Eric Hensler's Third Caving Trip

langcliffe

langcliffe

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One of the pleasures to be had from furtlng about in old dusty files, is that one occasionally comes across a little gem. In this case, it is an account by Eric Hensler of his third caving trip - a trip to Swildon's Sump 1 on 2nd June 1934 in the company of six work colleagues. It was published in the Standard Telephones and Cables Ltd in-house magazine in 1935. Apologies for the difference in scales between the two pages.

Possibly a candidate for the MCRA Swildon's bibliography?

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Apparently Eric Hensler kept a caving diary as well as a log book, and his sister sent the Craven Pothole Club his very detailed diary entry for this particular trip. They published it in the Record no. 67, July 2002, pp. 26-30. It was evidently a bit of an epic trip. Unfortunately, for copyright reasons I cannot reproduce the article, but it is worth reading. The mystery photograph is also supposed to date from this trip (they did have a quarter-plate camera with them).
 
I met Eric Hensler when I was a teenager, not long after the screening of Sid Perou's classic TV film The Lost River of Gaping Gill, which featured his discovery of his long crawl in GG. It starts here at about 13.23.

Very nice chap. I was starstruck!
 
David Rose said:
I met Eric Hensler when I was a teenager, not long after the screening of Sid Perou's classic TV film The Lost River of Gaping Gill, which featured his discovery of his long crawl in GG. It starts here at about 13.23.

Very nice chap. I was starstruck!
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I caved with him in August 1968. The idea was to take him into the Far Country, but unfortunately he couldn't get through the Blowhole. He was a very nice chap - a real gentleman, in fact.
 
langcliffe said:
Apparently Eric Hensler kept a caving diary as well as a log book, and his sister sent the Craven Pothole Club his very detailed diary entry for this particular trip. They published it in the Record no. 67, July 2002, pp. 26-30. It was evidently a bit of an epic trip. Unfortunately, for copyright reasons I cannot reproduce the article, but it is worth reading. The mystery photograph is also supposed to date from this trip (they did have a quarter-plate camera with them).
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Hi Langcliffe

This copy of the record is on the “public” side of the CPC website so I assume it’s ok to post here.

Hopefully I won’t get in trouble from the committee 😉.

Ian
 
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