Joe Duxbury
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I have had images of 'Uncle Ned's Mendip Bat and Wild Mushroom Soup' on my PC for ages, but I don't know who originally produced it. Would somebody please tell me who it was?
I'm pretty sure Brian Prewer has, or had a can of this. I remember him telling me about its origins but it was so long ago I don't recall the details best to ask him.I have had images of 'Uncle Ned's Mendip Bat and Wild Mushroom Soup' on my PC for ages, but I don't know who originally produced it. Would somebody please tell me who it was?
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Is this really the definitive answer? Can we be sure that no other regular contributor to this site can offer further enlightenment/contribution to the topic? Possibly with links to an appropriate source? Asking for a friend.....Nearly! It was Tony Comer, I worked with him at Bath University. He showed me round Brown's Folly and several of the other abandoned mines round there. So it was him! I should have known!
Thanks, Brian, and John.
Yes, I can assure you this is the definitive answer.Is this really the definitive answer? Can we be sure that no other regular contributor to this site can offer further enlightenment/contribution to the topic? Possibly with links to an appropriate source? Asking for a friend.....
I expect so! But where is Conkwell Cave? It's not in my Mendip Underground (Irwin & Jarratt edition, 1993).This one?
Conkwell Cave No. 1 (near Bradford on Avon) - 22 August 1973
Source – Bristol Evening Post – 23 August 1973
PUPIL TRAPPED FOR TWO HOURS UNDER ROCK
A West schoolboy was recovering today from a two hour ordeal in a disused quarry trapped beneath a huge rock the size of a wardrobe.
Anthony Comer (18), of Dane Rise, Winsley, near Bradford-on Avon, had to be freed by firemen from a shaft in the disused Conkwell quarry at Winsley.