Pitlamp
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Duck ditch said:Most people call it sand caverns these days. I think I called south east passage, lumbago way.
I think what?s interesting is the rough sketch of Henslers. It looks a bit of a last minute add on. Otherwise most other passages seem fairly accurate. Grainger and Simpson are credited for the survey. Is Eric Hensler the next generation. Or not part of Simpson?s team. Or it?s just been found and Eric did a rough survey and was allowed to add it to Simpson and Graingers survey.
Hensler's Passage was found on a solo trip by Eric Hensler in 1937. There's a good article in one of the original (BSA) editions of "Caves and Caving" magazine, which was published (from memory) the following year, i.e. 1938.
That survey drawing you included is a version of the original BSA survey but republished so that Hensler's Passage could be added. The Hensler's Passage survey was done mainly by Eric Hensler and Monty Grainger, who were probably the "young tigers" at the time. Monty maintained an interest in surveying in GG and was the main driving force behind the "Peveril Underground Survey Association" survey of the system done in the first half of the 1960s. The latter was (again, from memory) published with a CPC Journal in 1964, I think.
The PUSA survey of the system is magnificent; Monty had artistic skills as well as an ability to survey with precision. At least one important extension has been discovered as a result of carefully studying the detail on it for clues.
Monty lived in a large house on the outskirts of Bradwell and was what is generally regarded as a "character". As a youth I knew him in the latter stages of his life, as he used to attend GG winch meets in the 70s. I could go on but this is now off topic.