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 to right....Jack Fell, Simon...

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 Middle...

June 2024 at Skippy's house, 5 former WMCEG cavers

The reunion of WMCEG club members made me feel sorry (for the first time in my life) that I never went down a cave. It was sheer joy just to watch how seeing each other, you turned into your younger selves – cheerful, beautiful [? ed.], carefree. This transformation...

19/08/17: Sadly to my great loss I have been off the WMCEG scene since (it seems) the last 2 centuries, though with this proposed reunion coming up I find the memories come flooding back of the amazing times and adventures we shared together.  I’m not sure who is...

I used to go caving with the WMCEG around about 1970/71. I remember a few exploits as well as drinks in the Bear Hotel Crickhowell followed by a dodgy drive to the Sunday School hut.Are there any pics available, especially of our dig? Cornflake passage was memorable....

There were a few combined trips and a little overlap with the Dudley cavers. WMCEG members who went on to join Dudley were me, Jim Durr, Dave Bowdley, Jim Lister and Andy Grimes. I think this is everyone. On joint trips I can recall caving with Colin Hayward, Bill...

From what is now the dimming past, but with fond memories of a mis spent youth with wayyy too much beer and outrageous parties in some even more outrageous locations. Like a long abandoned cottage in a slate mine valley in North Wales. The now Ex-club house in South...

I humbly submit that it was I, who in 1959, collected the names and addresses of those who would become the original members of the WMCEG. In October and November of that year I invited them all to meet at a pub in Park Street, Birmingham, and at the second meeting...

It's sad to hear that the club finally folded, but great to hear that you are remaking contacts. I was a member from around about 1988 to 1990. My nickname was Tyrone or Mr T.