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Brynlow Mine	Title line: Brynlow Mine has parts dating back to the Bronze Age but most of the mine is 18th and 19th century. In the 1860s, it formed part of the Hough Level route between Wood Mine and Engine Vein.
Brynlow Mine	The entrance looking up valley. The figures give scale.
Brynlow Mine	The entrance during digging
Brynlow Mine	Opening the mine
Brynlow Mine	In the Brynlow Adit
Brynlow Mine	Car Shaft
Brynlow Mine	At the junction in Brynlow adit
Brynlow Mine	The end section of the adit
Brynlow Mine	Shothole at end of adit
Brynlow Mine	On the fault at adit level
Brynlow Mine	Formations in Brynlow adit
Brynlow Mine	In the adit following the fault
Brynlow Mine	The dig on the Hough level
Brynlow Mine	1764 on the wall in Brynlow
Brynlow Mine	1866 on the wall in Brynlow
Brynlow Mine	1805 date
Brynlow Mine	1866 date
Brynlow Mine	Visitor in the mine
Brynlow Mine	Abandoned miners' ladder, probably from the 20th century
Brynlow Mine	Climbing up to the highest point
Brynlow Mine	Top main passage in Brynlow
Brynlow Mine	Possible Bronze age pits
Brynlow Mine	Recent capping on the inclined shaft in Brynlow
Brynlow Mine	In the high-level passages
Brynlow Mine	In the high-level passages
Brynlow Mine	18th century passage
Brynlow Mine	18th century passage
Brynlow Mine	Boot Hill
Brynlow Mine	Water transport
Caves	Title line: General caving pictures from UK and Europe. You will find more caving pictures in the Club albums.
Caves	Title line: Gaping Gill via Bar Pot - 2007
Caves	Preparing for the trip
Caves	Directions to the court
Caves	Checking the rules for setting up the net
Caves	Setting up in Sand Cavern
Caves	Practice
Caves	Refreshments - Robinsons Barley Water, of course
Caves	Coming out on the winch
Caves	Gaping Gill entrance
Caves	Title line: Wretched Rabbit (1) and Notts II (2-4) - 2007
Caves	Rigging and descending
Caves	Climbing the scaffolded route into Notts II
Caves	In Notts II - keep smiling!
Caves	Main stream in Notts II
Caves	Title line: Sutherland - 2006
Caves	Awaiting caption
Caves	Awaiting caption
Caves	Awaiting caption
Caves	Awaiting caption
Caves	Title line: Alum Pot, Yorkshire - 2006
Caves	Classic view towards Alum Pot
Caves	In Alum Pot
Caves	Looking out
Caves	Approaching the Bridge
Caves	Title line: Fatigue Pot, Derbyshire - 2006
Caves	Tight entrance
Caves	Inside
Caves	Tight crawl
Caves	It's a bit dirty in there!
Caves	Title line: Giants Hole, Derbyshire - 2006
Caves	In the Crab Walk
Caves	Wet cascade
Caves	Wet cascade
Caves	In the Oxlow connection
Caves	Title line: Lost John*s Pot, Yorkshire - 2006
Caves	The group
Caves	Narrow passage
Caves	Easy passage
Caves	Tight passage
Caves	Title line: Sell Gill Holes, Yorkshire - 2005
Caves	Tony entering the cave
Caves	Tony going down the main pitch
Caves	John in the crawl between the pitches
Caves	Nigel and Tony at the bottom of the main pitch
Caves	Title line: Caving trip to Skye - 2005
Caves	Allan
Caves	Allan
Caves	Simon
Caves	Simon
Caves	Title line: Speedwell Cavern, Derbyshire - 2004
Caves	Preparing kit including the dinghy to collect rubbish
Caves	Returning up the pitch from the bottom
Caves	Title line: Trip to Matienzo in 2007
Caves	In Coquisera. It's warm in them there caves!
Caves	Coventosa, a magnificent cave and quite easy access.
Caves	Formations in Coventosa.
Caves	Sometimes, the pitches get a bit tight.
Caves	Title line: Jugholes, Derbyshire - August 2008
Caves	Between the two holes at Jugholes. There is daylight below.
Caves	Looking out to daylight. The previous picture was looking down here.
Caves	Looking into Jugholes. The way to the lower cave is on the right.
Caves	Inside the 20th century fluorspar mine.
Caves	The main entrance to Jugholes. Lower cave on the left.
Caves	Tub in the last chamber before the adit exit.
Caves	Tub in the last chamber before the adit exit.
Caves	Tub in the last chamber before the adit exit.
Caves	Stone arching in the adit entrance.
Caves	The adit entrance tube.
Caves	Simon and Allan outside the adit.
Caves	Simon and Nigel outside the adit.
Caves	Title line: Peak Cavern trips - 14 Feb and 28 Feb 2010
Caves	14/02/10 Setting off from the Bottomless Pit
Caves	14/02/10 The Miners' toast
Caves	14/02/10 The Bunghole
Caves	14/02/10 Duck!
Caves	Starting off at the end of the Five Arches
Caves	Tom setting off
Caves	In the Mucky Ducks
Caves	In the dry link to Surprise View
Caves	Surprise View, Bill on the ladder
Caves	Going downstream
Caves	Going downstream
Caves	The final sump
Caves	Squaw Junction
Caves	Upstream
Caves	Sporting cascade
Caves	Approaching the Far Sump
Caves	The boulder pile
Caves	Bill in Far Sump
Caves	Bill relaxes
Caves	Tony - a bit damp
Cobalt Mine	Title line: The Cobalt Mine was worked in the early nineteenth century for cobalt used in pottery glaze.
