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siologen

Back Leg Blurs.

Apr 17, 2009 03:14

Lol, you know London Drain explorers are getting a bit spoilt by all the 160 year old Victorian brickwork when they cant be bothered exploring a newly found Deep Level Relief tunnel that joins three of the original Lost River tunnels together.... just cos its made of concrete ( Read more... )

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moscowhite April 17 2009, 09:26:00 UTC

That pool looks nice

siologen April 17 2009, 13:04:47 UTC

Yeah, wasnt very good for swimming tho... :(

moscowhite April 17 2009, 13:24:03 UTC

Did I told that I'm was a professional swimmer? I have a picture like this, it was taken in 1990, and there I'm prepare to start to swim backstroke in the empty pool :)))

siologen April 17 2009, 21:35:27 UTC

Lol, thats great... i can barely swim the backstroke. Breaststroke tho, im good at :D

loops April 17 2009, 10:10:59 UTC

Concrete? I'm up for concrete! Do you mean the North London Flood Relief that goes from Hampstead to Deep Ochre? I read somewhere that it goes all the way to Abbey Mills though... maybe the one near the top of DO is something else but it's a big RCP... http://sleepycity.net/photo/1380/in/post/135

Zero and I popped into it near H&I station two years ago but Z got bored.

siologen April 17 2009, 13:04:24 UTC

Nope, this is known as the Western Deep Level Sewer on teh map... in reality its a very deep storage tunnel that runs beneath the big cylindrical shaft tanks that you'll find in The Egg, Westbourne and Tyburn, just before you reach the hydraulic flaps in those tunnels. It then runs underneath the Thames to the tank attached to the d/s end of Rubix.

It was bone dry too. Only drama is that its access is a pair of joined triangle covers in the middle of a side street, so no easy lift cover access.

loops April 17 2009, 13:20:38 UTC

Ahhh! I'd been wondering what was at the bottom of the Westbourne can! I think it was Steve D who stuck his head in the little outlet at the bottom and said it was "full of crap". Not sure if there was an actual way through there. I love concrete :)

siologen April 17 2009, 21:34:44 UTC

Well, if you feel like coming, we're likely gunna bust it up next thursday night around 9pm. The section that runs under the Thames should be interesting...

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ljutefisk April 18 2009, 01:12:50 UTC

Used to come upon cave rat's nests. You could smell them from 30 feet away, as the caves have a neutral smell that magnifies any scents. The little buggers leave urine trails to find their way around in the dark. Always interesting kit in them... nuts, sticks, etc, but also caver junk like batteries, combs, candy bar wrappers, etc.

In West Virginia is a cave named Cave Rat Cave. Legend has it that it got it's name from a vertical drop where the rats would gnaw on the rope up atop the ledge. Custom is to always leave a candy bar at the rigging point as a sacrifice so as to save the rope.