 2 days later I was already feeling the urge to get back underground. The weather was so nice it really seemed a shame to be on the surface so I headed down to The Works in Manchester to escape the heat.
Got to the infall only to discover I had forgotten one of the most essential pieces of kit for an elite drainer...a lighting bitch! Luckily I found Molly, a skanky Manchester whore lurking around the outfall. She'll do anything for a price, so I told her I'd pay her 20p if she'd carry my fluoro round:
Harold is pleased
Molly
Group shot
A cold one, just because all the others are quite warm!
Ran out of time before I had a chance to take any photos of the overflow chamber (where the hell did 5 hours go!?!), but went for a quick look. I always thought The Works hardly ever had any overflow events if at all, but quite interestingly it seems it has been put to good use very recently. The rusty bridge is now covered with debris and all the skanky standing water further down the tunnel has been replaced with some nice new clean water. Well...that was until I stirred up all the crap on the bottom again!
Nostalgia trip to Blood Creek in Stoke. Ages since I've been here, I found it funny how I noticed so much more things now that I've done more drains. Things like the insane amount of road noise, and the 8ft high water level mark, quite disturbing given the unusually steep gradient. Also quite blatant is what an incredibly shoddy job the construction crew did on the upstream sections (d/s is covered in black waterproofing err tar I guess, but the u/s is just bare metal and has rusted away). Looks as though they gambled on Severn Trent only inspecting the first 600m...and got away with it!
In the end chamber I felt it was 'bout time I started manning up and experimenting with some proper light painting instead of relying on static lights all the time. It wasn't really possible up till now with the mighty 30s exposures of the S6500! Lit with an L2D and high-fi latex glove diffuser.
Felt strangely unsatisfied when I drove past Manchester, so a quick stop in Processor to cure my thirst for more walking and big draynzzz! Much bigger and awesomer than I remember, but looks like there's been a lot of rain in Manchester recently! The amount of debris here on the infall grille agrees with the similar situation currently found in The Works overflow chamber
Which way? To be fair it's a ^&%$ long walk whatever you do.
The strange instant transition from pristine brick to cave. I think maybe this is where the drain passes from a built up area (no groundwater) to open land (lots of ground water pouring in from every angle!) I'd try confirm this on google earth but I am too lazy right now!
Got to the infall only to discover I had forgotten one of the most essential pieces of kit for an elite drainer...a lighting bitch! Luckily I found Molly, a skanky Manchester whore lurking around the outfall. She'll do anything for a price, so I told her I'd pay her 20p if she'd carry my fluoro round:
Harold is pleased
Molly
Group shot
A cold one, just because all the others are quite warm!
Ran out of time before I had a chance to take any photos of the overflow chamber (where the hell did 5 hours go!?!), but went for a quick look. I always thought The Works hardly ever had any overflow events if at all, but quite interestingly it seems it has been put to good use very recently. The rusty bridge is now covered with debris and all the skanky standing water further down the tunnel has been replaced with some nice new clean water. Well...that was until I stirred up all the crap on the bottom again!
Nostalgia trip to Blood Creek in Stoke. Ages since I've been here, I found it funny how I noticed so much more things now that I've done more drains. Things like the insane amount of road noise, and the 8ft high water level mark, quite disturbing given the unusually steep gradient. Also quite blatant is what an incredibly shoddy job the construction crew did on the upstream sections (d/s is covered in black waterproofing err tar I guess, but the u/s is just bare metal and has rusted away). Looks as though they gambled on Severn Trent only inspecting the first 600m...and got away with it!
In the end chamber I felt it was 'bout time I started manning up and experimenting with some proper light painting instead of relying on static lights all the time. It wasn't really possible up till now with the mighty 30s exposures of the S6500! Lit with an L2D and high-fi latex glove diffuser.
Felt strangely unsatisfied when I drove past Manchester, so a quick stop in Processor to cure my thirst for more walking and big draynzzz! Much bigger and awesomer than I remember, but looks like there's been a lot of rain in Manchester recently! The amount of debris here on the infall grille agrees with the similar situation currently found in The Works overflow chamber
Which way? To be fair it's a ^&%$ long walk whatever you do.
The strange instant transition from pristine brick to cave. I think maybe this is where the drain passes from a built up area (no groundwater) to open land (lots of ground water pouring in from every angle!) I'd try confirm this on google earth but I am too lazy right now!
