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    Default Bypass & Pandora's, Bradford, 03/11

    Visited with Mortaldecay and a non forum member.

    After looking at pics of the Bradford storm relief systems for a good few years, I figured it was time to get my arse up there and have a look! after a quick phonecall with MD, it was agreed.. Bradford needed doing! the size of the bypass is something else, as is the size of the CSO that forms pandoras box... INCREDIBLE!

    anyhow, after some messing about we found a place to drop into the downstream end of "macro" - the Bradford beck. now i would just like to take a minute or so here to have a small rant!

    Yorkshire water should be chuffing ASHAMED at the state of the Bradford beck, its more like an open sewer than a river. as well as the grey water and all manner of detritus flowing down it, it STINKS in some places the stink is unbearable! anyhow heres a couple of shots from the beck, the first is a double CSO the second is a sewer flowing DIRECTLY into the beck from a factory above, the stink here was the worst i have ever smelled!





    anyhow, we slowly and painstakingly made our way down the beck, till we reached the outfall of the bypass..

    facing you is the continuation of the open sewer that forms bradford beck AKA macro!



    turn around for bypass!



    By comparison to the beck, bypass is heaven! the water is shallow and clean, the floors are good and not too slippy. great we thought!

    that and its a bloody big tunnel too!



    so upstream we headed stopping only to check out the 100 feet deep manhole shafts.. this was getting better and better!

    the first proper feature you come too is a massive slide.



    which leads to the infall and junction chamber.





    the pipe continues left into the section known as pandoras. after some smaller pipes you get too another junction chamber, hearing a massive roar of water coming from the right hand pipe, this is where we went!



    landed up being a good decision, as we had found one of our targets.. Pandoras box, with its MASSIVE processors and CCTV cameras! sadly the lights were off though





    after messing around in here for a while, we off back down to the junction to take the left hand pipe, again this was good as there at the end of the concrete was pandora's slot. target 2 sorted!







    Now this was interesting, as leading to the slot there was a lovely brick and stone section, i think is called the west brook. neither of us could remember seeing this before, so off we went to get pics!







    which after a stoopy concrete box section, led us here!



    google maps on the phone showed us at this point we were in the middle of the uni. Tired, hungry we decided to call it a day and head back to the car. we WILL be back however. Bradford underground is EPIC! and we have only seen a small part of it!

    thanks goes out to the following people who helped us on the way!

    Thompki
    little mike
    MJS

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    Default Re: Bypass & Pandora's, Bradford, 03/11

    That's an excellent report mate, I enjoyed it lots.
    Under the radar, over the top

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    Default Re: Bypass & Pandora's, Bradford, 03/11

    Good stuff fella. Let me know if you come back, shame I was too busy for it.
    No doubt I'll be back down there soon!


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    Default Re: Bypass & Pandora's, Bradford, 03/11

    good stuff mate, makes me want to go over and take a look myself!
    check out the website scrappynw.com
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    Default Re: Bypass & Pandora's, Bradford, 03/11

    Good stuff we was only down there again last week, good to see the hatorZ with the Epic graffiti... I just LOL at Cnuts like that!

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    Default Re: Bypass & Pandora's, Bradford, 03/11

    Quote Originally Posted by MJS View Post
    Good stuff fella. Let me know if you come back, shame I was too busy for it.
    No doubt I'll be back down there soon!
    yea i will fella, we WILL be back to finish the job, need some macro/cathedral/academy action now to finish off!

    Quote Originally Posted by crippletron 3000 View Post
    Good stuff we was only down there again last week, good to see the hatorZ with the Epic graffiti... I just LOL at Cnuts like that!
    I must admit to lolling at the some of the graff in there, but i do think its very petty that people feel the need to do shit like this!

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    Default Re: Bypass & Pandora's, Bradford, 03/11

    These people are 'so called drainers' LOL

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    Default Re: Bypass & Pandora's, Bradford, 03/11

    We need another big drain meet. I'll bring the paint remover


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    Default Re: Bypass & Pandora's, Bradford, 03/11

    Quote Originally Posted by MJS View Post
    We need another big drain meet. I'll bring the paint remover
    fecking hell you drinking or sniffing that stuff now lol ??
    "God will forgive them. He'll forgive them, and allow them into heaven. I can't live with that."

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    both


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