On 12th March 2005 we passed the "Final Choke" at the end of Blore Street.
This drops into an aven, with a step up to a modest chamber. From the back of this chamber, a phreatic tube leads off for 8m, emerging in the side of a huge chamber ("Toad Haul"), approx 25m high and 9m in diameter.
A hastily rigged and improvised lifeline allowed a pitch to be descended to reach the chamber floor, (a steep boulder slope disapearing under a wall).
The obvious way on was followed down a few meters, to a point where it is blocked by large rocks and silt, which requires further digging.
Still no sign of the stream though....
Andy Foster