Cobalt Mine	The Wizard Car Park shaft, the first shaft cleared, now covered in leaves
Cobalt Mine	Tom's Shaft conveniently located inside the DCC museum
Cobalt Mine	The well, first point of entry
Cobalt Mine	Holly Shaft in the woods near the main car park. The shaft is the earthy mound
Cobalt Mine	Looking up the temporary ladder in Tom's Shaft
Cobalt Mine	The bottom of Tom's Shaft. Steps can be seen in the wall. The water level goes up and down.
Cobalt Mine	In the flats near the main car park entrance
Cobalt Mine	A circular winze within the mine
Cobalt Mine	Small passages
Cobalt Mine	In the flats. The walls are 'deadwalls' left by the miners.
Cobalt Mine	One of the smaller sections in the Cobalt Mine
Cobalt Mine	Shuttering where sand has slipped down from above. The flat wall on the right is the fault wall.
Cobalt Mine	The arched passage near Holly Shaft. The white line shows a previous water level.
Cobalt Mine	A sump near Holly Shaft
Cobalt Mine	Working on the staging in Holly Shaft
Cobalt Mine	Climbing out
Engine Vein	Title line: Engine Vein has been worked since the Bronze Age. It was last worked in the late nineteenth century. It exhibits a wide variety of interesting geology.
Engine Vein	Title line: Surface and entrance passage
Engine Vein	Engine Vein surface
Engine Vein	Engine Vein in winter
Engine Vein	Bronze Age workings
Engine Vein	Bronze Age workings viewed from below
Engine Vein	Digging Balloon Shaft
Engine Vein	Digging Ring Shaft
Engine Vein	Digging Bear Pit - the winch
Engine Vein	Digging Bear Pit
Engine Vein	The Vein concreted over after cleaning off the material that had built up over the years
Engine Vein	New entrance (before enlarging)
Engine Vein	Inside the entrance passage
Engine Vein	Azurite spheres near the entrance
Engine Vein	Title line: Pot Shaft and the Roman workings
Engine Vein	Pot Shaft archaeological dig
Engine Vein	Pot Shaft archaeological dig with DCC members working on it
Engine Vein	The days the coins were found
Engine Vein	The Roman coins
Engine Vein	The Roman level before excavation
Engine Vein	The Roman level after excavation
Engine Vein	The Roman level after excavation looking back into the main passage
Engine Vein	Pot Shaft from below
Engine Vein	Title line: Underground workings
Engine Vein	Steps placed in the mine to make easier access to the Roman gallery
Engine Vein	Under the concrete
Engine Vein	Under the concrete - the white is fungus
Engine Vein	Under the concrete capping. Semi-pillars on the right support the roof. The wooden steps are behind the figure.
Engine Vein	Timbering in the main passage
Engine Vein	Timbering in the main passage
Engine Vein	Starting down the steps from the foot of the ramp, heading for the main chamber
Engine Vein	At the start of the bridge
Engine Vein	Approaching the bridge
Engine Vein	On the bridge
Engine Vein	Visitors on the bridge
Engine Vein	Shotholes in the hanging wall beyond the bridge
Engine Vein	Beyond the bridge
Engine Vein	The high level bridge at Bear Pit
Engine Vein	Old workings on the vein
Engine Vein	In the main chamber, looking east towards the bridge and the entrance
Engine Vein	The archway into the chamber at the west end of the mine. The ladders leads up to some passages close to the surface
Engine Vein	Ripple Roof Chamber
Engine Vein	A low crawl at the top end of the mine
Engine Vein	West End extension
Engine Vein	West End extension
Engine Vein	Digging Blue Shaft passage
Engine Vein	Digging Blue Shaft passage - laying the railway
Engine Vein	Digging Blue Shaft passage
Engine Vein	Digging Blue Shaft passage
Engine Vein	Fault in Blue Shaft passage
Engine Vein	The fault in Blue Shaft passage - this is the smooth wall on the right
Engine Vein	Top of Bear Pit
Engine Vein	The coffin level above Blue Shaft
Engine Vein	A person giving scale to the coffin level
Engine Vein	Crawling in top level of mine, close to the surface
Engine Vein	In the top level of mine
Engine Vein	Title line: Blue Shaft and the Hough Level
Engine Vein	Blue Shaft
Engine Vein	Part of the ladder way in Blue Shaft
Engine Vein	Blue Shaft
Engine Vein	Blue Shaft
Engine Vein	Digging Balloon passage
Engine Vein	Tipping down Bear Pit
Engine Vein	Bear Pit ore chute
Engine Vein	Bear Pit ore chute
Engine Vein	The junction in Hough level
Engine Vein	Ring Shaft ore chute
Engine Vein	Ring Shaft ore chute
Engine Vein	Clay formation in Ring Shaft passage
Engine Vein	The Boat
Engine Vein	Graffiti near the Boat
Exploration	Title line: These pictures show various projects undertaken by the DCC over the years.
