Creme Fresh

Named because the Crematorium is over the road

Every time someone from Macclesfield asks about drains they ask about this one.
I've not posted a report from it before because if I'm honest I don't find it very interesting.
There is a caged outfall that leads right up to the processor unit, don't bother trying the covers as they all have gates on them, the outfall is also gated so to get in you need pixie dust and happy thoughts, does anyone actually read all this waffle that I write?
Any ways here are the pics to stop people asking what's inside.

Looking back at the gated outfall

What is with UU and chains?


GTFO

The Works

I have no idea why I haven't done the works before, I've travelled further for a whole lot less!
Crossing the Irk went without incident and entry was a walk in, which made a pleasant change.
It wasn't until I found myself thigh deep in what barely passes for water that I discovered a hole in my wadorz.

Brick porn



The Drain Fairy, protecting all those who pass through the works


The giant steps



Time to GTFO

Thanks for looking

Yesterdays nightclub

Christ it's August already, where has the year gone
Yes this is me above ground, it might be worth getting the sun glasses out the internal painting is a bit mental.

Back in the 90`s Yesterday’s Night Club in Alderley Edge was once one of the hottest nightspots in Cheshire that once attracted footballers and TV stars. It was bought by Absolute Leisure and in March 2000 became the areas first Lap dancing club, launching a lap dancing evening which became a regular weekday fixture known as the Purple Door. It then changed its name to Lizard and in 2004 it finely closed its doors. It had plans to change it into luxury housing but these plans fell through, a Northern Ireland-based developer Benmore Group has submitted a planning application to extend, refurbish and alter the former Yesterday's night club to create a 68 bedroom hotel including a ground floor bistro and spa.

Play it again Sam

Standedge

First off let me apologise for the pics, I was stuck with the little bridge camera
History bit stolen from Wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standedge_Tunnels

The Standedge Tunnels (Standedge is normally pronounced Stannige) are four parallel tunnels that run beneath the Pennines at the traditional Standedge crossing point between Marsden and Diggle, on the edges of the conurbations of West Yorkshire and Greater Manchester respectively, in northern England. There are three railway tunnels and a canal tunnel (on the Huddersfield Narrow Canal). The canal tunnel is the longest and oldest of the tunnels, and holds the record as the longest and highest canal tunnel in Britain. All four tunnels are linked by cross-tunnels or adits at strategic locations within the tunnels. The adits allowed the railway tunnels to be built much more quickly by allowing 'waste spoil' to be removed by boat and reducing the need for shafts for construction. Of the railway tunnels, only the tunnel built in 1894 is currently used for rail traffic. Closed in 1943, the canal tunnel was re-opened in May 2001. The Standedge Tunnel Visitor Centre, at the Marsden end of the tunnel, serves as a base for boat trips into the canal tunnel and hosts an exhibition which depicts the various crossings.

The central tunnel seems to be a cut through for the railway staff, I had to dodge down side tunnels quite a few times in the pitch black as jeeps drove past!
One of the Jeeps was parked up next to a tunnel to the canal, once it shifted I dashed over and had a nosey but didn't stick around to take pics




Drain down to the Canal

Quick Request

You might have spotted the ads on the side Well google pay for each click on an advert and any money made through the ads will be getting donated to Scope :) So if you could click on one it would be appreciated but if you don't then that's up to you

Optimus Prime

I got bored so decided to go for a drive after work and ended up in Manchester centre and going for a wander down Prime
The sewer outfalls were pouring out clouds of mist that was attracting thousands of flies that swarmed my torches so the headlamp was out of the question.






Cheers for looking

Bagger 288 De

The Bagger 288 is an excavator manufactured by German company Krupp for the mining Rheinbraun. It weighs 13 500 tons, and when its construction was completed in 1978 , became the largest Bagger 288 excavator in the world, surpassing the crawler-transporter of NASA , used to transport the Space Shuttle launch vehicle and the Saturn V

Click the pic to see the full size pic

You can't get the scale of the machines until you see something next to it
The tiny orange dot is a man