Date: 22nd of May 2025
Entrance: 3m Materials: Concrete Shapes: Box
Rating: ★★☆☆☆
It was a chilly thursday afternoon that we all met up at tommys hole for an explore through the drains. I had previously done blade's tomb before but had only done a small part of it and dipped at the grille room gutterbox so I was excited to do the whole thing this time.
Honestly not a lot in Tommy's Hole but it's a good lead up to the much much better Blade's tomb.
Date: 22nd of May 2025
Entrance: 2.8m
Materials: Concrete, Redbrick
Shapes: Round, Box
Rating: ★★★★★
This drain is beautiful and contains so many loops and junctions. There are a few stinky sections but they're very manageable.
The drain starts as this walkable concrete box with a few cool gutter holes and graff the whole way up till the junction. We went down the left tunnel and planned to loop around and come out the right one.
We got to the grille room exit and a few of us dipped, but we continued to see if this drain had more to offer past the grille. It was RCP with a crude junction rooms that lead into an old redbrick pipe running parallel. We continue down the main concourse to find the end of the drain.
We went all the way up to the last junction room and about 10min past that to a few crosspipes. We turned back from here and decided to go down and check out the dry pipe from the junction before.
It got stinkier and stinkier and we noticed the only water running through was actual piss.
Further down the old section of RCP there was a small junction with new RCP that lead us to a very small oven shaped sewer overflow with a flap further in. We were gonna continue down this side pipe but it just kept getting smaller and smaller so we turned back.
The main pipe eventually lead us to the first junction and we headed back out the outfall. I love when drains have big loops like this I dont think we retraced many steps it was a really good explore.