Exploration	Title line: Brynlow Mine
Exploration	Clearing the leaf-filled gulley leading from the adit entrance
Exploration	An improvised winch for working in the narrow sloping vein clearing in-fill
Exploration	Timber shuttering to hold back material that had been tipped into the mine
Exploration	A small diameter shothole found and photographed at the end of the adit
Exploration	Title line: The Cobalt Mine
Exploration	Tom's Shaft conveniently located inside the DCC museum
Exploration	Looking up the temporary ladder in Tom's Shaft
Exploration	One of the smaller sections in the Cobalt Mine
Exploration	Shuttering in the Cobalt Mine where sand has slipped down from abandoned workings
Exploration	Title line: Doc Mine
Exploration	Bricking up the connection between the upper and lower parts to prevent inexperienced visitors getting into danger. The wall is now completely hidden by sediment.
Exploration	Building a new entrance on the old concrete slab over one of the shafts
Exploration	Starting to survey Doc Mine in 1973. Note the antiquated compass on a tripod.
Exploration	A record photograph showing the current state of the mine. Photographs are taken regularly showing how the mines change
Exploration	Title line: Engine Vein - Blue Shaft Passage
Exploration	Laying track below the bridge (which was not there at the time) to carry the infill to a dump
Exploration	Filling tubs at the blockage near Bear Pit
Exploration	Checking the stopping put in to prevent Bear Pit from spilling into the passage. This has since been removed as Bear Pit has now been cleared from top to bottom.
Exploration	A view of the stopping after clearing the main passage. The pipe took surface water away from the working area.
Exploration	The teleferique at the top of Blue Shaft - an abortive attempt to clear the shaft which was eventually cleared from below
Exploration	Using Malcolm's tub and railway to work below Balloon Shaft
Exploration	Tipping down Bear Pit (compare with the picture above when the stopping was still in place)
Exploration	The rebuilt ore chute at the bottom of Bear Pit
Exploration	Title line: Square Shaft
Exploration	Square Shaft was the key to exploring the Hough Level. It had to be cleared from top to bottom. However, at the bottom, the passage was found to be clear both ways.
Exploration	Putting the headframe in place. This dig preceded Bear Pit and a simple three-legged scaffolding frame was used.
Exploration	Setting the rings in place
Exploration	Looking up Square Shaft from below. One of the unexpected finds were some of the 19th century track still in situ below the shaft. These have now been placed vertically in the shaft.
Exploration	Title line: The Hough Level
Exploration	Filling tubs at the face in the Hough Level. Clearing the Hough Level was seen as essential to clearing Blue Shaft
Exploration	Track in the Hough Level near the entrance
Exploration	Finds included the remains of one of the boats used in the 1930s to carry visitors from Engine Vein to Brynlow.
Exploration	Graffiti near the boat. Modern graffiti is deplored but this gives the names of some of the visitors on the 1920s and 30s.
Exploration	A tub coming out of the entrance to the Hough Level
Exploration	The entrance seen from the main tip. The timber bridge meant that side-tipping tubs could be emptied easily.
Exploration	The tip. The mound to the left is the 19th century tip which was not disturbed by our work.
Exploration	For a short time, a diesel loco was used to pull out the trucks. It turned out to be too heavy and was removed.
Exploration	Title line: Bear Pit
Exploration	Starting the dig on the Bear Pit using a pneumatic drill to break through the concrete. A historic picture.
Exploration	One works, the rest watch.
Exploration	Laying the concrete around the new lid.
Exploration	General view of the Bear Pit dig in progress.
Exploration	Keith operating the petrol-driven winch
Exploration	Derek supervising at the shaft top. The buckets were raised to the next level for emptying
Exploration	Todge on the dumper waiting for a load
Exploration	On the headframe
Exploration	Title line: Ring Shaft
Exploration	The early stages of digging Ring Shaft. It's presence was known from underground
Exploration	Bringing in the rings that gave the shaft its name
Exploration	Rings in situ
Exploration	Descending Ring Shaft on an abseiling rope. The second rope is the guidewire for the buckets being raised
Exploration	Title line: Balloon Shaft
Exploration	Balloon Shaft after removing the old timber capping
Exploration	The new lid in place surrounded by shuttering and concrete being poured
Exploration	Moving the headframe from Ring Shaft to Balloon Shaft
Exploration	Digging Balloon Shaft using the same technique as at Bear Pit
Exploration	Title line: Field Shaft
Exploration	Improvised winch at Field Shaft where the field had collapsed into an old shaft that had probably been lined with timber
Exploration	Debating the best way to line the shaft. A traditional brick well system was used
Exploration	More up to date mechanisation using a capstan winch
Exploration	Steve shows that not all the visitors to the mines have two legs
Exploration	Title line: Sand Shaft and Stump Shaft
Exploration	Digging Sand Shaft where an old shaft had run into the Stump Shaft excavation
Exploration	Looking down into the heavily timbered Sand Shaft. This was eventually concreted at the rock head
Exploration	Stump Shaft in the later days when it had nearly been levelled back up to the field
Exploration	The last resting place of the headframe before it was dismantled.
