Morning all,
How marvelous to see East Twin Swallet hitting the head lines. I too hope Andy is wrong, I've been going down there for the past 15 years

hope still springs eternal!. As for digging for digging sake, maybe you're right.
SBSS can only apologise for the state of the cave at the moment and we'll look to tidying it up so there is a clear way through the cave. We do however enter the following defense
1) There has been a collapse (slump) below the entrance to Spar Pot, we've just taken delivery of a load of materials to shore the place up. Unfortunately it is difficult to hide.
2) The cave (and we are going back 25yrs) was originally dug in the dry and allowed a lots of spoil to be loosely stockpiled. Following works in Burrington Coombe the stream was redirected down the cave. This did two things, destabilized a whole lot of soil and wash alot of the cover away from buried plastic bags etc etc, agreed making it somewhat unsightly
3) There are babies all over the place in the club at the moment and with a hot summer, digging has not been the total focus. September is upon us and the digging season begins.
We hope to stabilize below Spar pot by Xmas and get on with repairs to the monorail. We are still mad enough to believe that the dig will go somewhere. If you've been there and have any advise, more the merrier. The dig and the rift down to Spar pot are a very annoying angle and this provides some technical problems when trying to instal supports. Contact us on
sbss@blueyonder.co.uk progress on the dig and the history is on
www.sbss.infoIn the meantime if you do go down we do not recommend going below spar pot and take care when going past the connection. We are due to report to UBSS with a update on the dig and will do so
Regards
Chris Whale
(SBSS Chairman)