Sub-Urban - Urban Underground Exploration

Sub-Urban is a collection of stories, facts, photographs and video from two friends who choose to venture where our curiosity so leads us. Most often those ventures are underground, amongst the networks of culverts, storm drains and sewers that tirelessly serve the populous cities above. We intersperse our underground trips with anything that sparks intrigue, from derelict and abandoned buildings to follies and forgotten estates, there's much to be seen so please take a look around.

"There are more ways than one of looking at sewers . . " John Hollingshead (1861)



		Megatron a.k.a. The River Sheaf If arches are your thing then Megatron is the drain for you. The final downstream reaches of the River Sheaf, to its confluence with the River Don, are culverted beneath Sheffield City centre . . .

		Urbanunderworld.co.uk - A tribute As histories go, the UK draining scene's significant web presence goes back little further than the turn of the millennium. Given this short span of time, most who have been in and amongst . . .

		Crystal Phallus a.k.a. Spider Culvert Not a re-visit as such, rather I overhauled the page to use the new image viewer making for much bigger formations of crystalline phallic wonder. One of my favourite solo drain explores . . .

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