Divided into 2 sections, (Upper & Lower). Lock Stock is essentially a Victorian sewer relief system, acting as a twin CSO if you like. The setup is quite unique, but in essence provides for an overflow between the Davyhulme outfall 'A' & 'B' Trunk sewers and outfalls into the Manchester Ship Canal.
Lower Lock Stock as it's commonly known was discovered by JonDoe, the upstream section has had considerably more attention than the lower.
I'm not going to hype this up by saying it was like some next level access or such shit, It's just a drain.
This one had been on the 'to-do' list for a while now, and with access eluding us since the last exscursion with Mortaldecay I had since returned and popped a few more lids, with no luck!
As the week came to a close, I was at a loose end. Despite pestering various people over the weeks & months to take at look at this, nobody seemed interested!
Fuck it, I'm gonna go and take another look......
After lifting another couple of lids and evading unwanted attention I soon located the access and quickly made my way down the ancient brick shaft.
I was immediatley greeted by the overwhelming smell of 'fresh' and all manner of STD's that were draped from the rusty step irons below.
Once down into the 2750 RBP the water was about 2 ft deep and appeared to get deeper heading downstream. I had no intention of walking down that way, as the Outfall to the ship canal provides no access.
I chose wellies, and although just below breach, I still managed to get wet and covered in all manner of crap as I headed upstream - LOL.
Passing along the way were a number of 'floaters'... thats right, stale turds & fanny plasters were amongst some of the highlights :D
Eventually the water levels began to lower, and interestingly appeared to be much clearer, despite the smell and the roar of arse soup in the distance.
As I shone my torch about I spotted a lonely frog clinging onto the brickwork yet somehow managing to evade the 'fresh' it was somewhat cleaner than me at this point.
After what seemed like an age, the RBP opened up to a huge brick chamber, ahead were the 'Smoking barrels'.
Although an odd looking junction, it is really quite a simple setup.
The trunk sewer flows down a 4650 RBP, under a cast iron pipe in the left-hand tunnel and underneath the overflow chamber, bearing 90 degrees and through a second 3950 cast iron pipe to the right - (See below).
The left-Hand tunnel is a real oddity, having clambered across the planks of wood draped with fanny plasters and shit roll, and up a stepped section, I was greeted with a cast iron pipe, 'bolted' together and running through a larger brick/concrete overflow chamber. This was raised above the sewer below.
I first walked through this to grab a few shots and to work out what the hell was going on.
To the left were step irons to another manhole high above, on the right were more step irons covered in all manner of shite, I headed up these and jumped across climbing ontop of the cast iron pipe to grab some further shots of the 'fresh' and watched the turds overtaking the fanny plasters as they flowed down the second cast iron pipe which can be seen cutting across the right-hand tunnel.
In effect if Davyhulme 'B' overflows, the fresh will rise up and through the cast iron pipe, fill up the storm chamber and flow down through the tunnel on the left, down into the smaller RBP and eventually out into the ship canal.
The right tunnel is effectively a continuation of the overflow which provides for further overflow from the Davyhulme 'A' Outfall sewer (Upper Lock Stock). Access is denied at this point, as the Davyhulme 'B' Outfall sewer cuts across from left to right - (See Above) through a 3950 cast iron pipe, below it is a deadly sump!
As I made my way out there was quite a bit of activity above ground, I sat it out for a while before eventually G.T.F.O.
Overflow - 9ft RBP
Ahead, 'smoking barrels'
Left & Right Tunnels
Davyhulme 'B' sewer overflow chamber
Inside the cast iron pipe
'Fresh' - Davyhulme 'B' trunk sewer
Deadly sump
In your relief sewers
Sewers can be cool places, but equally just as grim. Solo draining NSFW.... Peace.
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