It's a really relaxed, easy site, with plenty of interesting paperwork and stuff to nose through. And with the sun shining through most of the place, it's just a cracking little explore.
Thursday 13 June 2013
Sucker
A(nother) early finish at work, and with no one to run home to I decided to get back to Dyson's while the weather was good.
It's a really relaxed, easy site, with plenty of interesting paperwork and stuff to nose through. And with the sun shining through most of the place, it's just a cracking little explore.
It's a really relaxed, easy site, with plenty of interesting paperwork and stuff to nose through. And with the sun shining through most of the place, it's just a cracking little explore.
Sunday 9 June 2013
May
May was pretty hectic for me, changing jobs, funerals to attend, holidays etc, but I managed to squeeze in some explore time and get back underground for the first time in ages.
Millsands Goit, or Kelham Island Goit (props to jazzywheelz for the research by the way), was a culvert I'd wanted to look at for ages, the outfall is bang next to work so I saw it almost every day, but it was always put off for something better. It had been explored before apparently, but since we couldn't find anything online about it, we claimed naming rights and settled on "Mini-tron" - anyone familiar with Megatron (the culvert, not the Transformer), will probably be able to tell why.
It's a culverted section of the Don, the creation of which essentially creating the original Kelham Island and acting as a mill race and power millwheels etc.
There's a section of open water, but we only looked at the underground parts. The original course has been altered somewhat by modern construction, and we were a bit unsure as to where the original outfall into the Don would have been - probably not where it is now; me and nightcaller had a look at a short dead end, a silty as fuck former outfall, last year, under Lady's Bridge, which may have been the original outfall for Millsands Goit, the water course running the length of the modern Millsands road.
Visited with jazzywheelz.
We jumped in around where the sluice would have been to control water flow through the wheels.
Running almost parallel to this is a 3ft rubbly zigzaggy passage, but it was so confined in there I didn't bother with any pictures.
There's then an open section leading into two fairly large arched infalls - the left hand one was very heavily silted, with not much water flow. The right hand one was quite impressive.
After maybe 100 yards, with conditions underfoot getting siltier (I did manage to get stuck once or twice!) we came across another small silted up stone archway.
At this point the two large arches converged into one.
The stonework is dropping to bits here, hence the next hundred yards of spraycrete.
There's another short open section, before two parallel 5ft rbp's outfall into the Don. My shots round this area were pretty poor though as it was pissing it down and my camera got a soaking...
So, not amazing, but another one ticked off that list.
Millsands Goit, or Kelham Island Goit (props to jazzywheelz for the research by the way), was a culvert I'd wanted to look at for ages, the outfall is bang next to work so I saw it almost every day, but it was always put off for something better. It had been explored before apparently, but since we couldn't find anything online about it, we claimed naming rights and settled on "Mini-tron" - anyone familiar with Megatron (the culvert, not the Transformer), will probably be able to tell why.
It's a culverted section of the Don, the creation of which essentially creating the original Kelham Island and acting as a mill race and power millwheels etc.
There's a section of open water, but we only looked at the underground parts. The original course has been altered somewhat by modern construction, and we were a bit unsure as to where the original outfall into the Don would have been - probably not where it is now; me and nightcaller had a look at a short dead end, a silty as fuck former outfall, last year, under Lady's Bridge, which may have been the original outfall for Millsands Goit, the water course running the length of the modern Millsands road.
Visited with jazzywheelz.
We jumped in around where the sluice would have been to control water flow through the wheels.
Running almost parallel to this is a 3ft rubbly zigzaggy passage, but it was so confined in there I didn't bother with any pictures.
There's then an open section leading into two fairly large arched infalls - the left hand one was very heavily silted, with not much water flow. The right hand one was quite impressive.
After maybe 100 yards, with conditions underfoot getting siltier (I did manage to get stuck once or twice!) we came across another small silted up stone archway.
At this point the two large arches converged into one.
The stonework is dropping to bits here, hence the next hundred yards of spraycrete.
There's another short open section, before two parallel 5ft rbp's outfall into the Don. My shots round this area were pretty poor though as it was pissing it down and my camera got a soaking...
So, not amazing, but another one ticked off that list.
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