Margaret Hunter Scarr - Bull Pot

[JAA]

I suspect very few active cavers now will remember Margaret and her husband farming at Bull Pot (although they lived at Gale Garth) but her funeral was held on Thursday. Another Swaledale resident before her marriage

British Caving Library

caving-library.org.uk

 

[JAA]

 

[JAA]

The recording is an interesting one, not only because for me it’s like listening to my grandmother and the way she used to puzzle over people going down lead mines, but because a lot of those who gripe and whinge about landowners and farmers would do well to note that actually she was quite happy to work with the “red rose potholers” to find a compromise that suited everyone, was interested in what they found and cared about people’s safety under their land.

 

[Alan Sp8]

I met Margaret when seeking permission for a diving project near Casterton on land that she owned.
She told me of the time she went down the newly discovered Lancaster Hole.
There is an interview on the Caving Audio Archive