Martin Laverty
Member
Peter Standing died back in November.
He started caving with the Gloucester SS in the Forest of Dean and went on to the University of Bristol where he was prominent in the UBSS explorations of the Little Neath River Cave. He was a doctor when he joined the Ghar Parau expedition, and practiced as a GP in Bury until retiring to Morecambe Bay, whence he took a new degree in Geography at Lancaster University, studied the area's karst and glacial erratics, joined the Red Rose CPC, and was very active in promoting interest in the area: the latest edition of Arnside and Silverdale AONB Landscape Trust's magazine, Keer to Kent, has an appreciation.
He was also a prominent climber and fellwalker [https://rucksackclub.org/2019/11/25/peter-standing/] and covered most of Britain, some idea of which is given by his photos on https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/5210 which tie in with a rather esoteric interest in the OS National Grid [ http://www.geograph.org.uk/article/In-Search-of-OV0000 ]. He gave many talks, such as https://www.evensi.uk/talk-50-shades-grey-limesto?/247114985 etc...
Amongst his lesser known achievements is the inadvertent introduction of Dick Willis to caving...
He started caving with the Gloucester SS in the Forest of Dean and went on to the University of Bristol where he was prominent in the UBSS explorations of the Little Neath River Cave. He was a doctor when he joined the Ghar Parau expedition, and practiced as a GP in Bury until retiring to Morecambe Bay, whence he took a new degree in Geography at Lancaster University, studied the area's karst and glacial erratics, joined the Red Rose CPC, and was very active in promoting interest in the area: the latest edition of Arnside and Silverdale AONB Landscape Trust's magazine, Keer to Kent, has an appreciation.
He was also a prominent climber and fellwalker [https://rucksackclub.org/2019/11/25/peter-standing/] and covered most of Britain, some idea of which is given by his photos on https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/5210 which tie in with a rather esoteric interest in the OS National Grid [ http://www.geograph.org.uk/article/In-Search-of-OV0000 ]. He gave many talks, such as https://www.evensi.uk/talk-50-shades-grey-limesto?/247114985 etc...
Amongst his lesser known achievements is the inadvertent introduction of Dick Willis to caving...