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Autumn 1985 Newsletter PDF Scan

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10^th newsletter. (15 page)

• Big bang in Oxlow
• Early steps down Carlswark, humorous
• D.C.R.O. call out to two dogs at King Sterndale
• Picos de Europa
• Cabeza Muxa (Picos)
• Poem
• Digging in Lamb Leer (joke)
• 'Caving in the Far East', lecture report
• D.C.A. meeting (April '85)
• Lin's Song (humorous)
• Hammer Pot trip
• Back Bearings
• Analwogupar' S.R.T. rig (ropewalking)
• N. Staffs. gravel mines
• Lost
• Address changes
• New chest harnesses
• Sale

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9^th newsletter. (9 pages)

• Comment
• Surface navigation
• Early caving: Eldon Hole on ROPE ladder!
• Subscriptions
• Repairing and handling Nife batteries
• Joining two ropes at a bolt, with diagrams
• Otter Hole trip
• Lost/Found/etc.
• 'Extreme Exploration: Cave Diving'
• Club 'do'
• Rescue practice: March '85
• Comment
• Meets
• Colour coding of rope ends
• News

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8^th newsletter. (15 pages)

• Club 'do'
• 9th. International Speleo Congress: Spain '86
• Batteries (8 pages)
• D.C.A. meeting
• News
• Comment: Lost in Pippikin
• Recent S.R.T. problems
• Ron Beckett's barn
• Eldon Hole Access + map

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7^th newsletter. (21 pages)

• Editorial
• G.G. Christmas poem
• Club 'do'
• Poem
• Hangers comment
• KISA (shock absorbing device)
• Premier carbide lamps
• Cascade Passage' dig, the full story (1972-1984)
• News
• Phil's driving (joke)
• Biddulph Road Race
• Alkali burns
• Photo competition rules
• Comment (joke) + cartoons
• B.C.R.A. Conference 1984
• News
• Sales
• Introduction to Agen Allwedd
• Simple survey of Agen Allwedd. (two sheets)

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6^th newsletter. (9 pages)

• Editorial
• Karabiner warning
• Equipment care
• New members (Redacted)
• 'Cascade Passage' dig in Giant's Hole
• Use and misuse of hangers
• Comment/news
• Rope care
• Missing gear
• Photo competition format
• Comment (joke)
• Club barbeque '84
• Biddulph Sports Day
• Meets
• Wanted/sale

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5^th newsletter. (10 pages)

• Club 'do'
• Photo competition
• Winnat's Head Cave
• Caving knots for S.R.T. rigging
• Letter (joke)
• Editorial
• Ralph's dig in Giant's Hole (1957-1984) above Pillar Crawl
• Equipment news (joke)
• S.M.D.C. Sports week
• Members on T.V.
• Belays for S.R.T.
• Club 'library' list (B.C.R.A. Transactions, Bulletins, Cave Science and Caves & Caving)
• Changes to membership (Redacted)
• Meets
• Sale
• Caving in Spain in '85?
• Knot diagrams

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4^th newsletter. (9 pages)

• Editorial including A.G.M. news and meets round-up
• Frankenstein's caver (joke illustration)
• First Aid in caves
• Raffle
• Problem page (joke)
• Maintenance of Lead-Acid cells
• Club weekend 'do'
• Cave Rescue and the Press
• Conservation
• News
• Sale/wants
• Meets
• Membership list (Redacted)

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3^rd newsletter. (10 pages)

• Editorial including news
• Letter from Alan Walker
• A day in the 'life of a carbide lamp (joke)
• Photo competition '83
• Newspaper item (November 1959 !)
• Safe belaying with the Italian Hitch, includes diagrams
• Communications for expeditions (joke)
• Sale/wanted/lost
• Meets
• Changes to membership (Redacted)

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2^nd newsletter. (10 pages)

• Editorial
• News
• Christmas 'do'
• N.C.A. Conference 1983
• Courses at Loosehill Hall 83/84
• D.C.R.O. meeting
• Reminder about A.G.M. in Jan.
• Club instructor system (full review)
• Recent trips
• Meets
• Expedition' to Axe Hole (joke)
• Battery tip
• Equipment notes
• Sales/wants (joke)
• Membership changes (Redacted)

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1^st newsletter. (7 pages)

• Editorial
• Alan Walker's retirement
• Otter Hole
• Pippikin rescue
• Newspaper cutting (July 1974)
• New lighting system (joke)
• Pippikin trip (July 1973)
• Changes to membership list (Redacted)
• photo

Gaz McShee in Winnats Head Cave.