There are a few more references in here: https://www.cambriancavingcouncil.org.uk/registry/ccr_registry_view.php?ID=809 The Gloucester Newsletters were available online for download when I last looked...

Interest piqued by Graham Proudlove's mentions of Xero in "A Series of Short Passages" I found this ebook/blog to be well worth exploring aurally and visually: http://www.solomonrobson.com/xintro-new-writing.htm There is even a photo from when he 'used to go potholing' in his scrapbook of...

Without wishing to detract from the well deserved reputation of Descent as a reliable source of news, I think I should point out that the Newsdesk article on the belated news of the death of Dr G.E.Wilford contains a number of small errors. Rather than enumerate them here I will direct anyone...

There was also a BSA Speleological Conference in Swansea in 1939 - https://www.nature.com/articles/144149e0 and https://www.nature.com/articles/144319a0 "In 1939 the importance of South Wales as a caving area was recognised by the British Speleological Association who held their annual...

I understand that all places have now been filled, but there is a reserve list and it would not hurt to register your interest if you have missed out so that future demand can be assessed. Another walk is being planned for the spring to the contrasting Black Mountain area between Herbert's...

An interesting read, not least for the expedition's origin in archival material, and for its insights into the local cultural attitudes to caves, their uses, and their ownership. Badlad's view from Mulu [ paragraphs 3-5 of...

Cambrian Caving Council brings you another of the very popular geology walks with Alan Bowring, BBNPA’s geology expert (and ex-ULSA caver). Sunday 15 October 2023, 10.30am - mid afternoon A circular walk of 7km / 4.25 miles (and 300m / 1000ft of ascent) exploring aspects of this distinctive...

There were rather more than six cavers on the 1978 RGS/Sarawak gov expedition and the helicopters were from the Royal Malaysian Air Force. Many participants got free flights from the RAF via. Hong Kong and Brunei garrison transport, or with Cathay Pacific; times change! Nobody sailed from the...

That particular photo is this - https://archives.bcra.org.uk/archive.php?level=image&collection=clarke&document=miscyorkshire&item=2 - isn't it? But it would be well worth checking that not all of your album is duplicated, or if there are extra captions...

Langcliffe must be getting forgetful...his BCRA Online Archive even includes a photo of Gilbert Boldock (bold and bald, I note) in 1946 here: https://archives.bcra.org.uk/archive.php?level=document&collection=clarke&document=burtonmine

With respect, your opinion of iNatualist (developed overseas, as you note, at University of California, Berkeley, but used worldwide not just in this septic isle) doesn't seem to entirely agree with the managers of iRecord itself which actually imports verified records from iNaturalistUK as...

Pretty much all you might want to know accessible at https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/143617-Lampyris-noctiluca You can easily sign up and start recording your observations too - even speleo species....

Actually, maybe free access to Porth yr Ogof may be down to the National Park rather than NRW, but NRW also provide access to the Sychryd Gorge (without much mention of its caves). The National Park, and the Geopark, don't make a big deal of caves and caving but do acknowledge their presence...

I am not convinced that "they" are "actively hostile" [to caving] in Wales. In the case of NRW, they maintain unencumbered access to Porth yr Ogof and caves in the Clydach Gorge, and have handed their long-established, albeit largely indirect, control of Ogof Ffynnon Ddu and the caves of...

Who are 'those people' ? If they and their apologists did what you say then they should be exposed to stop the rot surely?