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The Topics Page ------------------------------------------------------- Anyone who actually wants to go caving should contact
Adam Cooper Duncan Jones adam@deepdownunder.co.uk Black Rose Caving Club http://www.deepdownunder.co.uk/ http://www.brcc.org.uk -------------------------------------------------------
Duncan (BRCC) on Long Gour Cave Canyon Traverse, in a gour pool and the tiny entrance in fog.
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My granddaughter had a great time staying at my farm in Varbyane.
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Ged's farmhouse in Bulgaria is finished
You are welcome to join us next summer There is 3/4 of an acre of orchard for tents. Motor bike collection in Varna City Park -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------- The Money Dragon Tree
Here's an interesting little known creature at large in Ingleton.
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What other dragons are lurking in the undergrowth, I wonder? -------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------- 20th October 2009 The Black Rose "young'uns" are back digging in Lower Arch Cave on Storrs Common.
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The Funeral of Isabel Lewis was held on Monday 27th July 2009 at Saint Mary's Church, Ingleton.
The church was full to overflowing in fond memory of this charming lady. The wake at Juno was standing room only.
When we close our eyes, we can see her clearly, The memory of her smile, the twinkle in her eye. Makes us want to say, how very much we miss her, So let her stay a while, these memories can not die. by Ged Dodd from his ICU 2 Album 2007, Class Music Studios.
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Memorial Concert for Connie Creighton Saturday, 28th March '09 2.30 pm at Southport Arts Centre
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28th Feb - Maureen scattering Tommy's ashes above Scar End.
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HAVE YOU ANY PICTURES OF THE FEBRUARY SNOW ? PLEASE SEND IN 1) Ged builds granddaughter a snow house 07-02-09 2, 3, 4, 5) Ingleborough and Ribblehead Station by Big Jack 06-03-09 6) Proper snow back in 1962 at Scar End Hostel
I have been reliably informed that Brian Lewis has been seen whistling up a sheep on his front lawn today .... hmmmm ?
New site about Ged's exploits in Caves of Hercules in Morocco 1989 -------------------------------------------------------
New Web site on Egypt for you armchair adventurers here.
14-01-09 Ged & Sandra back from their Egyptian Trip - see new web site here. ------------------------------------------------------- 28-10-08 Daily Mail reports gigantic crystal finds in a cave 1000ft below Mexican Desert. Click on thumbnails -This is not a hoax. -------------------------------------------------------
23-10-08 Duncan of the Black Rose Caving Club has been busy uploading a catalogue with thousands of cave photos on http://flickr.com/photos/brcc/ with a few of our oldies on Storrs Common
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BULGARIA UPDATE 20-09-08 by Ged
Photos by Ged - Courtesy of Peace Havens Limited - Bulgaria
There is a little wayside cafe at Madara that reminded me of Bernie's Cafe, and we got the best cup of old-fashioned milk coffee in a long time, in a huge mug. Meanwhile, enjoy, I did ...
Photos by Ged - Courtesy of Peace Havens Limited - Bulgaria -------------------------------------------------------
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REQUEST FOR INFO 14-03-08
Cathy - All I can suggest is to contact the Cave Rescue Organisation - Ged -------------------------------------------------------
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 01-02-08
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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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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We go Sinbad's at Golden Sands, every night, for the variety show with Bulgaria's most celebrated belly dancers, Tifani, 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 The exploits of Steve Manly in MI5. Tel 01202 514 722 - johnseaton@supanet.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. click to view photo gallery ------------------------------------------------------------------- Email from Dave Newsholme on 12-10-06
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
======================= 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. ---------- ==================== Anyone remember this oldie? email 28-03-05 from TEnright3@aol.com
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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. --------------------- William E.G. (Eddie) Hunt of Ingleton, passed away suddenly at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary on
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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 Kirbitcon 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
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