Exploration	Title line: Temple Shaft
Exploration	The 'Temple' in Wood Mine that gave the name to Temple Shaft
Exploration	Temple Shaft was probably the most elaborate project of its kind with the excavated shaft 12 ft square and 15 ft deep
Exploration	At the bottom of Temple Shaft where the sand finished and the rock started. A concrete plug was installed
Exploration	One of the digging team
Exploration	Title line: Wood Mine
Exploration	The reopening of Wood Mine. This was the first project carried out by the Club
Exploration	Jock and Todge clearing the adit in Wood Mine in 1970
Exploration	Rebuilding the adit at Wood Mine. It had been blasted in in the 60s
Exploration	Exploring Blue Lake by dinghy
Exploration	Digging in Canal Turn, a backfilled passage
Exploration	The improvised winch and railway in Canal Turn
Exploration	The dig at Roadworks Shaft which drops below the passage for about 20 ft. The name came from the road sign visible in the picture
Exploration	Installing fencing around Roadworks Shaft
Exploration	Title line: West Mine
Exploration	Pouring concrete around the entrance lid in 1975
Exploration	A plaque recognising the work by members in reopening West Mine
Exploration	A rare photograph of a person coming through the recently opened way into West Mine in 1975. A steel ladder replaced the electron ladder
Exploration	On early trips, there was no bridge at Plank Shaft so we climbed around the shaft using a fixed rope
Exploration	Excavation of the entrance to West Mine in 18 Acre Field
Exploration	The completed entrance
Exploration	Installation of a frame over Plank Shaft to facilitate access down the 60 ft shaft
Exploration	The passage at the bottom of Plank Shaft awaiting exploration
Exploration	Title line: Finlow Mine
Exploration	Winter digging!
Exploration	The shaft top
Exploration	Exploring one of the narrow passages in Finlow Mine
Exploration	On the vein in Finlow Mine
Exploration	Title line: Other mines
Exploration	The level near Beacon Lodge. This passage is now concealed by the path
Exploration	The Canyon Opencast while being surveyed
Exploration	Rock Shaft near Stormy Point. Dug from top to near bottom
Exploration	Reeking Mine during surface surveying in the area
Hough Level	Title line: The Hough Level connects most of the mines with the main exception being West Mine. It was used first for drainage from Engine Vein and later to take ore from the eastern mines to the treatment works.
Hough Level	Title line: At Dickens Wood and up to Engine Vein
Hough Level	The day the Hough Level was opened
Hough Level	Digging out the entrance at Dickens Wood
Hough Level	The entrance from above
Hough Level	Digging at the face in the Hough Level
Hough Level	Filling the tub
Hough Level	Pushing the tub out of the entrance
Hough Level	The dumper used to pull out tubs
Hough Level	The loco when it was in use at Alderley Edge
Hough Level	Pushing by hand
Hough Level	Extending the tip
Hough Level	Emptying a tub
Hough Level	The tip in the early days
Hough Level	A section showing handpicked and enlarged passage
Hough Level	Looking up Square Shaft
Hough Level	The original passage at Square Shaft - a coffin level
Hough Level	Between Square Shaft and Engine Vein
Hough Level	Title line: Around Engine Vein
Hough Level	The bottom of Blue Shaft. The ladder is just visible on the left
Hough Level	Filling a tub at Bear Pit
Hough Level	Looking down Bear Pit to the ore chute
Hough Level	At the junction, a superior photograph by Paul Deakin
Hough Level	The junction leading (R) to Ring Shaft and (L) to Bear Pit
Hough Level	Curious clay formations in the wall which may have developed from the solution of salt
Hough Level	Ring Shaft ore chute
Hough Level	Ring Shaft ore chute
Hough Level	Title line: Engine Vein to Brynlow
Hough Level	1860s passage to Brynlow
Hough Level	The boat
Hough Level	Graffiti at the boat landing stage
Hough Level	In the canoe
Hough Level	In the bathtub boat in the Hough Level
Hough Level	Looking at blue formations in the Hough Level
Hough Level	Modern explorers in the wet section
Hough Level	Coming through to Brynlow
Hough Level	Near Brynlow - wet!
Hough Level	A group of explorers in the Hough Level in the 1930s
Hough Level	Boarding the boat at Brynlow
Hough Level	In a wet section
Hough Level	The boat at Brynlow
Hough Level	Title line: Brynlow to Wood Mine
Hough Level	The ore chute from the east side of the Brynlow Field Opencast
Hough Level	Shoring in the roof of the level near Brynlow. The fault wall is on the right
Hough Level	Dropping down from Field Shaft
Hough Level	Above the Hough Level at the junction where there were entrances from the Brynlow field.
Hough Level	At the Hough Level junction where the passage from Brynlow turns north towards the treatment works
Hough Level	Hough Level Junction dig
Hough Level	In the Hough Level Junction dig
Hough Level	At the southern end of the Hough Level under the Field with sleepers still in place
Mines	Title line: There are mines throughout the UK. These are just a few examples visited by DCC members. You will find more mining pictures in the . You will find more caving pictures in the Club albums.
Mines	Title line: Geevor Mine, Cornwall and Morwellham Quay, Devon - 2007
Mines	Victoria shaft
Mines	Descending by the 300 ft ladderway
Mines	In the adit No 3 level
Mines	Exit on the coast
Mines	Tramway to George and Charlotte Mine
Mines	The adit entrance
Mines	Underground waterwheel in George and Charlotte Mine
Mines	Quay at Morewellham
Mines	Title line: Nenthead, Co. Durham - 2006
Mines	Warrington Pete
Mines	On an improvised bridge (with a safety line)
Mines	Pete climbing out
Mines	View down a blocked shaft
Mines	Ore chute
Mines	Looking up a capped and ginged shaft
Mines	A winze divided into ore chute and climbing way
Mines	Where's the end?
