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River Croal, Bolton - March 2013

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Paulpowers

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Work took me to Bolton today so during my dinner hour I decided to pop down the river Croal.

Quite a nice stroll with a visit into some of the buildings foundations (the pics from there came out crap).

The second section has a nice set of stairs but gets pretty boring after that,

As I came out there were UU workers all over the place like it was some sort of convention, not a word was said but I got a few odd looks :D

The River Croal is a river located in Greater Manchester, England. It is a tributary of the River Irwell.Rising at the confluence of Middle Brook and Deane Church Brook, it flows eastwards through Bolton, collecting Gilnow Brook and the larger River Tonge at Darcy Lever. Most of the river is culverted through Bolton town centre, running under Knowsley Street; Market Place and Bridge Street. Before 1836 the River Croal formed the boundary between the townships of Great and Little Bolton.

The river's name is derived from the Old English croh and wella, the winding stream. It was possibly originally called the Middlebrook along its entire length as early references mention the Mikelbrok, (mycel and broc), the great stream but not the Croal.

It meets the Irwell at Nob End.
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The hole half way up the wall leads to this

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And into the next one

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Then when I came out this happened

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shaddam

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managed to make something simple into something interesting, nice :D

 

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I love the way you tie ur splores in with ur work

Looks a really interesting place and great shots Paul (y)

Lolz to the last one

 

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Good stuff mate, never done any underground work but you have caught it well.

 

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Thats nice Paul, what a nice greeting when you came out :D

 

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I like the look f ths, underground s where I'm at home, very nice thanks for sharing :D

 

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I likem this sort of thing, shows you can explore and get great shots without finding places that are the epicest of ecpic epicness epicology!

 

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paul you never cease to amaze me with your dinner time break time splores!! ide say your obsessed!! you can ferret a drain out from no where!! crackin report

 

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getting paid while being out exploring is the way of the future

 
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