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Oh Sir Jasper do not touch me.
Will you still love me tomorrow
Richie says I sang this going down Alum Pot in 1959.
Dennis
Who called this bloody meeting and who's that with cold hands
Big Jack Procter
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Site Admin jed.dodd@blueyonder.co.uk ------------------------------------------------------- Anyone who actually wants to go caving should contact
Adam Cooper http://www.deepdownunder.co.uk/ ------------------------------------------------------- NEWS FLASH 7'sh on Saturday the 07-08-08
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WE LOVE BULGARIA 22-07-08 Property "ty-goons" Ged and John's July 2008 update for Bulgaria. John has been virtually living on the site and Ged will be there on the 28th. click on thumbnail Villas ready for occupation by the end of August 2008.
Peace Havens of Bulgaria - Prices fully furnished from £89,950 Click on Logo
Peace Havens
[ Peace Havens Ltd - Varna ]------------------------------------------------------- REQUEST FOR INFO 14-03-08
Cathy - All I can suggest is to contact the Cave Rescue Organisation - Ged -------------------------------------------------------
OK folks, I'm trying out a new format - comments appreciated. Absentees poorly - John Seaton and Connie, Tommy Bowers. Absentees because his wife knuckled him for last year - Jim.
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Please send me your photos in as large as possible format.
Frank Squirrel was rushed into hospital. He's out again now and would appreciate a call on 01524 417 735 to chew the fat and tell you the latest news.
Big Jack took these photos 22-02-08 - click on a thumbnail ------------------------------------------------------- New photos from Big Jack 06-02-08
That photo of Pete looks too clean - white shirt, clean jeans, clean shoes. Very odd. ------------------------------------------------------- WATCH THIS SPACE BIG JACK IS WORKING ON OTHER SMALLER GET-TOGETHERS
AND HE WILL LET US KNOW WHEN HE HAS ORGANISED
THEM.
WE LOVE BULGARIA 11-02-08 Property "ty-goons" Ged and John's January 2008 update for Bulgaria. click on thumbnail
Our Pepi's (Penka Borisova) latest dance (number 14) is Traditional Bulgarian. See also the points awarded for the Oriental Dance to the 8 competitors. We will be out in Bulgaria again in a couple of weeks if anyone wants to come. Click here for a photo/video gallery of what we are up to in Bulgaria.
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New photos from Big Jack 01-02-08
Sleeping in the Snow 1958
Cave Rescue Practice 1959
Mike & Jennifer Myers, ( ? ) Pete Mately
1958
Big Jack - Breakfast at Bull Pot 1958
Mid Winter at Bull Pot of the
Witches 1958
Long Churn 1959 with Newspaper team
Big Jack 1959 was not a pretty sight.
King Tiger 1959 was our fire coal hauler?
Ingleborough, White Scar & Scar End 2007
Mary & Jack halfway up the Eigar Mountain
Jack & Mary on top of Yuungfraujoch, Swiss
Big Jack in 2008 Contest Mode
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REQUEST FOR INFO 09-01-08
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Post your card here - Have a Very Merry Christmas
Click here for a Merry Christmas ------------------------------------------------------- Who's doing what these days? GUARD EXTRAORDINAIRE Rumour is that our Big Jack has a big boy's job as a "responsible person" on the Worth Valley Rail and is still "hamming" it up on the airwaves.
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Johnnie Seaton's Quiet Weekend in Ingleton
Well, Johnnie tells me he had this quiet weekend planned for Connie and himself up in Ingleton when word got around and all of a sudden it was to be a party on Saturday night, where anyone who could would turn up. Excluding John K and myself who were out of the country on 29-09-07. However, on the Friday Connie took poorly and Johnnie whisked her off back home to the doctors in Bournemouth. She is OK. More later. Much frantic phoning ensued by Big Jack to cancel the party but I understand stragglers Frank Squirrel, Mike and Mary Myers, Jimmy Borsey and Brian Lewis ended up having a bit of a get together.
Property "ty-goons" Ged and John's August 2007 update for Bulgaria.
Bulgaria's most celebrated belly dancers, Gina, Julia, Pepe and Mimi.
