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| | | Re: Under the Garden City: Victoria B.C. secret tunnels. < Reply # 3869 on 10/1/2017 7:16 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | saw some interesting things lastnight on a solo trip explored a buncha potential entrances around town, especially near the infamous blanshard courts also. anyone spend any time learning about our manholes? i noticed some of the majour drains share a manhole style? anyone have info on this?
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| htp123
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| | | Re: Under the Garden City: Victoria B.C. secret tunnels. < Reply # 3870 on 10/2/2017 5:43 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | http://www.islandn...manhole_covers.htm Most of them were made locally, check around Victoria and Esquimalt for Victoria Foundry and Victoria Machine Depot stamped ones. Downtown also has several remaining BC Electric Railway covers. Oak Bay has some fancy imported ones. The new ones don't have any identifying markings, and you can often find them with cracks. There isn't much of a pattern as it relates to drains. Older ones tend to have more of the waffle pattern ones, but they also often have new ones. Likewise, newer drains often have older manhole covers, either because they joined to an older manhole shaft, or just because that's what they had available. If it's marked sewer/sanitary, it is in all likelihood an actual sewer. There are some mix-ups, but I would guess the vast majority are correct. There's a local draining thread buried around here by the way: http://www.uer.ca/...=1&threadid=115249
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| EK91
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| | | Re: Under the Garden City: Victoria B.C. secret tunnels. < Reply # 3872 on 10/4/2017 8:05 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Oh geeze. I just read this entire thread from start to finish, and woah what a journey. Only took me like 5 days, because man am I an avid reader. Such history here, such vivid imagery. It was like I was reading "It" all over again! Good work everyone from the start of this thread until now on the research and time you put in. Such an incredible city with a fascinating history. I had no idea draining was a thing until I stumbled upon this forum, nor did I know such beautiful architecture was right below my feet. I have only lived here, in downtown Victoria for 2 years, but I have been so fascinated by all the old, derelict buildings strewn about. I actually work in a building built in 1931, so not as old as some, and it's quite a boring structure... but alas. I noticed the bricked over doorway/windows along the rock walls of the parking lots when I first explored my new home, I always thought in my head "I wonder if tunnels exist here?"... I have done the Seattle Underground Tour, and just hoped that something like that actually existed beneath these city streets. It's amazing to know that likely, something did, but I am saddened to see the city had such a careless attitude about such history. I love that Seattle (after much red tape) actually opened such history to the public. Anyway, I am just rambling. Super excited that I found this, and thank you all for teaching me something new and allowing me to partake in the journey with you through your words. It's been a ride, and I'm sad that I came to the end so quickly.
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| Artemis
Location: Victoria, B.C, Canada Gender: Male Total Likes: 35 likes
When Zombies come, I'll be in the burrow!
| | | Re: Under the Garden City: Victoria B.C. secret tunnels. < Reply # 3875 on 10/14/2017 6:45 PM > | Reply with Quote
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| htp123
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| | | Re: Under the Garden City: Victoria B.C. secret tunnels. < Reply # 3879 on 10/26/2017 4:11 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Victoria Night stalker A look under Broad street
| Nice! I haven't seen many shots of those, and never been in one myself. I do wonder how extensive they are. There's a manhole with light shining through it from below sometimes just a bit further north on Broad, and this is what used to be in between: http://3.bp.blogsp...+Fort+and+View.jpg You can't really make out Broad in that, but those other doorways do look like they passed under the road at one point, they look consistent with the buildings above. There are other manholes-with-light-shining-through-them downtown as well. -- Unrelated, there's a construction hole on Wharf St near the old custom's house right now. The hole itself isn't interesting, but there is a layer of brick on one side and what looks like a partial break-through to another cavity. I really don't know why there would be brick there other than to support something below. Wharf St hasn't really ever changed, beyond getting re-surfaced, and I don't think they used bricks for that.
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