1 BELFRY BULLETIN Volume 36 Nos. 2 & 3 Numbers 406 & 407 February & March 1982 MONTHLY JOURNAL OF THE BRISTOL EXPLORATION CLUB The Bristol Exploration Club, The Belfry, Wells Road, Priddy, Wells, Somerset . Telephone: Wells (0749) 72126. Editor: G. Wilton-JonesAylesbury, Buckinghamshire. Telephone: Aylesbury (0296) xxxxx. CONTENTS:
Club Committee Monthly Notes Lifeline Members Address List Wareham's Cave + survey Book Review - The Cave Explorers Early Cave Photographers From Yellowstone to Florida Wigmore Revisited (Again!) From Vercors Plateau to Ardeche Gorge Diau survey Subscriptions Late notes and news. Diary dates
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* * * * * Once again there are no apologies for this late combined issue. The timing bands (for the nontechnical, they're important bits!) on the printing machine snapped in January, and I have been waiting since then for Gestetner to supply new ones. They arrived yesterday (16.3.82), I rebuilt the machine last night, and Herr Blitz is assisting with printing tonight. In the last issue I suggested you make a resolution: to write an article, a line, anything. Somebody took me at my word. Dear Ed. Rotten idea. Not well hidden in this paragraph is somebody's version of 'anything'. Edited, it reads: "RE. DISCO AT DINNER DEAR ED. ROTTEN IDEA! CHRIS BRADSHAW." Yes, I am prepared to consider ANYTHING for publication. I did not manage to get the M.R.O. reports in this issue, but I'll make every effort to get them in next time. Also in the next issue, another of Kangyâ€&#x;s songs, some useful info on dry nickel cadmium cells; a description of the Geevor tin processing plant, an article about one of the old Belfries plus the usual upto-the-minute news from around the country and indeed, the world. * * From the Daily Telegraph, 11th March, 1982:
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"There are also rumours of vast, underground wine-lakes. Why were a team of potholers, exploring the cave system at Grampus Moor near Nerdley, last week-end, staggering about helplessly drunk when they reached the surface?" * * * * * The Grottede lde a Diau survey printed on page 28, kindly reproduced by Jeremy H. and his underlings, belongs with the article in last bi-monthâ€&#x;s B.B. Just in case you wondered.