Hi, I've been lurking around here for a while, I used to have an account on the older version of this forum.

Having read this thread, if you're after images of the river underground and a few sites, you might want to take a look at this urban explorer website: 28 Days Later forum

There's some huge drainage system running under Sheffield (dubbed the megatron) which people often wander down to take pictures of,

e.g.

Just search for Sheffield for some interesting views or Megatron for the huge underground drains.. not sure if it's really what you're after for this video, but it might help :)

Oh there's several. The river does run through a concrete culvert at the end of Queens Road before a traffic island, on Suffolk road it runs through a narrow concrete channel but in front of the station and not near any particular traffic island and in the Pond Hill candidate the photo is facing the worng way; there is a concrete channel at the other end of the exposed section of river (currently undergoing some intense building work. Cue amused glances from Sheffield workmen as I appear to photograph them yesterday) but once again in front of the station and quite a way from the huge traffic island. My personal fave is the culvert at Queens road. It has been built up somewhat recently and the traffic island there has been replaced. So...take yer pick! I know about megatron, the issue is that that section of tunnel does not correspond to anywhere in the song geographically. Also, we're talikng about two different rivers here in these concrete channels and in fact there are five rivers in Sheffield all of which conflate to become one river in the song.

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The Queen's Road one looks pretty good. From space, anyway. It's a lengthier stretch and perhaps more worthy of a visit by the narrator in the song. Also, maybe saying it was "after the Leadmill" refers to its proximity to the venue rather than being a reference to an event that happened there - an early Pulp gig, for example. The more you think about it, the more likely Queen's seems.

saw119 wrote:

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I know about megatron, the issue is that that section of tunnel does not correspond to anywhere in the song geographically.

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 Sure thing, but even so there's generic river talk "flowing through dirty brickwork conduits" and "on for miles and miles" etc. :)

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Might be more suited for a homage to Firestarter rather than Wickerman