MORE PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN BY RON BLISS - MAINLY IN THE 1950'S & 60's
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The dig in Smokey Hole with Wilf Taylor Harry Bewes and Jim Eyre. We lit a fire made with bracken & heather plus a boiler suit, to see where the draught was going. After sucking in madly for a while the air currents reversed, See result below! circa 1950

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The main passage of Oxford Pot used to be very well decorated. This was taken only a few yards downstream of Poetic Justice, with Jim Eyre & Bill Leyland in the photo.

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Mad rush to get out of Smokey Hole. Bill Leyland was the last, well it was his boiler suit!

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Oxford Pot, the Platypus bill rock ( now broken off), Platypus Junction Jim Eyre on photo. Circa 1951

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Oxford Pot entrance after we spent all night reopening the hole after a "mysterious" collapse midweek, Eric Holland ,top, says he did most of the work as we kept going to sleep. Bill Leyland, lower, asleep! It had collapsed again the next week so that prompted us to open Slaughterhouse Sink and eventually County.

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A picture from our first dinner, in 1952. We did not have dinners before this, though we now number them from the club's founding. Back row from the left, Jim Eyre's Dad, Ron Bliss with big pencil and bottle of lotion for writers cramp {he had just been made secretary} Ray Barker with hemet with sprung pan lid for pitch diving, and extra large copy of Pennine Underground for getting lost with George Band, the Everest mountaineer, in GG. Tom Sykes with 100w light bulb for most lamp failures. John Barbour dunces cap, getting lost before getting to the pot. Front row Pauline Thompson, with big medal. Jim Eyre Learner plate Taking his test after demolishing 20ft of wall in Kingsdale on Bill Leyland's Norton combination. Mick Bateson allso with a large medal.


RRCPC 2003