Photo of Buster Wright

[Fishes]

Ah - it's not Old Bess Shaft then, as that's north of the farm. I can't remember the name of these mines but I don't think it's Yatestoop - AR will remember faster than me

Plackett?

Placket is to the west of Winster, Just down the lane near the churchyard.

Please note that my previouscomment on the shaft location in Marks phot should have said west rather than east.

 

[AR]

If it's west of the red circle then it likely will be on the Yatestoop pipe, after that you're into Limekiln, Drake, and the wonderfully named Shitten Hole. Having dropped Limekiln Mine (aka Pork Sandwich shaft) several years ago and seen the bedding plane caves full of sediment that the miners were digging through, I now now why it got that rather blunt name! Going back to Buster, I've got some unfinished business at Limekiln, he left something down there that needs fettling but the farm's changed hands; I need to prod John Wood into going down there and getting permissions again!

 

[pwhole]

Just about still on-topic - John Wood in a bit of dug-out (by miners) natural in the Yatestoop workings, accessed via the Wet Sough/internal shaft route. This section doesn't go too far, being blocked off from the rest of the workings, but there was at least one decent-sized phreatic tube in this area completely full of orange sediment.

 

[Mark]

Another pic of Buster

 

[Mark Wright]

Another one of Buster with Alan Medhurst and me in Castleton from the early 1980's.

Mark

 

[yrammy]

That's a good photo I might steal a copy! 

 

[Wardy]

Nice one Mark.
You hardly seem to have aged at all.
Fortunately it looks like you only got served chips at that age!

 

[alastairgott]

I've got these photo's, I'm afraid I don't know who's in them or in some cases what caves they're in, but all I know is they were slotted in with the club accounts when I took over as Treasurer in an envelope marked TSG.

Maybe there's one of Buster in there? I also have no idea what era they're from, i'd guess late 80's early 90's but that's a pure guess.

 

[Mrs Trellis]

I'd go the 60's. Someone has a Premier carbide lamp on.

If you have the time during lockdown you might scan them individually.

 

[Mark Wright]

I'd go the 60's. Someone has a Premier carbide lamp on.

We were using Premier carbide lamps well into the 80's

Mark

 

[bograt]

Early to mid 80's, some of them look like "piggy back" shots of the Peak Cavern photo project from that era. Don't see Buster on any, he was involved in a big climbing project in there at the same time.

 

[Pitlamp]

Completely agree; early to mid 80s.

But . . . a couple of them look like GG rather than in Derbyshire.

For years Buster had a motorbike. If I remember rightly it was a 550 cc model, painted black. I was always jealous of it! Out of interest, does anyone have a picture of him in the bike?

 

[bograt]

His first bike was a Honda CB250, I borrowed it to take my bike test on in about '84, just before the two part test came in for motorbikes, he then progressed to a Goldwing 500 with a lords and ladies seat, a beautiful bike, he was extremely proud of it and kept it pristine.

 

[Mark Wright]

Completely agree; early to mid 80s.

But . . . a couple of them look like GG rather than in Derbyshire.

For years Buster had a motorbike. If I remember rightly it was a 550 cc model, painted black. I was always jealous of it! Out of interest, does anyone have a picture of him in the bike?

I don't have any photographs of him on his bikes but there's bound to be some knocking about. He had a silver Honda 250 and then got a new red and black Honda CX500. I do remember the registration number, PNC 8W. (1980) He used to pick me up on it every Friday to take me out to Castleton until I got my own bike. Didn't he go on your 1981 Sardina (Sardinia) expedition on it?

Brian Hague had the 1000cc Goldwing.

Mark

 

[bograt]

I stand corrected, it was a CX 500 

 

[Pitlamp]

Completely agree; early to mid 80s.

But . . . a couple of them look like GG rather than in Derbyshire.

For years Buster had a motorbike. If I remember rightly it was a 550 cc model, painted black. I was always jealous of it! Out of interest, does anyone have a picture of him in the bike?

I don't have any photographs of him on his bikes but there's bound to be some knocking about. He had a silver Honda 250 and then got a new red and black Honda CX500. I do remember the registration number, PNC 8W. (1980) He used to pick me up on it every Friday to take me out to Castleton until I got my own bike. Didn't he go on your 1981 Sardina (Sardinia) expedition on it?

Brian Hague had the 1000cc Goldwing.

Mark

Yes - you're right! We took their gear in the van (which was a bit of an epic journey) and they came out on the bikes. CX500 - now I remember. (Was it Mick Knott who had the 550 Bograt?). That was the year I learned that the Sardinian word for "scrapyard" was apparently "galena". We spent some time rooting round scrapyards, in searing heat, particularly as the compressor let us down badly.

 

[bograt]

Sorry, Pitlamp, can't remember what breed bike Mick had, I recall Mark & Kieth having CZ's and a lass with a Honda 50 (her brakes squeeked so she oiled the pads !!), I had MZ's, then a Suzuki 500, then the "Pigrat's".

 

[Mark Wright]

Pigrat?

We used to call it your 'Pig-Up'. There weren't many in the TSG who had vehicles with more than 3 wheels in those days.

'Little Bear', who lived in the next door flat to Tim Nixon in Sheffield, had a 4 cylinder Honda CB550. Didn't he go out to Sardinia as well?

Mark 

 

[bograt]

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[Pitlamp]

Yes - Little Bear went out in the van, as I remember.

For anyone wondering, he was called that because he looked like Oliver Statham but not as tall.

That was a "well organised" trip. We had vast quantities high quality expedition letter- headed notepaper, all very professional-looking and proudly bearing the title "British Cave Diving Expedition to Sardina". What with that, a clapped out van and a doomed compressor, what could possibly have gone right?