Mines	Title line: Rookery Mine (Ashford Black Marble Mine), Derbyshire - 2006
Mines	In the entrance
Mines	One of the main passages with Pete, Ben and Doug
Mines	The Pillar in 'the arena'
Mines	Looking down a main passage. The red and white tape is presumably a safety measure.
Mines	Title line: West Mine - 5 June 2005
Mines	1. Waiting to descend Chain Shaft
Mines	2. Looking down Chain Shaft
Mines	3. After the wet passage
Mines	4. Crossing the traverse at Upper Springboard Cavern
Mines	5. Simon
Mines	6. Top of Laundry Chute
Mines	7. Climbing down the short shaft at H-planks
Mines	8. Crossing the new rope traverse (seen from below)
Mines	9. Crossing the new rope traverse (seen from below)
Mines	10. New rope traverse (top) and main passage (below)
Mines	11. Crossing the traverse at Manhattan on the way out
Mines	Title line: Golconda Mine - May 2008
Mines	Allan and Neil waiting to descend the main 400 ft shaft by winch.
Mines	Pete looking over one of the pumps still in place in the mine from the 1950 period.
Mines	Steve looks up at a miners' improvised staircase.
Mines	Neil poses beside a full tub of barites rich material waiting to be tipped down the chute into other tubs that were taken to the surface.
Mines	Writing on a ceiling in the Great Shack. The writing dates the working to the 1790s.
Mines	In the Great Shack where there is natural calcite deposited in the chamber. The Great Shack was a natural cave infilled with mud and galena.
Mines	Steve poses beside an older type of metal tub in a series of workings closer to the surface.
Mines	In the Forest Chamber where there are a number of timber props. There is a pool on the floor and an active stream comes into the chamber from above.
Mines	Title line: Snailbeach Mine, Shropshire - 2008
Mines	Preparing the ladders. This was a retro trip but with SRT for those who had forgotten their ladder technique.
Mines	In one of the main stopes. The floor is loose debris.
Mines	The NAMHO Chairman makes his way through a small connection between stopes.
Mines	Kelvin points out features of the vein on the 40 yard level.
Mines	Mining tools left at a bothy on the 40 yard level. The enamelled can still contains a liquid.
Mines	More tools. The two rods nearer to the right are copper-ended ramming rods.
Mines	Steve, Robert and Emma have a break near two wooden tubs that are still on the rails that lead towards Black Tom's Shaft.
Mines	Two rare relics to find underground: the screen would normally be found on the surface, and the item on the screen is a carpenter's measuring rod to work out the length of timber to cut.
Mines	Title line: Clive Mine, Shropshire - 2008
Mines	In the near surface workings east of the manhole entrance.
Mines	Typical of the narrower workings with the main fault wall on the right. Looking north west.
Mines	Crossing the traverse on the way in. The passage drops down here to the bottom level from where ore was taken to the hauling shaft, south of the main stope.
Mines	Some of the iron and copper banding in the rock on the hanging wall side of the main fault.
Mines	In the main passage showing an extensive area of iron banding.
Mines	Copper and iron staining in the wall.
Mines	Looking north west. The picture show not only the main fault on the right but also the second fault on the left which makes much of the open stoping into a wedge shape. This probably helps the stability of the roof.
Mines	Crossing the traverse on the return route out.
Mines	Title line: Box Hill Quarry - 2009
Mines	Approaching Jack's entrance
Mines	Jack's Entrance
Mines	The Black Horse with Robert giving the story of Captain
Mines	Crane in the Southern Region off Bridgegate Road
Mines	Graffiti
Mines	Blocks waiting to be taken out of the mine - Emma posing
Mines	Workings and a roadway with pillar - on the way to Coronation Cut
Mines	Inspecting blocks. Saw sharpening bench in the background
Mines	General view of a worked out roadway
Mines	Saw sharpening bench
Mines	More stacked slabs awaiting shipping to the surface. This was probably a winter workshop area.
Mines	The Penny Farthing
Mines	Boxing graffiti
Mines	Bryan poses beside a survey mark from the past
Mines	More boxing graffiti and tally marking
Mines	The walled off section of B12 that runs close to one of the Box Tunnel air shafts.
Mines	Graffiti recording the death of one of the miners: 'Richard Cousins was killed heare August 2nd 1876 Age 18 year'
Mines	A passage joins B12 from another area of working
Mines	Lunch break in B12 near the well
Mines	Looking down the well
Mines	The well in B12
Mines	The brick store and �
Mines	... some of the sculptures. Henry Moore doesn't need to worry about his reputation.
Mines	Approaching MOD territory
Mines	Going through the grille on the connecting passage to Spring and Tunnel
Mines	Don comes through the grille. You're never too old!
Mines	The steel door to Spring Quarry
Mines	Grille into Groundstone Quarry. Spring Quarry and Tunnel are to the right.
Mines	Grille into Groundstone Quarry.
Mines	Brewer's Drift, the air tunnel into Tunnel and Spring Quarry
Mines	The blocked inner end of Brewer's Drift
Mines	Starting out of Brewer's Drift with the incredible roof support.
