February 1994.

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Newsletter

THE 1994 A.G.

No.37

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-Brian Edmonds. Tel 1
..Mark Lavatt. Tel t
«John Shenton. Tel 2
-Darren Conde. Tel 3
+.Sharon Brandwood. Tel 1
«Brian Edmonds. Tel 1
:Tracy Conde. Tel $

Ralph Johnson. Tel

Mark Lavatt. Tel

Kev Mount ford. Tel

Paul Holdcroft ? Tel

SUBSCRIPTION :- No change.
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY:
Sunday 13th February + Simpsons Pot Tor stwk -
Saturday 19th February * Nettle Pot. -
NGR 126819 Grade III-v

Sunday 27th February
Sunday 6th March
Saturday 12th March
Sunday 20th March

sunday 27th March *

& bo.

Bullpot of the Witches
NGR SD 662813 Grade III

Peak Cavern. (maxis rersos) — bp
NGR 149825 Grade I-III (part show cave)

Streaks Pot.

NGR 212760 Grade IV

Irbey Fell Cavern.
NGR SO 673773 Grade III

Alum Pot/Lower Long Churn.
NRG SO 775756 Grade III

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LUMB_HOLE “ THE STORY SO FAR
by Neil Conde.

Lumb Hole (also known as Cressbrookdale Resurgence) is a
resurgence cave at the bottom of a wooden gorge at Cressbrook
in Derbyshire. Map Ref: 173733

It was about three years ago when we were still keen and
not very bright, ( nothing changes ) that Liam Kealey grabbed
his chance and asked us to help out on his new dig.(us being
the Conde Brother's and Tony [never on time] Renyolds ) It was
a thirty foot flatout craw] ending at some rocks, which blocked
the way, at least it was clean not like his other dig.

At this time Liam decided to pack his bags and move to
foreign parts (South Wales) leaving us to it. So with tooth
pick and sweat we scratched away. Three trips later and a lot
of hard work, only four foot of passage had been gained. So we
decided to go for the master plan, and got Darren to scout ou
for new recruits. After a lot of bullshit and saying the dig
was about to 90, we managed to talk Ross (dig it out) Evans
into coming along. (who needs a JCB when you've got Ross)

Any way Ross came along and had a good lock, said it
looked promising, so he had a word with Paul (blast it to bits)
Holdcroft, and a trip was arrange. Holes were drilled, bang in
place, dets set off.

We went back a week later to see the damage. Ross, Coddy
and myself crawled to the dig face and started moving rocks
away, while Darren and Tony started clearing the entrance out
We had been at it for about forty five minutes, when we heard a
loud rumbling sound, stone silence and then Darren shouted back
that a rock had fallen and blocked the entrance.I thought, oh
shit cave rescue! we’re in for a long wait.(Ed, if you remember
correctly Neil nobody knew of our where abouts at the time, so
we where in for a very long wait.) In the mean time Darren and
Tony managed to crawl over the boulder which was blocking the
entrance and shouted back, i DON'T PANIC
DON'T PANIC! Mr MANNERING you are still able to crawl out”
so we called it a day and returned to the entrance to way up
what had happened. Apparently they had removed a small rock
which was holding. a™large ‘boulder in place, which everybody
else saw and had the sence not to touch and so resulting in the
collapse.

Months went by between trips and we dug a bit further
then we got Ralph (just hold this) Johnson to bang it for us
dug it a bit further, then teft it a few months while we did
other things. During this time we had a bit of bad luck as Paul
and Ralphs bang licences ran out. Because of new regulations in
the law, they were refused new licences, so we were back to
square one tooth picks and sweat.

At the moment the cave is around sixty foot ong and flat
out all the way with the odd bend, its tight and awkward in
places and you can only turn around at the end with difficulty
the cave can be seen to go on but its getting tighter and needs
banging desperately to carry on.

2
FIRST PART OF THE CRAWL
ENTERING THE DIG.

PASSAGE VERY MUCH THE
SAME ALL THE WAY.

TO
No THE

PLASTIC TANK
ON THE LEFT

FOR SPOIL.

