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....and the cave passage this represents is??

Roger ;



No, but my dad once told us a horrible story about a distant relative of his who got dragged into an industrial mangle in a big laundry facility . . . the last thing she ever did.
My mother had her arm pulled through a neighbours electric mangle when I was a kid, I can still hear the screams 35 yrs later. Ouch.
 
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Saw this today when queuing - I bet I was the only person in that long line who saw it and thought about caving 😁

Do you have a random object that reminds you of or represents a cave, formation, featuree queue for caving related reasons

That queue made us think of caving too! The cheese they were giving out while we waited was called Yoredale - can't be many cheeses named after a geological series.
 
Here's one for Mendip cavers:
 

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Mangle Hole on Mendip still contains the rollers, although rest of original has deteriorated

Of course there are also the Buttertubs in Yorkshire
 
Posser is a new word to me. My mother used to use a dolly, which was why it was called a dolly tub.

I believe a marmite is a cooking pot for stews and casseroles, so the cave relevance is very similar to "Dollytubs" and not to do with brown sludge.
 
Posser is a new word to me. My mother used to use a dolly, which was why it was called a dolly tub.

I believe a marmite is a cooking pot for stews and casseroles, so the cave relevance is very similar to "Dollytubs" and not to do with brown sludge.
Similar here in the Potteries, where its called a dolly peg.
 
I’ve heard them called “poss tubs” in swaledale certainly.
I think 'poss' is reasonably common, there was a poss stick mill down by the river here until the 1920's (Durham Derwent). My Mum had a single tub Hoover with an agitator, mechanical poss stick a bit like a domestic version of those tubs on the dressing floor at Killhope, and a rather lethal electric powered mangle, but the niff of washing and the steam was quite pleasant. There was also a drying maiden above the boiler in the kitchen.

Crumbs, those were the days.... sort of.

Jim
 
I’ve still got my drying maiden thing above the fire in the front room, it’s ace! And makes the house smell lovely!
 
It may be very regional, but what you're calling a "poss", in the coal mining area of east Derbyshire we called a "ponch".
 
I’ve still got my drying maiden thing above the fire in the front room, it’s ace! And makes the house smell lovely!

I've got a proper drying maiden in front of the stove right now, with all my wet running gear on.
But that doesn't seem to smell quite as nice . . . 🥴

Happy Christmas everybody! 🎄
 
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Bang on Mark; I thought a Derbyshire caver of your calibre would soon get that!

I remember when there was a pumping exercise there. Later, Ray Fairholome asked me to stick my head it it with a tank on. It didn't go unfortunately.

OK, you think of something to exercise our minds now!
 
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