Mines	And more supports. These are concrete pipes with steel reinforcing (not a steel 'forrest' as someone described it on UkCaving).
Mines	Another shot of the supported area
Mines	Emma at the outer end of Brewer's Drift where it rejoins Box proper.
Mines	Looking down the stairs at Ginny Ring climbing shaft
Mines	Tea break near Ginny Ring shafts
Mines	Typical worked out area, not cleaned up to be used as a roadway
Mines	Walling in the last worked area of Clift Works passage nearing the Clift Works entrance
Mines	Near the Clift Works Entrance
Mines	Clift Works Entrance and - no - you can't get out!
Mines	The odd experience of looking out of Clift Works entrance with the A4 in the distance
Mines	The Cathedral
Mines	The Cathedral
Mines	Looking into the Cathedral from the northern branch
Mines	Looking west in the Cathedral with the normal entrance in the distance
Mines	Crawling out of Back Door
Mines	It's a long slog up that hill after five hours underground
Mines	Title line: Nent Head - 2009
Mines	The entrance to Middlecleugh Level
Mines	Inside the mine where the passage divides
Mines	Kevin looking at the graffiti at a sump in the main level
Mines	Detail of the 1794 camel on the graffiti
Mines	Wooden rails in the floor of the passage
Mines	Steve has a rest at a niicely arched branch passage
Mines	Kelvin emerging from the level into a wider area where the shale has collapsed a bit. Red colouring comes from ochre.
Mines	The main level showing clearly how full of water it had been before the entrance was cleared.
Mines	Leaving Middlecleugh Level
Mines	Brewery Shaft in the trees from the track
Mines	Looking down Brewey Shaft
Mines	A person being lowered down the shaft passes the inset where the kibbles were off-loaded
Mines	Climbing down the debris at the bottom with the air receiver on the right
Mines	The air receiver at the bottom of the shaft showing the apparatus that separated compressed air from water
Mines	The remains of the generating set with two smaller Pelton wheels, one covered. The generator is on the left and the governor on the right.
Mines	The Pelton wheel that drove the Broom & Wade compressor (to the right)
Mines	Crank shaft and flywheel from the compressor
Mines	The work bench with damaged piston
Mines	An oil drum labelled 'For Rampgill Mill'
Mines	Two oil cans in the compressor room
Mines	The concrete lined water way leading to the waterwheel
Mines	The underground waterwheel in Brewery Shaft area
Mines	Remains of a wooden truck with metal wheels just beyond the waterwheel
Mines	The level heading into the mines with the wheels from a truckstacked against the wall
Mines	A passaing place for trucks heading to Brewery Shaft.
Mines	In the main Rampgill level with stals coming from the limestone beds
Mines	Matt looking at a metal ore-chute in Rampgill Level
Mines	Neatly walled passage in Rampgill
Mines	Remains of the horse gin in Scaleburn Level in Rampgill
Mines	Miners' stairs to an upper level in Rampgill
Mines	Emerging from the stairs into a higher sub-level
Mines	Graffiti in Scaleburn Vein
Mines	Ochre running down into the main passage in Scaleburn level.
Mottram mines	Title line: Copper and lead were mined at Mottram St Andrew, near Alderley Edge. The mines were never very successful but went down about 30 m on a mineralised fault.
Mottram mines	The old works from an early postcard. Water was a problem in the mines which partly explains the windpump over an old shaft.
Mottram mines	Sketch maps of Mottram St Andrew in relation to Alderley Edge
Open days	Title line: The DCC Open Days take place twice a year at Alderley Edge. These pictures show some of the visitors and the displays set up by the Club.
Open days	Title line: WOOD MINE
Open days	At the Wood Mine entrance in the early days
Open days	Wood Mine entrance before the adit was cleared
Open days	Young chemists
Open days	Approaching North End Chambers
Open days	Displays in Sand Cavern
Open days	Displays in Sand Cavern
Open days	Demonstrating rope techniques
Open days	Demonstrating rock drilling
Open days	Excavation at Timber Shaft
Open days	Excavation at Timber Shaft
Open days	Stands and shelters
Open days	A young family after the trip
Open days	More young chemists
Open days	Part of the Open Day team
Open days	Removing the cabling
Open days	Taking it easy
Open days	Evening social event - one of Lennie's stews
Open days	Kitting up a young visitor
Open days	Mineralisation being pointed out to a visitor
Open days	Rope techniques
Open days	Title line: ENGINE VEIN
Open days	At the stands in the Quarry
Open days	Demonstrating smelting
Open days	The displays
Open days	Smelting again - Steve using his smoke generator
Open days	The stand at Engine Vein
Open days	A group on the Bridge
Open days	Going down the stairs
Open days	Main chamber
Open days	Displays in Engine Vein main chamber
Open days	Pointing out rock formations
Open days	Happy miners - Paul (L), Harry and Steve taken by Julia
Open days	John kitted up to try some prusiking at the Engine Vein display tents
Open days	Roger demonstrates climbing a single rope
Open days	Title line: WOOD MINE - 2010
Open days	Sand Cavern. This group was kind enough to let me take pictures during their tour
Open days	This is what happens when the flash does not go off
Open days	Rabbit Caverns
Open days	Key Chamber
Open days	Key Chamber
Open days	In the middle of the mine
Open days	Green Waterfall
Open days	Outside after the trip
Open days	The dumper and rocket took centre stage (have a look at the Rocket page on this site for the full story)
Other mines	Title line: There are smaller mines on the Edge and this gallery has pictures of several of these.
