Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2
- 3 Volumes
- 4
- 5 Annual General Meetings
- 6
- 7 Belfry Matters
- 8
- 9 Caving
- 10
- 11 Cave Photography
- 12
- 13 Cave Surveying
- 14
- 15 Caving in Austria
- 16
- 17 Caving in Britain
- 18
- 19 Caving in Derbyshire
- 20
- 21 Caving in South West England
- 22
- 23 Caving in the Mendip Area
- 24
- 25 Caving in Scotland
- 26
- 27 Caving in Wales
- 28
- 29 Caving in Yorkshire
- 30
- 31 Caving in France
- 32
- 33 Caving in India
- 34
- 35 Caving in Ireland
- 36
- 37 Caving in Spain
- 38
- 39 Climbing
- 40
- 41 Climbing in Lake District
- 42
- 43 Climbing in North Wales
- 44
- 45 Geology and Archaeology
- 46
- 47 History
- 48
- 49 Humourous
- 50
- 51 List of Members
- 52
- 53 Mendip Rescue Organisation Matters
- 54
- 55 Mining
- 56
- 57 Miscellaneous
- 58
- 59 Obituaries
- 60
- 61 Poems
- 62
- 63 Review Of Books
- 64
- 65 Songs
Introduction
This index covers only the main articles that have been produced in the Belfry Bulletin. It does not cover any news snippets, regular features such as “On the Hill”, which was mainly news of people or progress in digs and caves.
The first sheet shows the main categories and on which page to find the main topics. The biggest topic is of course, caving, which has several sub-indexes, which are shown in italics. Climbing also has sub-indexes.
The list only shows the Belfry Bulletin Number, as to show the page would not bee very helpful, as there are three separate issues for each Bulletin. The first issue is the original, which had a various number of different sizes and fonts; the second issue is a reformatted issue, which is all on A4 size pages and uses a common font, which is Times New Roman at point 11; the third edition is the one on the web site, which has been taken from the second issue. The second issue is also available if anybody wishes a copy of them.
At the back of the index are a few statistics, relating mainly to issue two, but gives a very good indication as the size of each Bulletin.
The next page show how each issue relates to its volume and year of publication. A few discrepancies will be noted: –
- Issue 341 was never issued. It was produced and printed on one side of each sheet, but the stencils were then destroyed by the printing machine, when it broke down, and they were never retyped.
- Issues 263 to 269 were skipped when the editor found he couldnÂ’t count, so they do not exist.
- Issue 48 was never completed or issued, but a copy has been found, and what there is has been reproduced.
After the first year of the Bulletin, the magazine became a monthly issue, with a few hiccoughs. Where an issue was produced to cover two months, they were sometimes given two numbers, such as can be seen in volume 5 and volume 10.
Most of the early issues were only 4 to six pages long, only rather quarto of foolscap size of paper. In 1960, number 143 was produced on a foolscap paper, but printed sideways so that the number of pages could be doubled but still keep the same number of sheets of paper. This continued until 1968, when it reverted back to quarto. In 1975, the Belfry Bulletin was then produced on A5 size of paper, maintaining a fair number of pages. In 1977, it was decided to print the Belfry bulletin on A4 size paper, where it has remained today. In 1980, it was found to be difficult to maintain a monthly magazine, using A4 size paper, and from then onwards, the monthly issue became approximately two monthly, with a volume covering each year, until 2002, when even this numbering system went out of the window. Nowadays, issues only come as and when.
Volumes
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Volume |
Year |
Numbers |
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Volume 1 |
1947 |
1,2,3,4,5,6,7 |
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Volume 2 |
1948 |
8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18 |
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Volume 3 |
1949 |
19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30 |
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Volume 4 |
1950 |
31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42 |
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Volume 5 |
1951 |
43,44,45,46/47,48,49/50,51,52 |
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Volume 6 |
1952 |
53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64 |
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Volume 7 |
1953 |
65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76 |
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Volume 8 |
1954 |
77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87 |
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Volume 9 |
1955 |
88,89,90,91,92,93,94,95,96,97,98,99 |
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Volume 10 |
1956 |
100,101/102,103,104,105,106,107,108 |
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Volume 11 |
1957 |
109,110,111,112,113,114,115,116,117,118,119 |
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Volume 12 |
1958 |
120,121,122,123,124,125,126,127,128,129,130,131 |
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Volume 13 |
1959 |
132,133,134,135,136,137,138,139,140,141,142 |
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Volume 14 |
1960 |
143,144,145,146,147,148,149,150,151,152,153,154 |
