I really like this little 6ft red brick oddity. For the main part it has little to no flow. It serves
as an overflow pipe on a major Mancunian sewer and there's little clue to its existence above ground other than a single cover
in the middle of some parkland. Discovered by
Drainrat & Oggy, it's a slippery-ass 500 metre stretch of red brick pipe, it empties into the very
lowest reaches of the Moston Brook just prior to the brook emptying into the River Irk. Its start is
in a tall arch topped brick chamber on a main sewer where a great hulking counter-weighted steel penstock gate can be closed
off, via a very much maintained and in use motor room above the chamber, to send the sewers flow over the retaining weir and into the S.S.S.I overflow, that would be a sight.
It bears similarities with other overflows we've seen and its start looks very much like a scaled down version of the
overflow chamber that is found in the King's Scholar's Pond Sewer in London. The final
200 metres of this drain is an arched stone culvert taking the end of the Moston Brook as it passes beneath a roadway
around a couple of severe bends and falls into the River Irk.
