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    Best Ever Costume Worn In A Song

    Alex Harvey wearing a loin cloth swinging two stone tomahawks singing the tomahawk kid 😉
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    Peak Speedwell System Survey Published

    Please may i purchase a printed survey
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    Wezzit?

    Templeton?
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    The Assault Course via Peak Cavern.

    The passage at the top of the pitches would in my opinion require some re engineering
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    British Fluorspar

    The liability of buying it bona vacantia would be a bad move.
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    Our new Inclusivity Coordinator

    Its about time the caving fraternity 'Woke' up to inclusivity (stated with tongue in cheek) knowing several bi / trans cavers. T
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    British Fluorspar

    If you go and look head down the main roadway about quarter of a mile there is a slit (right hand passage) follow this and you will come to a wall of sleepers with water seeping through, this is a dam / water gate holding water back under pressure. I have only seen it in wet weather, maybe the...
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    British Fluorspar

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    British Fluorspar

    It was blocked up
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    British Fluorspar

    Sadly high rake was subjected High explosive action to remove the fluorspar this action shatters the rock left in situ, it may not be suitable for climbing on
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    British Fluorspar

    The water from Douse Hole was intercepted by the main drive and was redirected into the raise that comes up from 'C' Drive it then went north towards neatherwater farm however i think it was pumped back up 'C' Drive and sent to Ladywash via the ventilation fans. I think that given time any...
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    Own up then! Who did it?

    Happens frequently in buxton, derbys when the coal mines flush during wet periods
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    Christmas greetings

    Wishing all of my troglodyte friends a merry Christmas and hope you have a damp dark experience for a present T pot
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    Peak pontification (split from Rowter Hole Update)

    I didn't see any evidence of T'owd man anywhere after the junction off to pilkingtons. However there are some indicators that he had looked there.
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    Peak pontification (split from Rowter Hole Update)

    The top climb of the assault course ends at a tube to the left, after 1.50 m a tight further left is encountered, i manged a left to right body manoeuvre to continue however with no-one watching my back i reversed out. The only observation was it was draughting an hooly. I also saw other leads...
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    Fixed Aids and Safety Installations

    Use natural belays where possible, oops sorry the safety brigade destroyed them, even red spots were removed and frowned upon, whatever happened to a good piton placement. Slings with nuts were even used as descent placements. 400ft shafts rigged with ladders on scaff bar with no back up. Hey...
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    Wezzit?

    Dr Banisters ?
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    Wezzit?

    Meregill
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    UMIST conferences

    1976 umist then leeds 1978 76 i seem to remember the swinging sporran followed by raffters night club on deansgate 78 after the stomp at silly o'clock knocked on me aunties door and she put eight of us up in the garret, left after a full fry up
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