The Mystery of the Hardwick Road Culvert Wellingborough

[@EssexTrueCrime]

Gave this a good watch last night. Brilliant video,thanks for the info and the spring water part. Def taking the lil man up there when he’s over next 👌🏻

[@PurpleVision23]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@carlyloasby8708]

Ah do I love the vids you post of this area, it’s somewhere I walk through regularly as it’s pretty much on my doorstep. Would be interesting to see you do a video on Brickhill Road as I used to live in one of the houses that owned the orchards and to know the history on it would be so cool, I wouldn’t know where to start on that. Just an idea- keep up the good work 😄

[@PurpleVision23]

I know just the thing.. ill get it filmed

[@carlyloasby8708]

@@PurpleVision23 that’d be awesome, Thankyou!

[@eastmidlandstrainspotter2014]

Great video friend

[@thathurt]

I used to walk up that road a lot to my dad's at Windermere Drive/Queensway end. His block of flats were built on flood plain so the developers included some different drainage thing when building. Next door to Langdale Court is a big dug out area which never did but could fill with precipitation when needed so flood defence near by makes sense. 👍

[@EssexTrueCrime]

Love that area

[@nickhill2223]

Top side of the Hardwick Road is a Balancing Pond. Basically due to all the Development upstream, in times of heavy rainfall there would suddenly be a big rush of water, (where as before the building work, the land would have soaked up the water and drained naturally), so to prevent the Culvert getting overwhelmed and/or flooding downstream, the Balancing Pond was dug to hold back the water in times of heavy rainfall, and let it through at a controlled rate. I'd imagine the culvert was built in the Victorian times to allow thw road to be built above, bricks were the preferred method of construction and a lot of the Brickwork drainage from that time is a work of art. Remember balancing on the Headwall, pulling rubbish off the grille that had washed down after a night of heavy rain, when I worked for WBC in the 90's. Now any new development has to have some method of retaining the rainwater on site, as it can only be discharged at a rate no greater than before the building took place.

[@PurpleVision23]

Ahh awesome so it is to protect the goodies further down just as I thought. A real fine piece of architecture

[@peterchesher5215]

Great video. What Nick Hill says it spot on, its exactly what I thought the reason for the culvert was. Would have been fascinating to have had a timelapse camera on the area and other places like the swanspool etc when there was that monster rainfall in August 2020. Perhaps a future video for you to do if there's forecast of biblical rainfall again.

[@PurpleVision23]

@@peterchesher5215 that would be awesome. Great idea

[@PurpleVision23]

That all makes perfect sense, thank you so much for that. yh there is a whole row of balancing ponds up on stanton cross, where spike Island used to be. All amazing history and thank you for your time in helping me solve this puzzle.

[@tptptptp8027]

Thanks for that….is a lot of the springs undrinkable ? How do you test the water? What’s your opinion on what’s been done to the waters…I’m not very trusting with our Governments….?

[@PurpleVision23]

I don't blame you, I done it with the professional kit just didn't have the bacterial test to go with it.. I'll redo and film it for yas

[@PurpleVision23]

I also personally think the government are the ones who poisoned it

[@PurpleVision23]

Bugsy got barrs

[@thathurt]

Theres a weir. I never knew. 😂

[@eastmidlandstrainspotter2014]

Hi how are you

[@PurpleVision23]

I'm good thanks bud, just working on another master piece