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Volume 15 |
1961 |
155,156,157,158,159,160,161,162,163,164,165,166 |
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Volume 16 |
1962 |
167,168,169,170,171,172,173,174,175,176,177,178 |
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Volume 17 |
1963 |
179,180,181,182,183,184,185,186,187,188,189, 190 |
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Volume 18 |
1964 |
191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199,200,201,202 |
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Volume 19 |
1965 |
203,204,205,206,207,208,209,210,211,212,213,214 |
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Volume 20 |
1966 |
215,216,217,218,219,220,221,222,223,224,225,226 |
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Volume 21 |
1967 |
227,228,229,230,231,232,233,234,235,236,237 |
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Volume 22 |
1968 |
238,239,240,241,242,243,244,245,246,247,248,249 |
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Volume 23 |
1969 |
250,251,252,253,254,255,256,257,258,259,260,261 |
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Volume 24 |
1970 |
262,270,271,272,273,274,275,276,277,278,279,280 |
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Volume 25 |
1971 |
281,282,283,284,285,286,287,288,289,290 |
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Volume 26 |
1972 |
291,292,293,294,295,296,297,298,299,300,301,302 |
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Volume 27 |
1973 |
303,304,305,306,307,308,309,310,311,312,313,314 |
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Volume 28 |
1974 |
315,316,317,318,319,320,321,322,323,324,325,326 |
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Volume 29 |
1975 |
327,328,329,330,331,332,333,334,335,336,337 |
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Volume 30 |
1976 |
338,339,340,,342,343,344,345 |
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Volume 31 |
1977 |
346,347,348,349,350,351,352,353,354,355,356 |
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Volume 32 |
1978 |
357,358,359,360,361,362,363,364,365,366,367,368 |
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Volume 33 |
1979 |
369,370,371,372/373,374,375,376/377,377,378,379,380 |
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Volume 34 |
1980 |
381,382,383,384/385,386/387,388/389,390,391/392 |
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Volume 35 |
1981 |
393/394,395/396,397,398/399,400,401,402/403 |
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Volume 36 |
1982 |
404/405,406/407,408/409,410/411,412-415,416 |
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Volume 37 |
1983/84 |
417,418,419,420,421,422 |
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Volume 38 |
1984 |
423,424,425,426 |
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Volume 39 |
1985 |
427,428,429,430,431,432 |
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Volume 40 |
1986 |
433,434,435,436,437,438 |
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Volume 41 |
1987 |
439,440,441,442,443 |
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Volume 42 |
1988 |
444,445,446,447 |
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Volume 43 |
1989 |
448,449,450,451,452 |
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Volume 44 |
1990 |
453,454,455,456,457 |
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Volume 45 |
1991 |
458,459,460,461,462 |
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Volume 46 |
1992 |
463,464,465,466 |
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Volume 47 |
1993/94 |
467,468,469,470,471,472,473,474,475 |
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Volume 48 |
1995 |
476,477,478,479,480,481 |
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Volume 49 |
1996/97 |
482,483,484,485,486,487,488,489,490,491,492,493 |
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Volume 50 |
1998/99 |
494,495,496,497,498,499,500,501,502,503,504,505 |
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Volume 51 |
2000/01 |
506,507,508,509,510,511,512 |
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Volume 52 |
2002 |
513,514 |
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Volume 53 |
2003/04 |
515,516,517,518,519,520 |
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Volume 54 |
2005 |
521,522,523 |
Annual General Meetings
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194x |
195x |
196x |
197x |
198x |
199x |
200x |
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0 |
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152 |
287 |
400 |
457 |
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1 |
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176 |
298 |
none |
463 |
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2 |
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54 |
188 |
300; 308; 309 |
none |
468 |
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3 |
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none |
322 |
426 |
470 |
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4 |
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79 |
200 |
332 |
430 |
476 |
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5 |
