Victoria and Albert museum caving collections

[mikem]

Have some fine photos taken by Harold Wadsworth Haywood of Brow Gill, Lost Johns and Dry Lathe, between 1928 and 1934:

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[mikem]

If you add Haywood to the search, there is also alum, goyden, bull pot of the witches, gingling, and calf holes (19 pics altogether - apparently he was a member of Leeds Caving Club). I have already told them that the untitled cave is alum pot (note that some images appear multiple times).

Also:

Engraving from Whitaker's 'History of Richmondshire' | Middiman | Turner, Joseph Mallord William | V&A Explore The Collections

Engraving by S. Middiman entitled 'Weathercote Cave', after a drawing by J. M. W. Turner to illustrate Thomas Dunham Whitaker's book 'An history of Richmondshire, in the North riding of the county of York : together with those parts of the Everwicschire of Domesday which form the wapentakes of...

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Plus (there is another of clamshell cave on Staffa):

Stereoscopic photograph of Fingal's Cave on Staffa | V&A Explore The Collections

Stereoscopic albumen print of Fingal's Cave on Staffa in the Inner Hebrides, photographed by Lennie of Edinburgh. Scotland, ca. 1859.

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& (adding frith to search includes other sea caves and Peak District):

Mousehole Cave | Francis Frith | V&A Explore The Collections

19thC, Frith F. Mousehole Cave 2013

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A much more recent image from Moravia:

Byčí Skála Cave | Watkins, Peter | Zelenkova, Tereza | V&A Explore The Collections

Photograph by Tereza Zelenkova, ' Byčí Skála Cave', 2011. Gelatin Silver Print, 75 x 100cm, edition of 4.

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[langcliffe]

The Harold Wadsworth Haywood photograph collection is held by the British Geological Survey, and is available online. It is a remarkable collection.