The last time we went was in May and since then Nigel and
Lionel have received bang licences for a new explosive, and
have offered to bang it for us, But at one of the club meetings
we found out that we were number one on the English Nature Hit
list for digging the cave without permission. So I rang one of
the wardens at Manor Barn to plead and beg for forgiveness and
found out that he didn’t mind us digging the cave. The problem
is, there is a rare moss growing near the entrance, and I got
the impression he wanted to come to some arrangement about the
route we took to the cave, so as not to damage the moss, so I
set up a meeting with him for the 5th December
I. rang Coddy and Darren to tell them the date, but I think they
must of been running scared, because aweek later Coddy went out
and got himself a job (Wally) and Darren decided to blow
himself up (Bigger Wally), so it was down to Tony and I.

We had only been waiting in the car for a couple of minutes
when the Warden arrived. We shook hands and made our
acquaintances. We climbed over the dry stone wall, where at
this point the warden informed us that the land is owned by a
Duke and and asked if we had permission. Tony and I faced each
other, grinned and replied “yes”. We made our way down to the
bottom of the gorge, and scrambled across the flowing river to
the large open entrance.

The Warden pointed to where the moss is growing, which is on
one side of the cave entrance in the water line, also on_ the
top and down the front of the rock platform in the mouth of the
cave. I asked him "does it grow anywhere else in Derbyshire

and he replied that it was only found in a few places in the
World, [just our luck]. Tony joked saying, "I'll take some of
that home and grow it in my fish pond to sell." The Warden
didn't look to happy and gave us a polite warning, that you
could get fined up to £1,000 per plant removed

There is a path running along the top of the entrance leading
to aclimb down to the mouth of the cave, then to stepping
stones in the river to another path, which is occasionally used
by walkers. This is where the Warden wants us to make the climb
down more obvious, so to keep walkers away from the platform

So we decided to offer him our help, which was wel

appreciated, to keep up good relations.

The plans the Warden suggested are as follow:

1. To dig- a*thres: foot deep-*trench in the stream in front of
the platform, to deters walkers away from the moss.

2. To move stepping stones further away from the edge of the
cave.

To make the climb up and down more obvious by cutting
teps into the rock.

To make some sort of a barrier on top of the platform to
prevent people from getting to close.

IF YOU ARE AN ANOREXIC MASOCHIST WITH NO BRAINS, YOU ARE JUST
THE PERSON THE CLUB IS LOOKING FOR TO JOIN THE DIG

4
CLIMB DOWN IN
CORNER AND ON
THE SLOPE.

MOSS GROWING
ON PLATFORM
AND DOWN THE
FRONT UNDER
THE WATER LINE

STEPPING STONES
IN FRONT OF
WATER.

ae

SURGESTED 3ft DEEP TRENCH TO BE DUG IN FRONT OF PLATFORM.

PICTURE LOOKING FROM THE ENTRANCE.

STEPPING
STONES TO
THE LEFT
OF THE
PICTUR

SURGESTED
NEW LINE
FOR STEPPING
STONES.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

The young man who has the courage to rLse his Lige cLimbing a
mountain, on expkonxing some dangerous terrain, or crossing an
ocean, on going down a pothote, wilt never tuan out to be mean-
Spinited, never become an outsider o2 a social misgit. He has
proved himsel$ in meeting the challenge of that kind of adventure
which offers no materia£ rewards, and he wilk prove himselé again
in the adventure where there are many newards to be won, the
adventuxe we call Life

Taken $x0m a book written by Jacques Attout, on the PSM.

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DROP TESTING OF PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT.

"Bodmen Drains"

During a trip to Jingling Pot a certain member of the club
inadvertently decided to “drop test" "ones" tackle sack, containing
two BDH bottles and an ammo box full of camera bits.

Upon inspection of the sack and contents at the bottom of the 43m
shaft, the tackle sack was found to be in good condition, and the
ammo box appeared to be O.K. but both the BDH bottles were split
open. Inside, one of the flash guns was obviously all right, its
fully charged LED was on, and it fired correctly. The other one
however was in bits. The camera itself looked alright, but its
built in flash no longer seemed to work. If "one", who conducted
this valuable test has had the film developed, maybe "one", could
let us know the results, can a 35mm camera survive a 43m fall onto
rocks. Flash guns it seems, only have a 50:50 survival chance in
this situation.

Incidently, the sticky goo all over the sack and its contents was
not a dead sheep as initially thought, but condensed milk, whose
container did not pass the drop test.

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COMMENT OF THE MONTH.

I have had another comment passed onto me too share with all you
members, I think it is only fair not to name the person involved
but the worrying thing is, that its a lady

On a windy day in Wales this person is reported to have said " The
last time I was on Gt Gable I got blown off, It was a real hands
and knees job !! ".

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