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85 |
212 |
342 |
431 |
482 |
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6 |
1 |
100-101 |
226 |
344; 350 |
437 |
488 |
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7 |
8 |
110 |
235 |
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442 |
495 |
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8 |
18 |
129 |
none |
374*; 375*;375 |
451 |
none |
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9 |
32 |
141 |
176 |
386-387 |
none |
508 |
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* = This was for an EGM
Belfry Matters
Belfry Improvements 417
Belfry News 1; 2; 3; 13; 17; 23; 24
Building a Belfry 62; 63; 64; 65; 66; 145; 149; 150
Building for the Belfry 408-409
Belfry Rules 74
Exodus 14
Do we want a New Belfry? 223
Long Term Planning 225; 226; 227; 228; 229; 319; 321
Proposed Alterations 347; 383
Caving
A ChickenÂ’s Guide to Caving 481
Above Ground 6
After Glow/Luminescence 171; 172; 173
An Unusual Cave Rescue 363
Artic Norway 355
Are You on a Safe Lifeline 326
Camping Underground 77
Carslbad Caverns 284
Cave Access and Control 309
Cave Art 171
Cave Diving 186
Cave Flora 15
Cave Grading Severity 320
Cave Photography See page 9
Cave Surveying See page 9
Cavern of Ludchurch (Staffs) 166
Caving and Diving in Oman 470; 477; 480
Caving in Africa 22
Caving in Aruba 468
Caving in Australia 500; 507; 510;
Caving in Austria See page 9
Caving in Belgium 174; 231; 383
Caving in Britain See page 10
Caving in Central Kentucky 464
Caving in China 450; 468
Caving in Crete 292; 512
Caving in Cuba 464; 466
Caving in Eastern USA 448
Caving in France See page 18
Caving in Germany 22; 226; 500
Caving in Gibraltar 364; 380
Caving in Greece 230; 326; 360
Caving in Hungary 501
Caving in India See page 19
Caving in Ireland See page 19
Caving in Italy 354; 359; 369; 376-377; 383
Caving in Jamaica 448; 462; 478
Caving in Lebanon 190
Caving in Malaya 111; 118
Caving in Malta 302
Caving in Mexico 418; 433; 460; 483
Caving in Morocco 215
Caving in New Mexico 511
Caving in New Zealand 391-392434; 435; 450
Caving in Pakistan 497
Caving in Palestine 8
Caving in Salawesi 477; 478; 482
Caving in Saudi Arabia 434
Caving in Saurland 64; 488
Caving in South Africa 360; 390; 391-392; 393-394; 452
Caving in Spain See page 19
Caving in Sweden 307
Caving in Switzerland 210; 211; 217; 241; 290; 371
Caving in Tasmania 515
Caving in Thailand 443; 445; 500
Caving in the Falkland Islands 476
Caving in The Philippines 448; 449; 452; 455; 456; 479; 483; 490; 499
Caving in Vietman 464; 498; 515
Caving in Yugoslavia 282; 462
Caving in Zanzibar 521
Caving on Bonaire 466
Caving with Yogi and Spacemen (USA) 481
Communication/Radio 210; 247; 305; 393-394
Deneholes of HangmanÂ’s Wood 321; 323
Fish Pot (Cotswolds) 395-396
Forest of Dean 187
Geyser Stalagmites 178
Going Solo 427
Have you got the Right Equipment 61
High Flying Caver Drops a Bollock 455
How to Avoid Caving Trips 364
How to Increase Membership 78
Ice Formations in Caves 190
If its Caving You Do 721
In Praise of Naked Lights 167
Lava Caves of Lanzarote 455
Lifelining, A Safe Approach 359
Mammoth Cave 479
Otter Hole 326
Passages Named Pooh 506
Past Exploits of a (Not Very Bold) Caver 505
Pate Hole 366
Pumacocha (Andes) 513; 515; 516; 521
Romania 1989 471
Route Severity Diagrams 250; 251; 253; 255; 256; 261
Safety 13
Safety in Cave Diving 453
Secondary Lighting 158
Slit Sided Stalactites 208
Some Continental Show Caves 434
Some Thoughts on the Leader system 150
Sussex Underground 471
Tailor Made 340
Them Muddy ‘Oles 470
This Caving 73
Try Anything Once 81
WeilÂ’s Disease 360
WhatÂ’s in a Name 454
Why I am a Caver 174
Yorkshire Pot (Canada) 416
Cave Photography
Cave Photography 157; 160; 220; 221; 260
Colour Photography in Caves 69
Early Photographers and Their Work 460-407
Equipment for Cave Photography 299; 302
Exploring by Camera 124
Multiple Flash Unit 240; 245
Starting Cave Photography 39
Cave Surveying
A Brief Review on the Theory Available to the Cave Surveyor 253
Drawing of Accurate Cave Surveys 256; 258
Electromagnetic Surveying 132
Further Thoughts on Surveying 170
Grading Must Go 297
Notes on Cave Surveying 86; 89; 94; 100
On Describing the Accuracy of a Cave Survey 255
Photographic Cave Surveying 327
Some Comments on the Recent Surveying Articles 171
Some Thoughts on Cave Surveying Grading 169
Sunto Instrument Bracket and Maintenance 363
Surveys Past and Future 316
The Logistics of Cave Surveying 203
Barometers in Caves 142; 149; 161; 257
Traverse Closure in Cave Surveying 303; 304
Caving in Austria
Ahnenschacht 237; 239; 246; 261
Austria 1965 214
Austria 1981/82 412-415
Austria 1983 417; 423
Austria 1986 436;439
Austria 1990 457
Austria 1993 474
Caves in Upper Austria 249
Dachstein 201; 366; 370; 379; 388
Dachstein 1986 436
Dachstein 1991 464
Dachstein 1994 475
Dachstein 1999 506
Dachstein 2000 508; 512
Eislufthohle 378
Exploration in the Dachstein area 1992-1997 503
Jager Hohle 436
New Austrian Discovery 259
Raucher Week 222
The Exploration of C33 510
Totes Girbirger 354; 366
Caving in Britain
Caving in Derbyshire See below
Caving in South West England See below
Caving in the Isle of Wight 141
Caving in the Mendip Area See page 11
Caving in Scotland See page 15
Caving in Wales See page 16
Caving in Wiltshire 327; 340; 517
Caving in Yorkshire See page 17
Caving in Derbyshire
