Hulme flumes little brother/ medlock culverts, manchester, march 28th 2013
Re: Hulme flumes little brother/ medlock culverts, manchester, march 28th 2013
Pretty good walk round there. I believe the sewer bit with the iron penstock is called UMIST. It's fantastic how some codenames come about, its called that due to the fact of the mist coming off the warm sewage and the fact that some people in the flats above the metlock beck thing were throwing fruit at them as they waded through the water! UMIST!
Re: Hulme flumes little brother/ medlock culverts, manchester, march 28th 2013
UMIST is the concrete box section, Hulme Flumes lil bro is the penstock. Get it right dick 'ed!!But yea, its a good mooch. One day I'll get to the real Hulme Flume
Re: Hulme flumes little brother/ medlock culverts, manchester, march 28th 2013
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Clough
Pretty good walk round there. I believe the sewer bit with the iron penstock is called UMIST. It's fantastic how some codenames come about, its called that due to the fact of the mist coming off the warm sewage and the fact that some people in the flats above the metlock beck thing were throwing fruit at them as they waded through the water! UMIST!
Err...
We went in there once at the end of a manc weekend with a couple of hundred quid's worth of fireworks and proceeded to have 15 minutes of sheer anarchy. Scott said something about it being named so because they were out looking for drains, found this one right next to the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), and it's a shit boring featureless concrete box, hence You-Missed...
Echoes like a motherfucker when you hurl a firework down it though.