On to Mimi's birthday party where everybody, young & old, join in the dancing. We get invited because Ged and Mimi are old friends ? and we thought our man in MI5 was Johnnie Seaton. Click here to go to Mimi's Birthday Party
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Blast from the Past
Mary Brown, John Kirbitson, Sandra Dodd August 1972
-------------------------------- E-mail from Alan Edmonds requesting info CAN ANYONE HELP ??? alansinfo@sky.com
07-05-07
Hi Ged
Just thought I would let you know what a
great night I had at
the Dinner. It was great to meet up with
all the old guys again
after all those years,
And also seeing you again after such a
long time. I hope to
make it next year, There was not enough
time to get around
everyone last time,
Can I ask a question are you still in
touch with Colin Enright
I read his letter that you put on the site
and have tried to get
in touch with him to no avail.
Hope you find time to get back to me
Best Regards
Alan J Edmonds ( ex Newton
near
Barrow. Now in Kendal )
Bye
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SCORCHER UPDATE john.winterburn@hotmail.co.uk - Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:53:39 +0100
To paraphrase a very old statement escaped the clutches of the NHS. It would seem that a heart attack
may not have been the cause of my incarceration.
To Ged, May the gods smile upon your venture into the Balkans. --------------------------------------------------------------------
WHITE SCAR CAVES In the afternoon prior to the Reunion Dinner on the 24th March 2007 Brian Lewis, an official tour guide, organised a trip down White Scar.
Brian Lewis, Jonnie Seaton, Jack Sletcher, Mike Myers .Also with the party were: Mary Myers, Barbara (Cumpsty), Jonnie Seaton's two sons, Andrew and Stuart, plus two grandchildren, Helen and Adam and their mother Karen. Thanks to Brian and White Scar owners for a free trip. ------------------------------------------------------
BLACK ROSE REUNION DINNER 200 7Wheatsheaf, Ingleton on the 24th March 2007 A great time was had by all thanks to Organiser Brian Lewis - Tel 01524 241 541 bwlewis@tiscali.co.uk
Pete Cumpsty was unable to attend because they needed him urgently up in Scotland at the Dunrae Nuclear Facility - hmmm !!!
PLEASE SEND ME MORE PHOTOS OF DINNER
Ged arrived as a Father Christmas look-a-like but it's back to just moustache again now.
Click on a photo to enlarge the thumbnail.
photos by Ged Dodd excepting the last one by a kind anonymous onlooker.
photos by Big Jack Procter
photos from Johnnie Seaton
PLEASE SEND ME MORE PHOTOS
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bulgarian Cave Monastery ( Ged Dodd) 18th Feb 2007 The nearest I got to caving this year was visiting the Cave Church of Aladzha Monastery near Varna on the Black Sea Coast of Bulgaria.
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To anyone who didn't get a Christmas card we apologise. It is because Sandra and I have been living it up at the Sonesta Saint George Hotel in Luxor, Upper Egypt.
Sunset from our balcony
Did I mention the owner is a friend of ours?
On board his latest 5* cruise ship.
Up before dawn for a balloon trip over the Nile and the Colossi of Memnon.
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Email from Dave Newsholme on 12-10-06
------------------- BLACK ROSE REUNION DINNER 2006 Wheatsheaf, Ingleton on the 25th March 2006 A great time was had by all thanks to Organiser Brian Lewis - Tel 01524 241 541
PLEASE SEND ME MORE PHOTOS
Photos courtesy of Connie Creighton CLICK ON THUMB NAILS TO ENLARGE
Photos courtesy of Big Jack Procter CLICK ON THUMB NAILS TO ENLARGE
Action packed political thriller of the exploits of Steve Manly in MI5. Tel 01202 514 722 - johnseaton@supanet.com Or write to John Seaton, 139 Kinson Road, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH10 4DG
Hi folks, I've been off-line for a long time ( months) and am just catching up, Connie is fairy godmother in Cinderella, yet again!. Hope you are all well and hope to see you at the Wheatsheaf 25th March? Cheers Johnnie Seaton. 13-12-2005.