B.E.C. Visit to Derbyshire 99
Caving in Derbyshire 91; 93; 100; 101-103
Club Trip to Derbyshire (1952) 57
Club Trip to Derbyshire (1964) 197
Darfar Pot 422
Happy Birthday Stan (Peak Cavern) 368
Into the DevilÂ’s Arse 363
Knotlow Caverns 504
Peak Cavern Again 374
Pot BottomerÂ’s Delight 166
Caving in South West England
A Cave at Newton Abbot 123
Bakers Pit 35
Brixham Bone Cave 189
Caves at Berry Head 435; 439
Caves at Branscombe 506
Caves of Cornwall 9; 12; 26; 313
Kents Cavern 173
Pipers Hole (Scilly Isles) 384-385
Plymouth Caves 6
Portland Assaulted 391-392
Pridhamsleigh Cave 8; 24; 356
Raiders Rift 140
Reeds Cavern 19
Rocky Acres Cave 459
Sea Caves at Studland 401
Smugglers Hole 4
The Caves of Buckfastleigh 23
WarehamÂ’s Cave 406-407
Whiting Hole 478
Caving in the Mendip Area
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Avelines Hole Badger Hole BalchÂ’s Hole Banwell Caves BildonÂ’s Mole Project Bleadon and Hutton Caverns Blockhead Slocker Bog Hole Bowery Corner Swallet Burrington Coombe Burrington Master Cave Castle Farm Swallet Caves on Brean Down Caves on Bristol Waterworks Land Charterhouse Cave
Cheddar Caves |
497 252 4 166; 169; 170 372-373; 376-377 509 496 166 2 442; 453; 457 64; 307; 505 420 188; 195 523 140 410-411
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A Brief History of GoughÂ’s Caves A Lost Cave Site at Cheddar Caves Bigger, Better, Enormous Extensions Blood Chits for Cheddar Caves Cheddar River Cave Coopers Hole CoxÂ’s Cave; Souvenir China The 150th Anniversary of CoxÂ’s Cave The Enigmas of Cheddar Caves Thixotropia Blues |
440 384-385 384-385 252 434; 444 388-389; 39-392 518 442 397 439 |
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Christmas Hole Contour Cavern Cross Swallet Crystal Pot Diggers Corner East Twin Swallet
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168 238 24 37 494 250 |
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Eastwater Cavern A New System in Eastwater Cavern Boulder Chamber and Ifold’s Series Digging Burnished Passage Eastwater Cavern Flooding Incident History of Terminal Rift Digging History off Various Digs Life, The Universe and Eastwater Mellow Digs & Russian Womans Hands Morton’s Pot Dig Morton’s Pot – The Final Solution Radio Location in Eastwater Trial ands Tribulations of Eastwater West End Series White Elephant Breeding Grounds |
46-47 433 498 419 445 441 481 518 521 475; 516 522 424 519 420; 438; 445 57 |
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Elm Cave Emborough swallet Fairy Cave Area Fernhill Cave Five Buddles Sink G.B. Goatchurch Halloween Rift Hazelnut Swallet Heale Farm Cave HenryÂ’s Hole Hillgrove Water Tracing Honeymeade Hole HunterÂ’s Hole
HunterÂ’s Lodge Inn Sink |
391-392 137; 238 143; 296; 503; 505; 506 154 481; 494; 495; 500; 501 143 19; 77; 226 416; 419 500 247 417 252 146 127; 240; 514
As HunterÂ’s Lodge Inn Sink articles are a story of continuing exploration, they are in date order. |
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Beginning Last Laugh Dis Cam Following the Stream The Good and Bad News Beyond the Drip Tray Sump Broon Ale Boulevard Dives and Climbs Hair of the Dog Sump Pushing the Streamway Pushing the Barsteward & Filming Hangover Hill and Stillage Sump Summer Season at Stillage Sump Digging Update Below Pewter Pot |
511 514 514 515 515 516 516 517 517 518 518 518 519 522 523 |
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Ife Hole JillÂ’s Cave Lamb Leer LionelÂ’s Hole Little Crapnell Lodmore Hole Longwood/August Lost Caves of Mendip, The Loxton Cavern Rediscovered Maesbury Swallet Manor Farm Nine Barrows Swallet North Hill Swallet On the Naming of Caves OreÂ’s Close, Its cave and Mines PeakÂ’s Hole Pen Park Hole Priddy Green Sink Redcliffe Caves Reservoir Hole ReynoldÂ’s Rift Rhino Rift Rocket Drop Cave Rose Cottage Cave
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38 183 194; 476 361; 390 496 519 53; 54; 484 505 520 238 312; 358; 388-389; 401 167; 232; 238 498 183 517 42 156 484; 195; 502; 503 24; 25; 31; 76 510 318 311; 482; 481; 502 368 522; 523 |
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Saint CuthbertÂ’s Swallet A Psychological Experiment Account of Recent Activity (1958) Annexe Chamber Bug Hunting in CuthbertÂ’s Carbon Dioxide Concentrations in the Air CuthbertÂ’s Early Map CuthbertÂ’s Geology CuthbertÂ’s Rescue CuthbertÂ’s Revisited CuthbertÂ’s Two Dig in Gour Rift, The Digging Diving Operation Dragged from St. CuthbertÂ’s Fixed Tackle in St. CuthbertÂ’s Formations in CuthbertÂ’s Further Thoughts on St. CuthbertÂ’s Hanging Chamber Highways and Byways if CuthbertÂ’s Incident 24/1/1960 Laddering St. CuthbertÂ’s Lake Chamber Lead Sediments in St. CuthbertÂ’s Long Chamber Extension Marble Pot Maypole Series On a Trip on a Trip? On Crossing the Gower Fault Plantation Stream Practice Rescues Report of a New Discovery (1962) Return of the Natives September Series Sequence of Development of CuthbertÂ’s St. CuthbertÂ’s – Young or Old St. CuthbertÂ’s III St. CuthbertÂ’s Report Stream Feeding into CuthbertÂ’s Sump II. Where do we go from here Surveying in CuthbertÂ’s Swimming in St. CuthbertÂ’s Tourist Routes Towards Wookey Hole Uranium Dating of St. CuthbertÂ’s Waster Temperatures Water into CuthbertÂ’s Water Tracing Why IÂ’m Glad IÂ’m Thin |
