The concrete block was to stop the wagons filled with garden rubbish from going over the cliff. An old butcher who's Grandfather took meat to the house told me this.I remember as a kid we used to look over and see flowers growing down there as well as other garden rubbish.
You maniac, walk over to the park and you'll see a Lucy box and a series of Manhole covers and a couple of large steel plates, over a hundred thousand pounds worth of plant are buried there to separate the floating material from the sewer when the rain water floods the sewer and sends it cascading down that gully you almost lost your life in, the concrete block in the woods at the top of the gully is another buried change of direction chamber on the overflow pipe, try to stick to the pathways.
I can assure you, there was no "almost losing life" in the video. Are you talking about the concrete pipe you can see in this video? I'm aware of where the Lucy Box is... Does this concrete pipe attach to that? It would make sense if it did! Thanks. G.
@@campfirehistory.115 "I can assure you, there was no", , , , Having scrambled all over that CSO recreationally and professionally I assure you you were a few steps from death if not serious injury with no hope of rescue, "Are you talking about the concrete pipe", , , , All part of the same system, I've worked on and around it for 40 years, Be safe.
@@jamesohara4295 Thanks for the information. Good to have someone step in and fill me in on what this was. Especially considering you worked on it. That's part of the reason I set this up, to meet people with the answers. All I have is what I find online and on the old maps! So what are the brickwork pillars that you see here? I'll agree it is a hell of a drop but there was some precautionary methods taken on the day... I'm not just a schmuk who roams the forest, (not that you said I am) I do have a professional background in the outdoors etc. Again, thanks for the info.
@@campfirehistory.115 " the reason I set this up, to meet people with the answers. All I have is what I find online and on the old maps!", , , , So how did you miss the wincie well at the old mill?, www.saintignatiuswishaw.org.uk/ahistoricalnote.html Read the last two lines, "brickwork pillars", , , , They're called piers, they suspended the old CSO, (Combined Sewer Overflow) pipe which had collapsed and was replaced with a buried CSO pipe, "I do have a professional background in the outdoors etc", , , , Me too, Sewer rescue, Mines rescue, and training with various outward bound groups in rappelling and rigging over the years, Later.
@@jamesohara4295 The actual wincie well has evaded me and a few others. I've read quite a bit about it and a few folks have sent me there information too but they can't definitively put a place on it either. There is a few spots in that area that people have said... "It could be there..." But I would like more than a "could be"
The concrete block was to stop the wagons filled with garden rubbish from going over the cliff.
An old butcher who's Grandfather took meat to the house told me this.I remember as a kid we used
to look over and see flowers growing down there as well as other garden rubbish.
What were the larger blocks for that are further down?
You maniac, walk over to the park and you'll see a Lucy box and a series of Manhole covers and a couple of large steel plates, over a hundred thousand pounds worth of plant are buried there to separate the floating material from the sewer when the rain water floods the sewer and sends it cascading down that gully you almost lost your life in, the concrete block in the woods at the top of the gully is another buried change of direction chamber on the overflow pipe, try to stick to the pathways.
I can assure you, there was no "almost losing life" in the video.
Are you talking about the concrete pipe you can see in this video? I'm aware of where the Lucy Box is...
Does this concrete pipe attach to that? It would make sense if it did!
Thanks.
G.
@@campfirehistory.115 "I can assure you, there was no", , , ,
Having scrambled all over that CSO recreationally and professionally I assure you you were a few steps from death if not serious injury with no hope of rescue,
"Are you talking about the concrete pipe", , , ,
All part of the same system, I've worked on and around it for 40 years,
Be safe.
@@jamesohara4295 Thanks for the information. Good to have someone step in and fill me in on what this was. Especially considering you worked on it. That's part of the reason I set this up, to meet people with the answers. All I have is what I find online and on the old maps!
So what are the brickwork pillars that you see here?
I'll agree it is a hell of a drop but there was some precautionary methods taken on the day... I'm not just a schmuk who roams the forest, (not that you said I am) I do have a professional background in the outdoors etc.
Again, thanks for the info.
@@campfirehistory.115 " the reason I set this up, to meet people with the answers. All I have is what I find online and on the old maps!", , , ,
So how did you miss the wincie well at the old mill?,
www.saintignatiuswishaw.org.uk/ahistoricalnote.html
Read the last two lines,
"brickwork pillars", , , ,
They're called piers, they suspended the old CSO, (Combined Sewer Overflow) pipe which had collapsed and was replaced with a buried CSO pipe,
"I do have a professional background in the outdoors etc", , , ,
Me too, Sewer rescue, Mines rescue, and training with various outward bound groups in rappelling and rigging over the years,
Later.
@@jamesohara4295 The actual wincie well has evaded me and a few others. I've read quite a bit about it and a few folks have sent me there information too but they can't definitively put a place on it either.
There is a few spots in that area that people have said... "It could be there..." But I would like more than a "could be"