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY click on pic for a Merry Christmas message
--------------------------- New Photos 07-05-05 from Dave Shaw (One-armed Dave) 80 Hawes Road, Little Horton, Bradford BD5 9AU Dave was one of the Marton Arms Group
Jack Sletcher in Patterdale
Jack Shore at the Institute Dance
Goliath above Hobson's Choice before it was broken.
Jack S and Dave on Helvellyn
Jack S on Helvellyn
Big Kim Alderton in centre
Dave (before accident) at the Marton Arms
Vicky/Dave (before accident) at the Marton Arms
Marton Group on day trip to Morecambe
Keep them coming
======================= Cairn Cavern (New Discovery 21st April 2005) So, Pete Cumpsty collars Ged at the Dinner and tells him about this rock shelter he had stumbled on whilst out walking, near the Roman Road, and plans were made to have another look, complete with Ged's metal detector, on the first available sunny day, it being out in the wilds. It had rained the previous day, leaving an inch of water over much of the floor inside the shelter, about 10 feet square and 3 feet high, so we had a dabble outside and found a horseshoe, well, more a small pony shoe, and an Olde tent peg, and a ring pull off a sardine can. Wow. Pete had brought a powerful lamp which revealed an inner dry cavern, at least as large as the outer, which we didn't enter, because it meant getting muddy, and we weren't kitted up for caving. We will return.
Pete Cumpsty and Adam Cooper had a good day at the shelter. No obvious finds apart from a old fence post left inside the cave at the back, but they did find 3 or 4 round house remains, about 1/2 a mile away. ---------- BLACK ROSE REUNION DINNER 2005 Wheatsheaf, Ingleton on the 16th April 2005
Congratulations to Organiser Brian Lewis for an excellent venue - Tel 01524 241 541
A toast to Absent Friends (photos Ged Dodd)
More photos needed please.
==================== Anyone remember this oldie? email 28-03-05 from TEnright3@aol.com
Hi. Have
just been looking at a web site of the Black Rose Caving Club Oldies !
Hi Colin, please send photo of Meesh by snail mail
or email, and get yourself to the reunion at the Wheatsheaf. Always room for
another oldie. Regards Ged.
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Meanwhile back at the ranch an email from Richie Hi
Ged, unfortunately couldn't make the last reunion and not sure about
the next one either, retirement does put a dent in ones finances and
limits the things that one would like to do. Hope
you and yours are keeping ok, myself recovering from a shoulder
replacement which is improving day by day and faster than I was
expecting although it will be many moons before it regains it normal
strength if ever. However can't complain if it isn't painful.
Hopefully by next spring it should not prevent me from carrying on
my normal functions riding my motorcycle. I
visit the Black Rose site from time to time and every time it
brings back happy memories from times long ago.
Thought I would include a pic of me by my motorcycle, this was taken
North of Toronto in September. You will notice that my facial hair
is removed I thought I would start my retirement of with a clean
slate so to speak :) This was my first full year of retirement so
the bike sure got a work out. Next year I start my OA Pension
65...Jees its hard to believe.
Anyway talk later, Richie
Richie 2004 click to enlarge the photo
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Big Jack Procter
Thanks to Big
Jack for working miracles on our 3rd reunion dinner
by getting the Marton
Arms again. Next year's reunion will be organised by Brian and Pete. A
hard act to follow.... BLACK ROSE REUNION
DINNER 2004 Marton Arms on the 3rd
April 2004 I gave my apologies in advance
for not attending
because I was working although I arrived
later on to take these photos. Click
on a photo to enlarge it.
PLEASE SEND ME YOUR PICS ASAP
The following pics from Big Jack
PLEASE SEND ME YOUR PICS ASAP
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Sandra Dodd with Big Kim Alderton
at Loch Lomond 1960 - photo by Ged Dodd
ANYONE KNOW WHERE HE IS ?????? ---------------------
William E.G. (Eddie) Hunt of
Ingleton,
passed away suddenly at the
Royal Lancaster Infirmary on
Tuesday 12th August 03
aged 69 years.
