Idle / Wrose Reservoir Abseil, Bradford - Aug 2012

[MJS]

I've had my eye on this place for a couple of years now. After pestering Ogay to bring his ropes and his balloon knot we finally made our way down along with a certain Mr Squizzington.... oh, and of course our good friend ROY!!

To give a bit of context, the reservoir sits high on top of Idle Moor in ye olde Brapford next to a relay transmitter for the one at Emley Moor. It has been empty for a number of years.


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Having taken note of the necessary warning signs, it was time to set up whilst Ogay fiddled with his balloon knot...

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As we pulled one end of the rope back up to lower some gear down, we accidently an antler from Ruderp the Red Nosed Derpdeer!

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Knowing that Ruderp was still down there, minus one antler and turbo pissed, we decided it was time to lower ROY down so he could sort him the fuck out...

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Yea, fuck off Roy.


Getting down was easy enough...

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The place was massive and the echo was ridiculous! Plenty of photo opportunities to be had...

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Good ol' Roy was on the ball and managed to find a micro scooter in full working order and a knackered pair of Roy Cropper's bolt croppers

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It was up to the Squizz0r to test drive this powerful beast...
(The vid really gives a sense of scale!)


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Obligatory crew shot before the ascent

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Getting out was a little trickier (for some of us). Ojay flopped about at the hatch for quite some time looking like a testicle with a bad bout of Elephantiasis

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Onwards upwards and outwards....

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lols all round! Thanks for looking

[BB]

Me n Scrappy did a res ages ago n I have to agree. The echoes inside are bonkers!!
A cough sounds like Armageddon starting! :lol:

[MJS]

You can sing three or four consecutive notes in tune and the reverberation is like a full choir singing, mental!!

[mr beardy]

Sweet, ROY is a beast

[Mish]

I'd love to go there if I wasn't shirt scared of abseiling :lol

[birdinanaviary]

Proper good set of photos that some of the best I've seen in a while

[GeoVDUB]

Amazing work fucking flashbender.

[ERNIE99_UK]

Brilliant place, if the ladder was accessible you could use it for one hell of an underground party.

[Krypton]

that looks awesome

looks a bit like a torlift hatch

[Lisajane79]

Your report made me piss!
Your all pretty much bonkers :mental
Great pictures!

[coops]

Great reflection in the pics ..top stuff mate

[Clough]

That's fantastico very nice to see Roy out and about again

[jST]

That bulb

[the kwan]

Love this Mr Bulbington, awesome day trip for Roy :)

[Rochester]

Wicked, fellas.

[myke]

nice shots and the roy element raised a good laugh too

[TheSmurf]

WOW! /this place looks awesome!