208 128 194 170 499 133 171 216; 226 358 261; 274; 275 296; 315 238; 254 228 495 284 152 346; 366 125; 410-411 190; 209 144 233 242 358 410-411 381 126 402-403 212 166; 167 184; 195; 197; 198; 207; 211; 242; 248; 404-405 178 237 135; 160 200; 20 493 408-409 114; 116 482; 496 519 145; 146; 227 491 198 241; 241 485 118; 119; 120; 226 318 29; 296 109 |
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Saint GeorgeÂ’s Cave Sandpit Sandford Gulf Scramble Swallet Second Tier Cave Shatter Hole Sidcot Swallet Sludge Pit Snake Pit Some Caves near Bristol StewartÂ’s Hole
Stock House Shaft |
408-409 473 426 110 278 254; 261; 505 240; 305 481; 424 481 48 3
As Stock House Shaft articles are a story of continuing exploration, they are in date order. |
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Another Lost Cave Rediscovered A Small Cave Becomes a Large Mine A WinterÂ’s Tale The Spring Offensive Summer Madness Winter Draws On Towards the Hundredth Ton Digging into History The Breakthrough
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502 504; 505 506 507 508 509 510 511 512 |
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Stoke Lane Slocker |
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50 Years a 20 A Serious Warning Beyond Cairn Chamber Can You Find a Better Hole? Chrococcus Turgidus Flooding History New Discoveries Some Interesting Theories
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494 26 5 25 40 15 497 182; 293 20 |
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Swildons Hole |
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A Broadcast Before the Flood Diving Diving to Excess Exploration of the Nether Regions Exploring Swildons Hole Free Diving to Swildons 9 Long Round Trip My First Caving Trip Rescue Stereoscopic Survey Sump 12 Swildons Four Swildons goes to Wookey Swildons in Flood Swildons Revisited Vicarage Passage |
58 338 133 449 59 348 290 291 131 196; 210 368 393-394; 495 115; 131 227 501 475 408-409 |
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Tankards Hole Thrupe Lane Swallet Twin Titty Hole Tynings Barrow Swallet Upper Flood Swallet Viaduct Sink Waldegrave Swallet Waterlip Quarry Cave
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120; 134; 135 199; 369; 458; 516; 517 401 347; 360; 416 433 377-378; 381 509 362 |
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White Pit
The Waste of Thyme Management/Access St. AlactiteÂ’s Hall Foul Air in Cave Digs WelshÂ’s Green Swallet Prophecy Pot Extensions |
As White Pit articles are a story of continuing exploration, they are in date order. 468 472 478 491 495 496 |
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Wigmore Swallet |
As Wigmore Swallet articles are a story of continuing exploration, they are in date order. |
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Dig Success to Bolde Myners Christmas at Wigmore End of Part One Breakthrough Revisited Some Further Thoughts Still More about Wigmore Revisited Again Excavation and Exploration Digging News Notes of Survey Diving Only Another 5.75 Miles to Cheddar Death Throes Upstream Sump 3 Extension |
356 357 359 368 371 391-392 393-394 406-407 460 461 462 466 467 469 498 |
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Windsor Hill Swallet Withybrook Swallet
Wookey Hole |
441 7; 8; 318; 328 |
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65 Years of Diving Cam Valley Passage Dye Tracing Exploration 23 – 25 Free Diving to Nine Recent Exploration (1996) Rescue at Wookey Stopped by Mud Survey Up the Wadi Water Studies Where to in Wookey Wookey 1997 |
508 418 363 364 319 488 186 481 382 418 501; 504 495 494 |
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Caving in Scotland
A couple of Small Caves in Scotland 465
A Fortean Experience in Assynt 492
Annual Dinner Rescue 499
Assynt Again in August 469
Assynt Antics 460
Assynt Descents 465
Assynt in October 500
Elphin Epics 468
Highland Fling 455
Just Another Swift Half 481
Much Wittering on the Moors 504
New Discoveries in Cnoc Nan Uamh 475
Rob RoyÂ’s Cave 148
Scotland (1998) 497
Some Scottish Caves 154
Surveying on Staffa 523
Sutherland (1978) 246
Ten go Caving in Sutherland 466
Tree Hole 460
Uamha a’ Bhrisdedh – Duile & Tree Hole 468
Caving in Wales
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A Caving meet in South Wales A New Cave Near Brecon Agen Allwedd Beneath Llangattwg Callan Pot Caving in Mynydd Ddu Caving in North Wales Caving in South Wales Caving on the Gower Ceirog Caves |
195 190 184; 219; 236; 443; 445 362 214 504 10; 32; 61; 153 117; 121; 242 288 29 |
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Club Trip to South Wales Cwm Dwr Dan-yr-Ogof
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226 336 219; 236; 282; 391-392; 517
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Daren Cilau
Daren Cilau Extension – The Story so Far Daren Cilau Extension on Llangattock Mountain Nine Days of Hard Rock Hospitality Daren on the Move Progress in the Far reaches of Daren Cilau First Impressions Unfinished Business in Daren Cilau The B.E.C. in Daren Cilau in 2004 |
As Daren Cilau articles are a story of continuing exploration, they are in date order. 433 434; 435; 437; 440 438 439 442 449 452 494 521 |
