Description
In this video we go to the City of Bradford Yorkshire. We are looking at the Bradford Beck a small river/ watercourse that has a massive flood tunnel. The flood tunnel is the Bradford Beck flood alleviation system or Bypass as it is commonly known. The Bradford beck although a small stream/river takes water from 13 tributaries that all run off the Pennine hills in the north of England. The Pennine hills are famous for receiving a lot of rainfall. When its rains heavily all this water off the Pennine hills and via the many tributaries runs into the Bradford Beck. Therefore what is usually a small watercourse/river suddenly becomes a massive raging torrent of water.
The Bradford beck has flooded the City of Bradford many times over the years the last major flood was in 1982. Resulting in drastic action. A massive flood tunnel/ storm relief tunnel was built to take the excess water past the bulk of the city of Bradford drastically reducing the risk of flooding in the city centre. In this urbex adventure we go into the Bradford beck much of which today is culverted resulting in it being an underground river. We follow the route of the beck to the massive flood tunnel Bypass. The huge concrete structure was built between 1990 and 1993. It is around 1km long and at times it is 196 feet below the cit of Bradford. The other culverts are Victorian and Edwardian and have some amazing victorian architecture. The Bradford beck was used to provide water to the mills and industry during the Industrial revolution but also became foul. Thus it was culverted and disappeared underground. This video is an urbex underground adventure following a lost river.