Other mines	Title line: Mines on Glaze Hill
Other mines	Saddlebole - top entrance - a strange feature
Other mines	Saddlebole side entrance - now hidden following excavation
Other mines	Reeking Mine - named after the smelly mud inside
Other mines	Twin Shafts - probably more workings on Stormy Point Fault
Other mines	Title line: Mines on Stormy Point
Other mines	Rock Shaft
Other mines	Devil's Grave
Other mines	Devil's Grave - showing the grille
Other mines	Title line: Pillar and Doc Mines
Other mines	The way down to Pillar Mine
Other mines	Pillar Mine - with the pillar intact
Other mines	Pillar Mine as it is now
Other mines	Inside Pillar Mine
Other mines	Inside Pillar Mine
Other mines	From inside Doc Mine
Other mines	Doc Mine
Other mines	Inside Doc Mine
Other mines	Side gallery in Doc Mine
Other mines	Negotiating the water
Other mines	Title line: Mines in the centre of the site
Other mines	The 'Iron Gates'
Other mines	Opencast working near the Old Quarry
Other mines	Opencast working near the Old Quarry
Other mines	Trial near Great Quarry
Other mines	Trial near Great Quarry
Other mines	Beacon Lodge trial
Other mines	Church Quarry
Other mines	Church Quarry Mine
Other mines	Title line: Finlow Hill
Other mines	Finlow Hill digging
Other mines	In Finlow Hill
Other mines	Old timber in Finlow Hill
Other mines	Finlow Hill
Other mines	Title line: Brynlow Dell and Brynlow Field
Other mines	Digging Field Shaft
Other mines	Digging Field Shaft
Other mines	Field Shaft today
Other mines	Ladderway in Field Shaft
Other mines	Digging Temple Shaft
Other mines	Looking down Temple Shaft
Other mines	Shoring in Temple Shaft
Other mines	Temple Shaft from below
Other mines	Straight Mine
Other mines	Straight Mine near the end
Other mines	Cross Mine
Other mines	Lost Mine
Other mines	Title line: Scout Hole
Other mines	Looking down on Scout Hole entrance from above
Other mines	Scout Hole
Other mines	At the end of Scout Hole where it appears there was a link to the surface
Other mines	Scout Hole looking out
Other underground	Title line: Caves and mines for economic resources are not the only underground sites in the country. This page shows some of the others ranging from follies to military sites.
Other underground	Title line: Miscellaneous
Other underground	Stockport air raid shelters
Other underground	Catacombs in Malta
Other underground	Industrial tunnels
Other underground	Cave houses in Tunisia
Other underground	Title line: Underground government bunkers
Other underground	Hack Green, Cheshire
Other underground	Hack Green, Cheshire
Other underground	Warren Row. The power room.
Other underground	Warren Row. Main passage.
Other underground	Title line: The grounds of Lathom Hall in Lancashire - 1998
Other underground	The entrance shaft in the grounds.
Other underground	A brick lined and roofed section.
Other underground	Another section of culvert made of stone blocks on brick footings.
Other underground	A simpler form of construction with stone walls and a stone slabbed roof.
Other underground	Title line: The Williamson Tunnels in Liverpool - 2008
Other underground	Williamson tunnels (stone quarries) in Liverpool's Edge Hill.
Other underground	General view of one of the tunnels.
Other underground	Evidence of a derrick crane in the tunnel.
Other underground	A close-up of the fine stonework in the 'ballroom' shown in the first picture.
Other underground	Title line: Mellor Mill tailraces and other tunnels
Other underground	Centre wheel pit at Mellor
Other underground	The coal cellar near the central wheel pit
Other underground	The Waterloo wheel pit
Other underground	The central tunnel
Other underground	Blockage by demolition rubble in the central tunnel
Other underground	The western tunnel with natural roof
Other underground	The end of the tunnel with a fine rustic stone arch
Other underground	Looking the other way along the western tunnel
Other underground	The side tunnel into the western tunnel
Other underground	Opening to the river from the by-pass tunnel.
Other underground	Looking into the outlet tunnel
Other underground	Looking out from the silted tunnel
Other underground	The by-pass old tunnel from the Waterloo wheel to the river
Other underground	Another view of the by-pass tunnel
Other underground	The machinery tunnel to the mill
Other underground	The machinery tunnel to the workshops
Other underground	Inlet to the stream tunnel
Other underground	The stream tunnel
Other underground	One of the drainage conduits
Other underground	Cellars under the road/river bridge
Wood Mine	Title line: Wood Mine is probably the most-visited mine on the Edge and has a good variety of mining and geological features. It was mostly worked between about 1860 and 1875.
