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  1. Pitlamp

    Very silly pics

    I worked near to Thwaites' brewery (pronounced locally as "Twaitses") when that happened. Most folk thought it was hilarious and many went out of their way to take photographs of it. A lot of my misspent youth involved drinking Thwaites' ales and I was quite upset when they closed it down. Many...
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    BCA membership renewals will open on the 1st December.

    Successfully created my account and have put a note in the diary to pay my 2025 subscription on 1st December. Dead easy; many thanks for the clear instructions. (y)
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    Barabobath?

    Richard Whitcobe's WWAA is really interesting. It's great that these back stories were written down before many of them pass out of living memory. I wish someone would write an equivalent for the Dales, although it'd be a mammoth task. Perhaps it'd be a project better suited to a Wikipaedia...
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    Fencing help needed Sunday 10th Nov near Castleton

    Can they be used for bashing in the base of promising shakeholes? ;)
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    Bullpot Farm Rain Gauge - Not Working?

    Thanks - that's a relief - it's a phenomenally useful resource! Could you give us the heads up on here when it's running again, so we know if any further zero readings are genuine?
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    Powdonnet Well, Morland

    RF is on the list for scoping out at the first opportunity, honest!
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    Wezzit?

    Stonelands?
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    Adventures Underground 2nd Edition

    If anyone is interested to see a review, there's one here. (Thanks Alan!) https://darknessbelow.co.uk/book-review-adventures-underground/
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    Border Caving Group late 60s early 70s

    Where was the hostel?
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    The Dales: images from the Horner Collection on view 16/17 September

    Pretty sure it is Hull Pot - but by heck that's dry! Here's a recent picture of the same spot shot from the surface, in more normal water conditions. The very different angle makes it look a bit different but if you look closely some features are the same on both images. The dry waterfall is...
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    Dig robbers in the eastern Dales.

    I'll send you a P.M. Badlad
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    Old glass bottle question

    That lion emblem does look very much like the one on this bottle fragment!
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    Old glass bottle question

    Thanks - that information so far is already useful! Also thanks O.R. for asking on the bottle forum. What would be really useful would be to know when that design was discontinued.
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    Old glass bottle question

    I have a fragment of glass here from one of those old bottles which were sealed with a marble stopper. What writing there is says: . . DHAM BROS . . Below this there's a tiny raised lion emblem, to the right of which it says: "LION . . . This is a long shot but I know there are a few keen...
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    Slightly niche compass question….

    I suspect the problems of actually reading graduations on a compass accurately enough underwater shouldn't be underestimated. Not all of the compass error is due to errors directly caused by the compass itself. Steve does lot of surveying in French conditions (and the results of his team's...
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    Kendal Mountain Festival - The Risk Sessions followed by feature film 'Diving into Darkness' Sat 23 Nov

    That Rebecca Williams session looks potentially very interesting; wish I could be there. It would be great if someone could post a summary of the conclusions on here afterwards?
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    Littondale road closure in November

    There are signs up warning that the main road in Littondale is to be closed from Monday 11th to Wednesday 13th November. As you drive up the dale the area in question is the narrow section about half a mile past the wiggle in the road where it crosses Sleets Gill, i.e. down dale from Arncliffe...
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    Wezzit?

    Cornes' or Oakes' Cavern?
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    Rowten Sumps

    To try to add a little value (hopefully) to George's helpful post above, just be aware that low water does not necessarily equal better visibility. Having spent the greater part of my life avidly studying visibility in Dales sumps, I'll try to explain. A lot depends on time of year and...
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    History of caving in the Dales

    Fascinating how the letter "f" was still being used in place of "s". . . . and yet the 2nd of those scans has a word using both: "foffils"!
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