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[Ian Ball]

Marble Arch Cave

 

[mikem]

Unfortunately the link doesn't give any details, but they had a bit of flooding issue whilst it was open on Sunday

 

[Goydenman]

Wow that's a dramatic video

 

[SqueezyPete]

This retroactively made my trip the previous day feel more sporting...

 

[Lankyman]

Thank goodness nobody dropped their phone!

 

[mrodoc]

We were there last year in wet conditions but that was steady rain. There are monitors on the sinks but of course localised flash flooding is another issue. To see water cascading down the entrance/exit steps is impressive! When we were there the tourist route was trimmed down over the day as the waters steadily rose - whether you paid less I don't know. These caves are by far the most impressive show caves in the British Isles by the way and the above ground development sympathetic with the landscape. A trip up Legnabrocky Way is a must if you are visiting the system.

 

[alanw]

To see water cascading down the entrance/exit steps is impressive!

White Scar Flood in 2016. Interestingly, You Tube completed the "flood" bit of my search as I was typing "White Scar".

 

[Lankyman]

White Scar Flood in 2016. Interestingly, You Tube completed the "flood" bit of my search as I was typing "White Scar".

White Scar was one of the first show caves I visited as a kid in the early seventies. I recall that it was flooded beyond the first waterfall so we just got a (very) short tour of the first tunnel, much discounted. I can't recall now if we came back later and got the full tour or if that was on a different day. The Battlefield wasn't available back then of course. I did get the booklet, price 2 shillings (10p for younger readers) with an introduction written by one E. Simpson.

 

[mrodoc]

Off topic but related to White Scar and perhaps partly why I got keen on caves from an early age was the story that my late aunt had had an after hours trip into the cave being poled across the lake beyond to Big Bertha. In my mind I imagined a vast flooded chamber with a boulder with size of a house at the end. Can't have been long after the place opened as a show cave as we are probably talking pre war. It was a big disappointment to me when I did visit the cave and found myself wading up the lake in a not very big passage to a not very impressive boulder. However the streamway beyond is excellent.

 

[Lankyman]

Off topic but related to White Scar and perhaps partly why I got keen on caves from an early age was the story that my late aunt had had an after hours trip into the cave being poled across the lake beyond to Big Bertha. In my mind I imagined a vast flooded chamber with a boulder with size of a house at the end. Can't have been long after the place opened as a show cave as we are probably talking pre war. It was a big disappointment to me when I did visit the cave and found myself wading up the lake in a not very big passage to a not very impressive boulder. However the streamway beyond is excellent.

It was standing at the barrier at the then end of the show cave and looking beyond that fired my young imagination. That and reading the descriptions in the leaflet, the centre spread survey with names like First Lake, Second Lake, Big Bertha and Swifts Lake. I absolutely had to see these things for myself and subsequently devoured everything I could find about caves and caving.