Wendies tunnel uncovered.

[Gerritforud]

BBC Radio Sheffield·

A very large hole has opened up at Decathlon UK in Sheffield overnight.

We're told it could be a collapsed cellar or Victorian drain. Any ideas?

Thanks to Luke Rockett for the photo.

(p.s the car park is closed!)

 

[JonnyRed(WCFC)]

Its the Piggies new home..Holesborough

 

[Sean Thornton]

BBC Radio Sheffield·

A very large hole has opened up at Decathlon UK in Sheffield overnight.

We're told it could be a collapsed cellar or Victorian drain. Any ideas?

Thanks to Luke Rockett for the photo.

(p.s the car park is closed!)

Owlstalk meltdown : we had this near Hillsborough first.........

 

[vorpal blade]

I'm going to hazard a guess that its an old watercourse to a water-wheel that took power from the Porter Brook which is yards away.

I bet its on some old map or other.


- that is if its not the Porter Brook itself.... the clue will be running water at the bottom.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Toby Foster - Police are looking for someone who was probably wearing a red and white scarf who did this.......first caller, it's Mick

Rotherham taxi driver Rawmarsh Mick - as ive just been saying to Alan Brazil on Talksport, Five Live, Thought for the day on R4, Radio Hallam, Peak FM and my mother Toby I don't want to talk about United, but.....

 

[Barney]

Its the Piggies new home..Holesborough

I knew there was a joke about holes in there somewhere. You dug that one right out.

 

[JonnyRed(WCFC)]

I knew there was a joke about holes in there somewhere. You dug that one right out.

Or it could be an old trough of theirs!

 

[JordoBlade]

I knew there was a joke about holes in there somewhere. You dug that one right out.

I see what you did there. HOLY shit.

 

[DifferentClass]

Potholes are just getting worse and worse and council still doing fuck all

 

[Slim Man]

It's where those extra pigs crawl out from when they've got a big game or cheap tickets on the go.

 

[vorpal blade]

O.K. the red lines show Decathlon and its carpark.

under said car-park there is the Porter Brook, a canal feeding a Dam and a few Reservoirs ......... take yer pick ..........

 

[GrayBlade]

Is that where Tango came up for air?

 

[Deleted member 1486]

This, isn't it? http://www.ukurbex.com/index.php?/topic/2162-porter-brook-to-megatron-sheffield-november-2011/

 

[Shirty Blade]

I believe that the police are looking into it.

 

[South London Blade]

- that is if its not the Porter Brook itself.... the clue will be running water at the bottom.

At the bottom there's a load of broken up tarmac that used to be a car park at the moment...

 

[Stretch]

This, isn't it? http://www.ukurbex.com/index.php?/topic/2162-porter-brook-to-megatron-sheffield-november-2011/

That Megatron is something to behold ain't it? They knew their onions those Victorian engineers.

 

[Kendal]

That Megatron is something to behold ain't it? They knew their onions those Victorian engineers.

If you look at Number 7, that brickwork on the right looks a lot like the bit by the hole, and the bodged job of the 'reinforcing' would certainly create a weak spot. Even if its not that spot, it suggest there was some really shit work carried out when it was culverted.

Recognise Number 8 from the old photos thread I'd hazard a guess that's earlier than Victorian. It looks like the crypt of a medieval cathedral.

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[Deleted member 1486]

If you look at Number 7, that brickwork on the right looks a lot like the bit by the hole

I was thinking it looked like no 7 too, except the left wall (so the photo's were taken from opposite sides), which might explain the ridge you see a few inches down? (we could be totally off of course!).

 

[blade too long]

do any austrians live in the area , it might be a room for their kids

 

[Barney]

do any austrians live in the area , it might be a room for their kids

Any need for that?

 

[blade too long]

Any need for that?

Yes lets pretend it never happens

 

[Barney]

Yes lets pretend it never happens

Not something to joke about though really is it

 

[The Crab]

Is that where Tango came up for air?

It'd be like a cheap budget Godzilla film wouldn't it

 

[The Crab]

At the bottom there's a load of broken up tarmac that used to be a car park at the moment...

And my Bugatti Veyron. Thats what I've put in the insurance claim anyway.

 

[carthesis]

O.K. the red lines show Decathlon and its carpark.

under said car-park there is the Porter Brook, a canal feeding a Dam and a few Reservoirs ......... take yer pick ..........

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Porter Brook got diverted somewhat once the dual-carriageway went in at St. Mary's Road / Gate. It now basically follows the line of Mary Street, jinks right a bit at the junction with Hereford Street, goes under the St Mary's Wesleyan Reform Church (the newish red brick one, not the "proper" one") car park, goes under Eyre Street, and briefly surfaces in that little copse of trees in the Staples car park, then turns the corner and goes across St. Mary's Gate on the diagonal to resurface next to Baan Thai and the Chinese Fireworks place near Waitrose.

Most likely this is an old disused culvert, or a slab over the original path of Porter Brook that was disused and covered over when the ring road went in.

 

[The Crab]

That Megatron is something to behold ain't it? They knew their onions those Victorian engineers.

I thought a Megatron was one of those Transformer things.

 

[BLADEBEER]

I think it's the hole that McNulty digs himself deeper into every time he opens his snout.

 

[shorehamview]

I thought a Megatron was one of those Transformer things.

I got my 8 year old nephew a Transformer for his birthday last year. Surprisingly, he wasn't impressed.

 

[The Crab]

I got my 8 year old nephew a Transformer for his birthday last year. Surprisingly, he wasn't impressed.
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Looks like with a bit of paint here and there, you could turn it into a Minion, then you'll be the Cool Uncle

 

[vorpal blade]

Most likely this is an old disused culvert, or a slab over the original path of Porter Brook that was disused and covered over when the ring road went in.

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. The map that I used is an extract from above is from about 1840..... there is a map at Sheffield University library (to which I no longer have access) from around that time or a bit earlier that is black & white but it is particularly beautiful and clear in that the watercourses are painted blue. I think that map may show even more waterways, dams, mill races and ponds than the the one here does.

Of course before coal and particularly coke were exclusively used to power steel production, the main power source was hydro, so usual that it seemed to me, looking at the map, that in the days before 1840 they seemed to call what we would now call a 'factory' or a 'workshop', a 'wheel' in Sheffield.

There is one mill-race on the map above, to the east of the carpark diverting the porter into the area that is at present a carpark between Mary & Sylvester Streets behind 'Niche'. There were hundreds of them round there and in all the areas in the valley bottom, hence "Pond Street" etc.