Old B&W Film of Treak Cliff Cavern 1966

[Mark]

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Armed with only a hammer and chisel Cyril Harrison sets to work extracting Derbyshire's famous Blue John stone - a prize rumoured to have been treasured since Roman times.

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Armed with only a hammer and chisel Cyril Harrison sets to work extracting Derbyshire's famous Blue John stone - a prize rumoured to have been treasured since Roman times

 

[Lankyman]

I wonder if I met Cyril Harrison? When I was a kid I used to pester my parents to take us to see show caves. At Treak Cliff, the guide could see I was mad about caves and he went off into the workings and got me a chunk of Blue John about the same size as the one he presented to the reporter right at the end. This would have been around four or five years after the film.

 

[Jim MacPherson]

Perhaps bung it on buddlepit as well as it's as much mining as caving.

Jim

 

[Goydenman]

1966 was the year I moved with my parents to between Hope and Castleton. Trevor Ford took me and Harrison's son on our first caving trip down Peak Cavern .....never been sane since lol

 

[Jim MacPherson]

Perhaps bung it on buddlepit as well as it's as much mining as caving.

Jim

Ooops! Sorry just found on Buddlepit, I blame the clock change.

Jim