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Digging in the Clydach Gorge Gower – Pays des Caverns Llangattwg Caves Update (1988) Little Neath River Cave Llethrid Cave Nant-y-Glais New Caves at Ystradfeltte Ogof Ffynnon Ddu Ogof Hasp Alyn Ogof Rhyd Sych Pant Pawr Pothole Porth-yr-Ogof Rock and Fountain South Pembrokeshire Tunnel Cave Twll Gwyn Oer Whitsun in Pembroke |
462 90 447 262; 397 28; 193 340 190 39; 120; 239; 247; 253; 257 421 397 290 285 356; 367 357 362 376-377 213 |
Caving in Yorkshire
A No Name Article 364
A Visit to North Pennine in Autumn 87
All to Pot 318
B.E.C. Expedition to Yorkshire (1978) 361
Back Door to White Scar 393-394
Beginners (and Friends) 335
Birks Fell 314
Black Shiver – Attempt 255
Black Shiver – Success 260
Car Pot 273
Caving in the Raw 461
Connecting Pippikin to Lancaster 372-373
Diccan/Alum Through Trip 328
Easter 1966 218
Gaping Gill 225; 314; 517; 523
Ireby Fell Cavern 207
Juniper Gulf 252; 356
Langstroth Pot 309; 314
Large Pot 417
Link Pot 384-385
Lost Johns New Roof Traverse 275
Meregill 254
New Finds in Valley Entrance 339
New Year, Caving in the Dales 371
Northern Weekend 337
Notts Pot 261
Penyghent Pot 250; 278
Pippikin Pot 344; 358
Potholing in Yorkshire 105
Providence Pot to Dow Cave 401
Shafts and All That 274
Simpson to Swinsto Non-exchange 248
Some Lesser Yorkshire Caves 295
Straws Two Metres Long 517
Stream Passage Pot 262
Swinsto at Last 499
Swinsto Hole 307
Swinsto/Kingsdale 275
Tatum Wife Hole 324
The Descent of King Pot 364
The Mohole 333
The Northern Caving Scene 274
The S.M.D.T. in Yorkshire 304
There Smaller Caves of Wharfdale 300
Trip to Upper Easgill 64
Whitsun in Yorkshire (1962) 161
Whitsun in Yorkshire (1966) 221
Whitsun in Yorkshire (1976) 343
Whitsun in Yorkshire (1978) 365
Yorkshire 281; 294; 300; 328; 380
Caving in France
A Few Notes on French Caves 88
Aven dÂ’Orgnac 36
B.E.C. at P.S.M. 323
B.E.C. Summer Holidays in the Pyrenees 462
Bel Espoir – Dia Traverse 404-405
Berger 1985 433
Berger 1985 – Getting There 432
Buckets and Pails in the Ardeche 404-405
Causse du Gramat, Easter (1999) 503
Cave Diving in the Dordogne 512
Cave Paintings of Le Portal 281
Caves in the Pyrenees – Grotte de Gargas 31
Caves in the Pyrenees – Niaux 30
Caving in France 254
Caving in the Lot 478
Completely Bergered? 427
Diving Record in the Dordogne 509
Dordogne (1989) 454
Dordogne (1990) 462
Dordogne Revisited 484
Expedition Ariege 261
France (1981) 402-403
France (1983) 440
French Caving Techniques 22
From Vercours Plateau to Ardeche Gorge 406-407
Going to the Caves 512
Gouffre de Corbeaux 157
Gouffre de la Pierre St. Martin 249
Gouffre of Coume Ferrat 276
Grotte de Moulin Maquis 471
LÂ’Aven Grotte de Marzell 42
La Cave and Padirac 288
Lascaux II, Montignac, Brive 446
Le Grand Souce 504
Le Grotte de Favot 43
Le Grotte du Bournillon 41
Maypole Dance 325
More French Show Caves 442
Notes on a Caving Trip to France 17
P.S.M. (1975) 335
Pyrenees (1974) 330
Show Caving in the Ardeche 437
Tanne de Bel Espoir – Diau 511
The Fives Caves Show 290
The Great Cave of Chevre-Eglise 290
The Mines of Le Saut, Mribel 495
The Subterranean River of Brambiau 33
The Voyage of the “Calypso”, Dordogne 452
Trip to the Berger 291
Underground Laboratories of Moulis 190
Vercours, South West France 388-389
Caving in India
Meghalaya (1994) 476
Meghalaya (1997) 494
Meghalaya (1998) 496
Meghalaya (1998) 467
Meghalaya (1998) 468
Meghalaya (1999) 501
Meghalaya (2000) 507
Meghalaya (2002) 514
Meghalaya (2003) 516
Meghalaya (2004) 519
IndiaÂ’s Third longest Cave 513
Meghalaya (2005) 522
Caving in Ireland
Down The Thurlough 419
Ireland (1954) 85
Ireland (1967) 232
Ireland (1975) 239
Ireland (1986) 425
Ireland (1994) 474
Poll Na G Ceim 435
Pollaraftra 209
Sleepless in a Skoda 499
Stretching Time in County Clare 410-412
Tales from County Cork 459
The Lads in Ireland (1984-1986) 451
Trip to Clare (1985) 432
Trip to Clare (1986) 434
Trip to County Clare (1995) 479
Caving in Spain
A Visit to la Cueva de Nerja 156
Badalona 474
BU56 (1991) 466
CasteretÂ’s Ice Cave 463
Shrimpbones, Mongooses & Porcupines 509
Sima G.E.S.M. 463
Spain (1962) 168
Spanish for Beginners 453
Systema Cueto – Coventoso- Cuvera 511
The Grand Tour – Caving Style 365
Tito Bustillo – Northern Spain 404-405
Climbing
4,000’s in Winter, The 282
A Climb on Dartmoor 109
A Day in Letterewe Forest 290
A New Climb at Black Rock Quarry 301
A Rope Ladder for a Crevasse Rescue 154
A Trip to Spitsbergen 100
Along the Cumbrian Way 423
Analysis of an Accident 240
Are Rock Climbers Lazy 64
Austrian Tyrol 62
Balatious 501
Black Mountains, The 65
Bluebell Quarry Climbs 430
BMC Saga 355
British West Indies 19
Caerfai SW Face 1974 329
Changabang 362
Cheddar 31
Climbing??????? 499
Climbing for the Over 40’s 468
Climbing Huts in Wales 107
Climbing in 1971-1972 295
Climbing in Cornwall 172; 298
Climbing in SE England 22; 194
Dewar Stones 66
Don’t Eat Yellow Snow 362
Easter 1971 in Scotland 289
Easter in Cornwall 147
Edward Whymper 498
Enchanted Mountain, the 273
Fred Davies Forty? 313
In the Brecon Beacons 292
In the Cuillins 281
Islands and Highlands 108
Jane, Spain, Plane 458
Just Like Old Times 109
Lake District See page 21
Living in Style 271
Loch Coruisle 243
Losing a Mountain 94
Mount Cameroon 38
Near Massacre at Glen Coe 99
Neouvielle 311
North Wales See page 21
On Climbing ‘Victis’ 262
On the Ice Factor 523
Open Air Caving 306
Otzatler Alpen and Bernina 247
Peak District 3
Pembrokeshire 197
Personal reflections on Climbing 324
