Car Brook, Sheffield - January 2012

[woodburner]

This place had been my personal nemesis for years as I attempted to track down the outfall, and having found what I thought was a mid-point above ground entry point which turned out to be 2 foot high I shelved it...

Turns out the mid point was a red herring and was a completely different culverted brook in Sheffield.

Anyway, skip forward a couple of years and Kaplan posted a report of the upstream end of Car Brook which got me interested... The grilled part of Kaplan's report is a good 2 miles away from the outfall into the river Don, so theres a HUGE section of culvert between the two.

I already knew where the outfall was, so Kaplan went to recce for a potential mission. The report came back 'looks stoopy & silty' but very do-able.

The entrance was actually more than 6ft tall, but at least 3ft deep in water with 18 inches of nasty silt.

Every step was a struggle, and released grim smelling gases.
At this point I said 'What the fuck am I doing here?' but still decided to carry on.

After 150 metres or so the silt started to shallow off and the water soon followed. We were then confronted with a 5ft brick arched tunnel but with little water in the bottom. This lasted for about another 200 metres and then changed to a 4ft RCP requiring MORE stooping.

We decided to push on a bit further to see what was ahead before deciding to return at a later date with drainboard to continue to the end.

Anyway, after all the aggro I was determined to get some pics:-

Scummy water



BrickZ



5ft Brick arched tunnel



4ft RCP



There is unfinished business here, so no doubt will be back in the future.

Bigups to Kaplan for getting me off my arse for this!

[MJS]

Tip top work sir

[Kevsy21]

Interesting stuff.

[simonix]

Cool, good luck when you return.