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    First Aid Kits

    Triangular bandage and electrical (or gaffer) tape. - But only if I'm being organised! The most important kit in many outdoor cases, is what you have with you & the ability to improvise. 6 months back, I ended up using a shirt sleeve, 2 gloves, a bike innertube & a cable tie as a pressure...
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    Peak cavernTrenches, mud collapse

    It's in Pitlamp's Peak Cavern book, page 60.
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    Brightest and hungriest black hole yet detected...............

    But only if you never glid before.
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    What do you talk about on trips?

    Ill take your word for it. It was still the funniest conversation, in the most bizarre situation that Ive ever witnessed!
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    What do you talk about on trips?

    Most memorable one: Heiseburgs uncertainty principle being discussed by a physics teacher, a postman and a mining engineer. It ending with the former being declared " bloody crackers", by the others.
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    Wellies / rain boots advice

    Not sure what youre looking at. Its used in linament etc. See also methyl salicylate.
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    Wellies / rain boots advice

    Flannel vest and long John's soaked in wintergreen & sewn into each autumn. Worked for my Great Grandad!
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    Aisholt. After 55 Years The Story Continues.

    Genuinely dry & dusty. Oh what luxury!!
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    This sort of thing exasperates me!

    That could be as gas!.............gangrene?🙂
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    ....and the cave passage this represents is??

    Similar here in the Potteries, where its called a dolly peg.
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    Best Ever Xmas Carols When You Don't Like Xmas Carols

    There' s always the school boy version; While Shepherds washed their socks by night All seated on some dynamite Light the fuse & you will see The quickest way to the cemetery. As sung in my junior school & no doubt countless others.🙂
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    Lamp & Check Meet - South Yorks

    Didn't realise you had it under UV - I should of guessed given the intensity of green! I've had a look through my old mining books re coloured glass to improve readability of gas gap. The only thing I can find is a paragraph in Statham's 1951 "Coal Mining" page 376 para. 1. Apparently blue...
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    Lamp & Check Meet - South Yorks

    Thanks for that, I was wondering if it might be a "mash-up", as I couldn't see how you would read a gas cap, with the glass obscuring the flame like that. It must be deputys workman lamp! :) Have you tried emailing Protector? I had cause to call there several times in the early 2000s & and the...
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    Lamp & Check Meet - South Yorks

    Nope, no idea about that glass either. As Les says, that lamp was well after the introduction of electric lamps, which pretty much put paid to "stag". BTW I was just a volunteer at Apedale. The sobriquet "Shotlighter" originated there, as a P take at my expense. I was digging a in a lead mine...
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    Lamp & Check Meet - South Yorks

    And IIRC, once they'd been drawn out, they were tempered to "Pidgeon wing blue". ( My great grandad & later my grandad, were foreman blacksmiths at Sneyd Colliery). "Pidgeon wing blue" was my Grandads description, when telling me how to do it. Daft, the things you remember.:)
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