Newsletters

The club publishes a newsletter about four times a year, or however often club members can be persuaded by the editor to write enough content. Past newsletters can be downloaded from the links below. If there is no link to follow, then the newsletter has not been uploaded to the site yet. We are aiming to make every newsletter available all the way back to the first, but we need to finish the index and scan in the paper versions from the previous century, so this will take some time. Please be patient.

This page contains Newsletters from issue 121 on.

Links to other Newsletters:

December 2020 Newsletter 125. The Vaccination Issue!

• Club Meets from September to Christmas 2020
• DCRO
• James Hall Over Engine Mine trip report
• 5th and 6th December 2020. Knotlow, Jug Holes, Bull Pot of the Witches and Oxlow Cavern trips.
• 13th December 2020. Snelsow Swallet and Convenience Cave trip reports.
• Peper Inn Sink. A possible dig?
• Devonshire Cavern and Clatterway Levels. Rigging Guide visit.
• 19th December 2020. Masson Mine end of year trip.

Autumn 2020 Newsletter 124

• Editorial
• Club Meets Since March 2020
• Derbyshire Cave Rescue Organisation
• 7^th June 2020 – Knotlow and Surrounding Mines, Monyash, Derbyshire. Nicola Welling
• A Plea for Help from Alan Brentnall
• Kings Mine, Matlock, Derbyshire – Tuesday, 21 st July 2020. Gaz McShee
• 24^th October 2020 – Hagg Gill Pot, Langstrothdale, Yorkshire. Steve Pearson-Adams and Adrian Pedley
• 28^th October 2020 - Clearing the P8 car park. Steve Pearson-Adams
• Derbyshire Cave Rescue Organisation Fund Raising Calendar. Jenny Drake
• Old Photographs from Mark Lovatt
• Happy Christmas!

June 2020 Newsletter 123

• Editorial
• Sandstone Caves of Bickerton. Steve Knox
• Ganister Mine on Congleton Edge. Gaz McShee, Nigel Cooper.
• A Visit to a Very Local Mine 12^th June 1974. Ralph Johnson. There is more information about whetstone mines in this area in Mining History Bulletin 3-3 Whetsone Mining at Gillow Heath, near Biddulph, Staffordshire, published in 1967.

March 2020 Newsletter 122

• Club Meets during December 2019, February & March 2020.
• Day Shaft to Youds' level. 22/12/19. Nigel Cooper.
• Christmas Social. Walk in the Manifold Valley.
• Flower Pot to Merlin's Mine. 5/12/20. Rob Nevitt.
• Solo Caving. A Cautionary Tale. Alan Brentnall.
• DCRO Training. 6/1/20.
• Minera Mine. North Wales. Grand Turk to White Vein Traverse. 18/1/20.
• Peak Cavern. Victoria Aven. 2/2/20. Jenny Drake.
• Giant's Hole. 15/2/20. Steve Peason-Adams.
• Rowter Hole New Extensions and P8. 29/2/20. Jenny Drake.
• Crewe Climbing & Potholing Club - a little history. Steve Knox
• Don't Forget:
• Keep in Touch
• Coming Soon to a Saturday, or Sunday near you - nothing for a while!

December 2019 Newsletter 121

• Club Meets etc during September, October, November and December.
• King Pot, Yorkshire. 28th September. Jenny Drake.
• DCRO Training 1st October.
• DCRO Training. Knotlow Mine. 24th July.
• Giant's Hole and Carleswark Cavern 13th October. Gaz McShee, Sonia MacKenzie and Ruth Rabinowitz.
• Cwmorthin Slate Mine 26th October. Photos by Des Kelly.
• DCRO Training 4th November. Casualty care scenarios.
• Snelslow Swallet 7th to 9th November. DCA project. Alan Brentnall.
• Poacher's Cave and Water Icicle Close Cave.
• DCRO Training Alderley Edge Copper Mines. 24th November.
• Waterways Swallet car park clean up. 30th November. Alan Brentnall.
• Axe Hole 30th November. Gaz McShee.
• Coming Soon!

Convenience Cave. Photo © Gaz McShee 2020.