Wendies tunnel uncovered.

[vorpal blade]

IF, it turns out this hole is part of a watercourse, let me suggest a radical way of repairing it. Don't patch it up again.

Open it all up and have a verdant bit of riverbank again.


My understanding is that the Porter Brook and the Sheaf were so polluted by the second half of the 19th century that they were banished to culverts and rendered subterranean on Doctors' orders as a health and safety measure to try to prevent cholera and typhus outbreaks.

These dread diseases are, in my opinion no longer a threat due to the use of IZAL toilet 'tissue' in the 20th century.

 

[vorpal blade]

I know IZAL is a sore point among some here but I wouldn't want to rub anybody up the wrong way.

 

[I should coco]

I know IZAL is a sore point among some here but I wouldn't want to rub anybody up the wrong way.

Please don't rip the shit out of us.

 

[Deleted member 1486]

there is a map at Sheffield University library (to which I no longer have access)

Are you a graduate? Alumni can get a free library card, giving access to the libraries (obviously), borrowing, wifi (across all uni sites), databases, printers, etc.

 

[Jehovah]

I'll sort this lads

 

[carthesis]

just to say that if you don't properly and very thoroughly divert a river, it will probably 'try' to follow its natural course anyway.

I agree 100% - but if you look at Porter Brook in this area (you can see it running parallel to Mary Street at the back of the wasteland / Bluebell Wood car park next to Decathalon), you'll see it's in a lined channel (brickwork mostly) for most of it's length, until it dives under the junction of Mary Street and Hereford Street, where it is in a relatively modern concrete box culvert for about 50 metres or so, where it changes to an older brick arch culvert if memory serves, where it continues to about 20 metres before it re-emerges on the other side of Eyre street from a pre-cast concrete pipe culvert.

Suppose if they've not properly sorted the junction between the new route and the old it could still seep through, but after all these years you'd probably expect the water itself to have eroded it's new preferred path.

That's the only reason I suggested it was more likely an old, unknown and/or disused culvert/cover slab which had finally given up the ghost. Probably wasn't designed for all the fill on top of it, plus car park surfacing, plus parked cars at a guess.

 

[blade too long]

Not something to joke about though really is it

so did you complain when mock the week told endless jokes about it
cant think of a comedian who hasn,t

 

[BigBed]

Don't panic, it's just the Chinese laying foundations for another concrete monstrosity.

 

[vorpal blade]

Are you a graduate? Alumni can get a free library card, giving access to the libraries (obviously), borrowing, wifi (across all uni sites), databases, printers, etc.

Well I'm a graduate but not of that University. I used to work there and, especially having taken them to Employment Tribunal I'm barred out.

Last time I tried it a sniper with a degree in Humanities took some pot shots at me from the top of the Arts Tower....

"liberals" eh? they're a fairly illiberal lot these days - ask Ched

 

[BigBed]

Could this be where certain forum members plan to bury the "Ched threads"!?

 

[Sean Thornton]

so did you complain when mock the week told endless jokes about it
cant think of a comedian who hasn,t

 

[Bladebri]

Manchester trans-pennine tunnel started.

 

[blade too long]