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    A positive history of coal?

    Try YouTube
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    David Webb's "The Hollow Hill - The Story Of The Ecton Mines" on Youtube

    John Barnatt's book 'Delving Ever Deeper' is an excellent description of these mines.
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    Worst Cave Conservation Photographs

    That'll get the 'free access for all' clique going lol
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    The decaying remains of a Welsh quarry abandoned decades ago.

    RE Penwllt wagon. It's made by Hornby...
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    The decaying remains of a Welsh quarry abandoned decades ago.

    For those of a nerdy disposition, there's an 00 gauge mineral wagon 'Penwllt' made by either Bachmann or Dapol. Can't remember which,, and too lazy to check through 100-odd wagons to find out...lol
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    Jane McCorquodale - MNRC

    Sorry to hear this. Known Jane for many years. She will be missed.
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    Not cave access but...

    Sounds fishy....
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    Pumping from Russett Well into the water mains............

    What's the relationship between Russet Well and Slop Moll? I always get these two confused....
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    Standing stones in grykes around Ingleborough

    No limestone here either... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_o%27_Many_Stanes
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    Standing stones in grykes around Ingleborough

    *Pedant mode ON* Most stone circles are Bronze Age. *Pedant mode OFF*
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    Standing stones in grykes around Ingleborough

    Maybe Braveduck would be better communicating his scepticism to the researchers. After all, fake stone settings aren't exactly unknown to professional archaeologists....
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    Hidden Earth 2022

    There's some good points made.... But:- Is it better to scale down the event, or not have the event at all? Which seems to be the choice made here.
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    Hidden Earth 2022

    The 'core values' I was referring to are related to the ability to meet people in person to share information and discuss topics. Descent can share information and UKC can promote discussion (after a fashion) but neither is as good (to me) as meeting face to face. But I guess it's academic. If...
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    Hidden Earth 2022

    Might be time to think about scaling down the event to core values. Things like information sharing and expedition updates. All singing and dancing AV presentations competitions and the like are all very well but to me they were always 'extras'. This isn't to knock the ambitions or hard work of...
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    Silly question about Leicestershire Slate

    Yes. I think Trevor Ford cut his teeth round there too. It was a pupil at Attenborough's school that found the Charnia specimen
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