Rescue in Langdale 242
Scotland 242
Search for Pant-y-Crac 510
Simonds Yat 196
Skiing on Blackdown 190
Ski Mountaineering 296
Skye 91; 97; 209
Snow and Ice in Scotland 114
Snowdon at Sunrise 106
Some Climbing Snippets 458
Some Peaks in the NW Highlands 352
Static in the Cairngorms 399
Swanage 251
Switzerland 1975 338
Torridon ’70 283
Utopia on Mendip 251
Weekend on the Dewerstone 184
Why go to Iceland 76
Climbing in Lake District
A Dryish Easter in the Lakes 352
A long Weekend in Langdale 291
A Month in the Cumbrian Mountains 154
A Week in the Lakes (1953) 73
A Week in the Lakes (1975) 328
Another Menace Episode 20
Buttermere Fells 326
Christmas (1950) 43
Christmas (1951) 53
Faith and Friction 16
Surrey North Independent Transport to the Lake District 398-399
Climbing in North Wales
A New Way Off Yr Elen 152
Another Mighty Saga 41
Blaenant Farm 44
Climbing in November 201
Dicing in North Wales 35
High Camp on Crib-y-Ddysgl 83
In Search of Snow 123
Lliwedd 42
Occasional Writings of the Climbing Section 283
Racing in North Wales 129
Running an Instructional Course 98
SellÂ’s Baptism 237
Snow and Ice in North Wales 251
Snow Ridge Climb 43
Snowdonia in January 294
The Great Gully of Craig-yr-Isfa 131
The Years Climbing (1965) 214
Two Cliffs in Llanberis 80
Weekend in North Wales 110; 122; 152; 154; 178; 182; 189; 191; 192; 198; 199; 280; 281; 300; 326; 330
Whitsun (1950) 37
Yet Another North Wales Trip 304
Geology and Archaeology
Archaeology 11; 128; 159; 161; 163; 165
Rocks in South America 10
Bones in Stoke Lane 40
Belfry Site 40; 42; 43
Cadbury Camp 139
Dating of Archaeological Specimens 64
Palaeolithic Art at Naiux 270
Torridon Sandstone 135
History
A Night to Remember 504
A statistical History of the B.E.C. 521
BB 300 311
Belfry in 1949, The 502
Christmas 1962 302
Early days 429
From the Past 519
Goatchurch 340
Growth of the BEC 349; 350; 351; 352; 353; 354
History of the BB 290
History of the BEC 3; 27; 147; 237; 293
The Rise & fall of B.E.C. membership 522
True Tales from History 343
Humourous
A Season of Goodwill 261
A tale of Two Caving Huts 326
Alternate Glossary of Caving Terms 476
An Imaginary Tale 443
Annual Report of the B.B.L.H. & S.R.G. 280; 302; 314
Beer Quotes 494
Belfry Birds 61
Digging for Cheese 523
Excuses Reasons for not Going Caving 178
Fauna Around the Belfry 450
Fish of Ffynnon Ddu 76
Funny Expressions 498
Ghost of Rookham Hill, The 178
Gwyn & HilaryÂ’s Grot Caving Menu 500
Historic Occasions 248
Isis 470
Last Tour of Mendip 290
Letters to/from the Duke of Mendip 71; 72; 81; 84; 91
More Belfry Birds 63
Nicknames 504
Pandemonium on Seutra Hill 280
Rest Assures 345
The Coming of the Mark III 337
Trapped in a Chair 190
Weegee Goes West 290
Words of Little Wisdom 499
Wot I Did in mi Sumurr Holeesaz 486
List of Members
List of Members 1948 10;11;12; 13; 14; 15; 16; 17; 18
List of Members 1949 22;23; 24; 25; 26; 27; 28; 29
List of Members 1950 34;35; 36; 37; 38; 39; 40; 42
List of Members 1956 108
List of Members 1957 119
List of Members 1958 131; 132
List of Members 1959 142
List of Members 1960 154
List of Members 1961 16
List of Members 1962 178
List of Members 1963 190
List of Members 1964 201
List of Members 1966 225
List of Members 1967 236
List of Members 1968 247
List of Members 1969 259
List of Members 1970 279
List of Members 1971 289
List of Members 1972 301
List of Members 1973 313
List of Members 1974 325
List of Members 1975 336
List of Members 1976 344
List of Members 1977 255
List of Members 1978 367
List of Members 1979 379
List of Members 1980 382; 391-392
List of Members 1981 395-396
List of Members 1982 406-407; 412-415
List of Members 1983 None
List of Members 1984 None
List of Members 1985 431
List of Members 1986 437
List of Members 1987 442
List of Members 1988 447
List of Members 1989 452
List of Members 1990 457
List of Members 1991 None
List of Members 1992 463
List of Members 1993 467
List of Members 1994 476
List of Members 1995 481
List of Members 1996 None
List of Members 1997 491
List of Members 1998 495; 498
List of Members 1999 493
Mendip Rescue Organisation Matters
Annual MRO Report 28; 55; 69; 220; 361; 372-373; 384-385; 408-409; 410-411; 423; 454; 459
Fatal Accident in Wookey 21
Longwood Tragedy 433
Night we Heard the Wild Goose Cry 147
Practice Rescue in Stoke Lane 301
Practice Rescue in Goatchurch 367
Rescue in Two Caves 157
Watch That Stal 294
Mining
Alderley Edge Copper Mines 404-405
Bathstone Mines 419
Box Mines 364
Chalk Mine (Herts) 11; 12
Chilham Stone Mine 327
Coombe Martin Mines 130
Coniston Copper Mines 391-392
CuthbertÂ’s Leadworks 250
Dan-y-Craig Quarry 426
Derelict Lead Mine in Swaledale 44
Desilverisation of Mendip Lead 111; 112
Eastwood Manor Mines 504
Finedon Iron Stone Mines 465
Geever Mine 408-409
Holly Bush Shaft, Shipham 518
Lead Mining Methods 348
Lynford Mines, Sandford 517
Magpie Mine 39; 243
Mendip Mining 15; 113; 114; 117; 272; 504; 505
MershamÂ’s Underground Stone Quarries 422
Mines of the Harptree Area 107; 467; 506; 510
Mine Shafts and Dangers 249
Mine Sites on Churchill Knowle 520
Mining a Century Ago 421
Ochre Mines at Wets Horrington 372-373
Risca Lead Mine 437
Roman Mine 206; 214
Romano-British Lead Smelting at Priddy 70
Rookham Wood Mine Shaft 240
Sandstone Mines in West Sussex 454
Singing River Mine 484
Smitham Chimney 301
Star Mines 376-377
Stock Hill Mine 461; 467