Eddie Hunt - Profile
from the Black Rose Story by Ged Dodd
When I finally tracked Eddie down
after 40 years he maintained that he never was in the Black Rose as such,
but he had always knocked around with Jed, Jim, John and Just, or the FOUR
JAYS as he used to call them. That was Ged (Jed) Dodd, Jim Varey, John
Kirbitson and Frank (Just Courting) Squirrel.
As it happened, when we left the Scar End
Hostel it was
Big Eddie Hunt, the blaster at the
local quarry who immediately got us the key to this dry ex-quarry building up on Storrs
Common which we could use as a hostel, and although we were no longer in the old club
we still regarded ourselves as the true Black Rose and carried on
regardless.
When I say Big Eddie, I don't mean
tall, I mean wide. He was built like a Sumo Wrestler, the proverbial brick
outhouse. Whoa.
Eddie was just larger
than life. A true Yorkshire man, blunt spoken, generous to a fault, plus a
built-in habit of giving his friends an affectionate bear-hug that could
break ribs, a painful fact, to which his girl-friend would testify. He
broke two of her ribs in an affectionate embrace, but by the same token I can
not recall him ever doing anything out of anger, although he did have this
wicked sense of humour.
As Eddie tells it,
"When I were at t'Quarry we had five pound sticks (dynamite) and you had to
drop them down the hole, you see, and if the hole were too tiny the middle
went and you were left with t'carton in your hand. So I thought, well,
I'll stuff that full of paper, I'll go up to t'hut, and I'll get that lot
up, somehow or other, so, put a dud fuse in and lit it, slung it in and
there were all sorts coming out of t'hut then ... ha ha ha."
Almost as funny as when he
would stand on top of the quarry throwing live sticks of dynamite at me
saying, "Catch 'em, you gret softy, they can't go off, there's no
detonator in 'em ... ha ha ha". Oh happy days, they don't make
fear like that anymore.
Eddie, being a local from
Ingleton, was the door-man who stamped your hand with an indelible blue
pass-out on the Saturday Night Dance at the Institute.
He remembers this was
done to stop the local girls from smuggling us potholers into the dance
via the lady's toilets round the back of the Institute. Money was in short
supply those days. A pint or the dance? No contest - make mine a pint. We
lads had this curious priority code of Caving > Drinking > Girls ... but
the girls had another code of Boys > Boys > Boys.
He says, "That
was a horrible job on t'door, 'cos they all come up
Kay-lied, Pee-eyed an' all sorts. (The
dance was on the first floor, up lots of steps.) I use
to stamp them anywhere they wanted stamping, an' I wasn't bothered,
lifting skirts up, stamp their boobs, one bloke took his willie out an' I
stamped that an' all.... ha ha ha."
Eddie was later featured in Sid Perou's film A Wet Sunday at
Sunset which promoted the Cave Rescue Organisation. He supported
the CRO whole-heartedly for many, many years with his ready jovial
attitude, and his ability to sober up rapidly on a Saturday night when
Dodger Brown came a' knocking on his door. Most rescuers were shouted out
on a Saturday night. One would think potholers could be more considerate
and wait until Sunday afternoon when the effects of Hartley's Ulverston
Best Bitter had worn off.
Eddie's strength was
legendary and if you got tired humping those heavy ladders then he would
more than likely take them off you, put them under his arm... and then
he'd grab you and put you under t'other one ... just because he could ....
ha ha ha.
Oh happy days, they
don't make them like him anymore.
Privileged to know you Eddie -
take care mate - Ged
----------------------------- ---- John
Sandham located by
Pete Cumpsty
Tel 01476 670 661
email sandham@aol.com
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A belated photo from the Dinner courtesy of
Dennis Moorhouse.
Duncan, PD, Jan, Ged and Adam
We are still doing a bit up on Great Knoutberry Scar
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Black Rose Pothole Club 2nd Reunion of 2003
29th March - Marton Arms - Ingleton
A good time was had by one and all thanks
to Big Jack for the arrangements. MORE PHOTOS
NEEDED PLEASE These are courtesy of Big
Jack Proctor
These are courtesy of
Richie
These are courtesy of
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