Iron Ladder in Alum Pot

[darkdescender]

One of me climbing a rope ladder, bottom of Lancaster, early '50's. Around the time of the 'Yorkshire key'  :ang:

 

[langcliffe]

One of me climbing a rope ladder, bottom of Lancaster, early '50's. Around the time of the 'Yorkshire key'  :ang:

We now have photos in this thread depicting the main ways of negotiating Lancaster Hole entrance shaft used over the last 70+ years: iron ladder, rope ladder, electron ladder, and SRT. I think that is fabulous!

 

[langcliffe]

(& the first photo includes a lady in a skirt):

I have been corrected by someone who is just a little older but a lot more knowledgeable than I am, that the lady in the photograph was Christine Rawdin. My copy of the photograph is wrongly captioned. Apologies for having propagated an alternative truth.

 

[JasonC]

This is an interesting read, it mentions the ladders being fitted (from railway signal boxs) ...
http://www.rrcpc.org.uk/easegill/text/Early_explore.htm

It is an interesting read!  It makes the shenanigans at a certain Welsh cave look tame in comparison.

 

[Allan]

Ah more fake news.
Seriously though, do we have a picture of Kath Gilbert (nee Bingham) in the archive?

 

[langcliffe]

Ah more fake news.
Seriously though, do we have a picture of Kath Gilbert (nee Bingham) in the archive?

Only the one here