Tales of Chiltern Chalk Mines 360
Tales of Talking Trees 427
Tin Mining in Cornwall 121; 122
Virgin Islands Copper mines 440
Miscellaneous
Stereoscopic Photography 115; 116
Summary of the Constitution 255
Summer 1981 in the Alps 402-403
Supping Tups Arse in Dentdale 492
SW Africa and Fish River Canyon 421
Swiss Cave Congress 472
Synthetic Ropes for Caving 249
Tackle Story 304
The Final Word on F and Bloody M 511
There’s This Computer 337
This or That? 146
Tinkering Around Perthshire 279
Tourists Caving Abroad, A 416
Towards a National Council? 219
Trappiste as Newts 382
Travels in Africa 329; 330
Travels in America 506; 508; 510
Travels with a Test Tube 298; 308
Under England’s Mountains Green 459
Under the Ice 428
Up the Creek 320
Victoria Falls 214
Vimy Ridge 46
Voting Methods 190
Wansdyke 100
Warehouse, Gloucester, The 482
Waterfall 253
Webbing Knot 305
Weak Karabiners 99
Weekend in the Chilterns 349
Welsh Rarebit 75
West Virginia 1988 445
What Happened to the Mammoth? 178
What the Well Dressed Caver Should Wear 92
What to do With Your Oldhams 357
Whimsey in Wales 119
Why Not Come Caving? 107
Why Ski in the Pyrenees 363
Wig in Caving. The 522
Wildlife Countryside Act 1982 416
William Eggy-Belch 523
Winter Motoring in the Alps 80
Wookey Hole Inscriptions 504
Yellowstone to Florida 406-407
Obituaries
Bryan Ellis 503
Dan and Stella Hassell 490
Dave Yeandle 514
Don Coase 121
Graham Balcombe 507
H.E. Balch 125
Jock Orr 518
John Stafford 513
Luke Devenish 473
Oliver Lloyd 431
Robert Davies 467; 498
Royston Bennett 451
Sago and Tich 508
Poems
A B.E.C. Type Cave Report 190
A Letter of Lamentation 64
A Little Too Keene! 190
A Pressing Point 309
A Son of Mendip 481
Bats of Bristol’s Belfry 150
Beerwulf 131
Bender 33
Biffo 401
Butcombe Blues, The 473; 502
Cangi 122
Castle on the Hill 317
Caver, O Caver 163
Caving Formulae 230
Chaucer’s Prologue 214
County Councils 313
Diving 14
Down Swildons Hole 473
Dreadful Ditties 508
Dry Humour 38
Experimentation 125
Exploring Bravely Underground 5
Gazzum’s Brain Child 90
Gentle Dizzie 41
Hill in Bat 477
Hut Wardens Report 1994-95 480
Immortal Statement, The 67
In Olden Days 52
Irish Easter 419
Janet’s Last Monroe 496
Memoirs of Mendip in the Forties 517
Motorbikes 19
Mystery, The 5
Nigel’s Dirty Weekend 456
O for a Skylark 64
Ode to a Digging Bat 46
On the Bog 329
Our Belfry on the Hill 4
Poem 5; 146
Poem by William Browne (1590) 13
Poet’s Corner 115
Pome 44
Practice Rescue in St. Cuthbert’s 1981 404-405
Pre Speleode 7
Priddy Green Song, The 499
Rubaiyat of Omar ‘Obbs, The 119
Ruthless Rhymes for Callous Cavers 65
Saint Cuthbert and the Yorkies 454
Shepton Mallet Caving Club 118
Snaffle-plate Sonnet 35
Some People 71
Sonnets 94; 131; 132; 133; 134; 136; 137
Speleode by Snab 462
Tale of the Wessex Cattle Grid 416
Thoughts of a Claustrophobic Mum 181
Thoughts of Chairman Sid, The 237
Triple Trouble in the Double Troubles 390
Waldegrave Swallet 509
Weathers 42
Whatever is Worth Doing with Worthwords 395-396
Who? 154
Words of Little Wisdom 499
Wot No Cookies 462
You Have Had Your Wordsworth 66
Review Of Books
1967 Expedition to the Gouffre Berger 247
About Caves 261
British Caving 80
Cave Surveying 226
Caves and Cave Diving 113
Caves and Caving 241
Caves and Tunnels in SE England 471
Caves of Mendip, The 114
Caves of NW Clare 255
Caves of South Wales 372-373
Caves of the Great Hunters, The 119
Caves of Wales and the Marches 238
Caving and Potholing 401
Caving Clubs of Mendip, The 119
Darkness Under the Earth 82
Death of an Owl 167
Doolin – St. Catherine’s Caves 214
Four Hundred Centuries of Cave Art 74
Great Storm and Floods of 1968, The 279
International Expedition to the Goufre Berger 119
Kent and East Sussex Underground 471
Limestone and Caves of NW England 316
Mendip Karts Hydrology Research Project 239
Mendip Underground 440
My Caves by Casteret 10
Northern Caves Vol. 5 358
One Thousand Metres Down 119
Paeolithic Cave Art 261
Penguin Parade 33
Pennine Underground 7
Pioneer Under the Mendips 262
Plume of Smoke, The 62
Potholing Under the Northern Pennines 198
Quarrying in Somerset 293
Rivers of London 192
Shropshire Mining Annual and Year Book 242
Speleological Yearbook & Diary, The 202
SWETC Expedition to Norway 355
Underground Adventure 59; 164
Vertical Caving 378
Volcanoes in History 197
Walks in Limestone Country 290
Songs
A Carbide Lamp Totally Failed 77
A Local Bloke from Rodney Stoke 164
A Winter’s Tale 503
Amalgamation Song, The 498
At Our Belfry on the Hill 501
BEC Song, The 150; 494; 495
BEC Thrutching Song, The 76
Belfry Benaviora 8
Belfry Boy, The 358; 481
Beneath the Boozer 518
Bottom that Hole 485
Boulder Have a Crunch on Me 498
Bowery Corner Song 448
Boys of the Hill, The 471; 518
Complete Caver, The 461
Diggers Song, The 305; 410-411; 499
Diving 14
Droves of Priddy, The 469
Exploration Club Song, The 493
Golden Jubilee of the BEC 432
Goon’s 40 Years 501
Heeland Cavers 500
If it’s Caving you will Go 68
John Riley 87
Mountaineer’s Duet, the 76
My Mate He is a Caver 470
Novice Rap, The 472
Ode to a Beeza 12
Ode to Black Betty 500
Ode to Vince on his Geburstag 500
Song of a Speleo-biologist 18
Song of the CCPS 104; 471
Steigl 474; 475
Tankard Hole Song 497
There is a Tavern in the Town 99
We are the Exploration Club 273
Wee Caver Wha’ Carn Fae Fife, The 500
Wessex Cave Club Hymn 496
Young Mendip Caver, The 358; 508