1940’s Marble Steps?

JAA

JAA

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Happened across this album of 1940’s photos of Marble Steps Pot on eBay… Anyone know who R Patchett was? Or fancy buying it!
The same seller has a fair few 1940’s cave pictures mostly Rift Pot/GG on BPC trips supposedly.
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snebbit

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BPC May 2021 bulletin:
[..] Arnold Patchett has assured me several years ago, that the ‘Library’ was already in existence in 1935 when he joined the BPC [...]

Perhaps a mis-spelling on the eBay item, or a relative of Arnold, both being Bradford cavers in the 40s?
 
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cavingbiker

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Snebbit, Maybe I'm just being thick, but I don't understand your comment. The BPC has always valued having a library comprising of publications (from around the world) relating to caving and outdoor activities. The photos on offer on Ebay are not being sold by the BPC. The Patchett's caved with the BPC back in the 1930's and 1940's.
 
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mikem

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Seems to be just a transcription error, as other items are from A. N. Patchett (which was Arnold - 1st post says R. N.). Being sold by a dealer in Hebden, near Grassington - apparently separated from an album:

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mikem

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Going to be a few thousand to buy the lot, over 60 items listed between £10 & £200 each (mostly £60-120)
 
snebbit

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cavingbiker said:
Snebbit, Maybe I'm just being thick, but I don't understand your comment. The BPC has always valued having a library comprising of publications (from around the world) relating to caving and outdoor activities
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Cavingbiker I think you misunderstood me, it was just a quote in a BPC bulletin I spotted when looking up the name and was just posting as a possibility of the identity of the mystery Patchett as it matched the timeframe and Bradfordness :) The quote isn't relevant, just the name.
 
Pitlamp

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As a matter of interest, it was Arnold Patchett who pushed the Far Eastern Bedding Plane in Ingleborough Cave, shortly after the war, from memory. This paved the way for Bob Leakey to go on to discover the Inauguration Caverns (including Terminal Lake) in 1953.

Arnold continued to visit the BPC's annual winch meet at GG, well into this millennium, until he sadly passed away.
 
Pitlamp

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Ha ha!

I said it was Arnold who pushed it, not me. (My "memory" is of reading the BPC publication that records this. It would be quite a lot of years afterwards that I was born, let alone go caving!)

I'm no spring chicken - but give me a break . . . ;-)
 
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