With the Mansions as our base, between 1949 and 1953 we visited all the classic Mendip caves including August Hole, which was then very new and many mine shafts. We dug at Nod's Pot, Middle Down Drove Swallet (Tiddle-Tum-Tum), Reservoir Hole, the so-called Priddy Green passage in Swildon's and Badger Hole.
We discovered, explored and surveyed the Black Hole Series and the St. Paul's Series in Swildon's and we explored Ludwell Rising. We geologised in Lamb Leer, Waldergrave Swallet and the closed basins south east of Cheddar Gorge and we surveyed in Swildon's and various Cheddar caves. Some idle afternoons were spent in pioneering technical rock climbs on the little cliff opposite the Mansions.