County Clare #2

by | Feb 6, 2025 | Expeditions

My memories of this trip are quite vague and somewhat confused with memories of our previous visit.  Anyway, thanks to Mike Simms (aka Cissy) we now have the set of photos below and a little more detail.  We were there for a week, from August 31st.  This time we hired...

County Clare #1

by | Dec 23, 2024 | Expeditions

I need to preface this slightly: It was a long time ago and there’s a distinct risk of me conflating memories about the two trips to Clare in which I was involved, other remiscinces may differ, please let me know what I’ve got wrong! I think the first of...

Nick Southwick

by | Dec 23, 2024 | Reminiscences

Nick sent a photo of members of the ‘West midlands Cave Exploration Group’ taken next to the ‘Old Darren School Hut’ in 1968 when a proposed 24hr trip into Aggy’.If I remember we only achieved 18 hours before we were knackered. From left...

Ian Shipley

by | Aug 3, 2024 | Reminiscences

I happened to come to Ingleton for a break this week (may 2024) for the first time since I used to come regularly with the club in the 1990’s.  I took our two boys on their first ever caving trip yesterday, just a bit of fun with a simple through trip from...