Crete Rd Reservoir and the hills reservoir 17/11/2010

Right a visit has been long over due..crete road the facts as is written are these

Construction work on the reservoir was completed on 2nd July 1866 and was used to supply a nearby soft drink factory in Folkestone with water. There are two tanks, each approximately 88ft long and lined with cement.

The second thing we came Across behind a big steel door in near by woodlands ive done a quick scour of the net and i nelieve its called the hills reservoir..if im wrong please feel free to inform me..i believe its about 600 yeards long and i think was built around 1953 and atthe far end is valves and various pipes etc and a ladder leading into a room ,with a locked gate at top of ladder so thats as far as we got..

crete rd it self i didnt faff around with effects or playing around with lighting i was cold wet and glad i didnt slip 14 odd foot of the metal beam to my cameras death so i got some pics..
Visited with uncle B and nite walker

Right crete road first whic ive been told and now realise would have been so much nicer during the day to find and explore













Not a huge amount of pics you can get from inside this place unless you have the time to play with some different coloured lighting or maybe play with some things that burn which funnily enuff i didnt bring...

Right onto the Hills reservoir or at least the tunnel leading up to the pumping room which was locked tight!!















Right not the most epic of adventures,but crete road has been in mind for a while and the second part behind the big door was a bonus..cheers to obs for the nod about said door..

Very nicely lit pictures - and that other site was a real bonus

nice one dude, these are defo some of your best pictures yet. Evenly lit and exposed
It may have take a few phone calls and a load of texts but ya got round everything in the end.
Good effort

Obscurity wrote:

nice one dude, these are defo some of your best pictures yet. Evenly lit and exposed
It may have take a few phone calls and a load of texts but ya got round everything in the end.
Good effort

Its the curse of the night time explorer who doesnt wanna spend half the night wandering around ..your the fone a friend soption

Good stuff Wevs, Quality place and cracking photos!

Mr Fro wrote:

Good stuff Wevs, Quality place and cracking photos!

cheers mr fro..just worked out to get even lighting if i actuall bother using flood to spot on me torch..lazy at times i guess

It's one I'm planning to do in the next few weeks (the Victorian part anyway) but I'm not looking forward to walking across that beam

Canute wrote:

It's one I'm planning to do in the next few weeks (the Victorian part anyway) but I'm not looking forward to walking across that beam

chris i was worryng bout that i dont have the best of balance due to my 2nd fav hobby ..beer!!you can hold both sides of the wall and once over the first bit theres a ladder down really was a doddle

Cheers mate. Have you done Grain Battery yet? There's a bit there where you cross from the Martello tower to the accommodation block - if you're cool you walk across a concrete plank - er ... I crawled

Canute wrote:

Cheers mate. Have you done Grain Battery yet? There's a bit there where you cross from the Martello tower to the accommodation block - if you're cool you walk across a concrete plank - er ... I crawled

nope not yet mate its a tad of a drive for a night time one with me and uncle b