Wood Mine	Title line: Wood Mine photos
Wood Mine	Ceremony when Wood was reopened
Wood Mine	Wood mine manhole entrance
Wood Mine	Building the adit entrance
Wood Mine	Adit entrance
Wood Mine	Inside entrance
Wood Mine	At the end of the adit
Wood Mine	The spring in Spring Passage
Wood Mine	Sand Cavern
Wood Mine	Sand Cavern from the southern end
Wood Mine	Passage to Chain Steps
Wood Mine	Chain Steps
Wood Mine	Rabbit Caverns
Wood Mine	Rabbit Caverns
Wood Mine	Stope at the Blue Lake junction
Wood Mine	Blue Lake
Wood Mine	Old picture of Blue Lake
Wood Mine	The Hough Level in Wood Mine
Wood Mine	A candle in the lower levels
Wood Mine	Roadworks Shaft
Wood Mine	Roadworks shaft, flooded
Wood Mine	Digging a crawl
Wood Mine	Canal Turn
Wood Mine	Winch at Canal Turn
Wood Mine	Stump Chamber from Key Chamber
Wood Mine	Stump Chamber
Wood Mine	Wiggly Worm
Wood Mine	Crocodile Crawl
Wood Mine	Bridge at North End Chambers
Wood Mine	Upper North End Chambers
Wood Mine	North Boundary Fault
Wood Mine	Lower North End Chambers
Wood Mine	Reconstructed air door
Wood Mine	First Green Waterfall
Wood Mine	Second Green Waterfall
Wood Mine	Third Green Waterfall
Wood Mine	A backfilled passage
Wood Mine	Crawling
Wood Mine	Junction Shaft
Wood Mine	Junction Shaft
Wood Mine	Shaft in Sand Cavern
Wood Mine	Shaft in Sand Cavern
Wood Mine	A shothole in NE Chambers
Wood Mine	A shothole in Sand Cavern
Wood Mine	Title line: Link to Hough Level
Wood Mine	The 'Temple'
Wood Mine	Pillar and Post Series
Wood Mine	Pillar and Post Series
West Mine	Title line: West Mine is the largest mine on the Edge and was worked between 1858 and 1878. However, some parts appear to be a bit earlier and others later with clear signs of twentieth century workings.
West Mine	Title line: Old surface pictures of West Mine
West Mine	Original entrance
West Mine	Railway incline in 1920s
West Mine	Original entrance with gate intact
West Mine	Picture from 1923 of entrance with rough fence
West Mine	1943 with what appears to be some infilling
West Mine	Date unknown but probably late 50s as entrance is bricked, partly filled and has hole in centre
West Mine	From Coward's 1911 book
West Mine	Picture in Jim Lovelock's book. We think this is West Mine but it could be Wood Mine
West Mine	View in snow, same comment as previous picture that it could be Wood Mine.
West Mine	Date unknown but almost certainly 1960s
West Mine	1949, entrance bricked up. The Block End is visible on the right. Note square corner suggesting quarrying for stone.
West Mine	Probably 1960s again
West Mine	Earlier picture, may be 1940s
West Mine	1923
West Mine	Entrance bricked up, maybe 1960s, hole in wall
West Mine	1960s, fairly well infilled
West Mine	1960s, hole in center of wall
West Mine	1951
West Mine	1950s or 60s, bricked up
West Mine	1950s or 60s
West Mine	Block End in the 1950s
West Mine	Block End in the 1950s
West Mine	Block End in 1951
West Mine	Supposed to be West Mine but might be Engine Vein
West Mine	Above West Mine in 1957
West Mine	Title line: Before Plank Shaft
West Mine	New entrance in 18 acre field
West Mine	Inside the new entrance
West Mine	Inside the new entrance
West Mine	Inside the new entrance
West Mine	Shaft in the top level with rope rigged for abseiling
West Mine	Abseiling down the 1st shaft
West Mine	End of 'Roman Gallery'
West Mine	In the top passages
West Mine	Descending ladders
West Mine	The crawl near the entrance
West Mine	Inside the old entrance
West Mine	Main chamber in the 1950s
West Mine	The Main Chamber now
West Mine	Main chamber
West Mine	Main chamber - a practice rescue
West Mine	The pillar in Main Chamber
West Mine	Nigel's Nightmare
West Mine	... and again
West Mine	Look no hands!
West Mine	Second traverse
West Mine	Second traverse
West Mine	In the main chamber
West Mine	Main Chamber
West Mine	Traverse at Manhattan
West Mine	Below H Planks
West Mine	H Planks - so-called because there was once a plank between the other two making an H-shape
West Mine	H Planks
West Mine	Climbing down above H Planks
West Mine	Below the H Planks
West Mine	Traverse at H Planks
West Mine	Traverse at H Planks
West Mine	Dropping down to Canyon
West Mine	The Canyon
West Mine	Green River
West Mine	Green River
West Mine	Bottom of the railway incline
West Mine	Start of Twisted Pillar
West Mine	Twisted Pillar
West Mine	Climbing out of Twisted Pillar
West Mine	Above Twisted Pillar
West Mine	Old rope climb at Flight Deck
West Mine	New ladder at Flight Deck
West Mine	Flight Deck - the purple band is a fungus
West Mine	Flight Deck
West Mine	Sphinx Chamber
West Mine	Sphinx Chamber
West Mine	Above the Sphinx
West Mine	Squeeze in Sphinx Chamber
West Mine	... in
West Mine	... middle
West Mine	... out
West Mine	Title line: Plank Shaft and beyond
West Mine	Plank shaft
West Mine	Plank Shaft
West Mine	Headframe over Plank Shaft
West Mine	Levelling the headframe at Plank Shaft
West Mine	Passage at the bottom of Plank Shaft
West Mine	Looking up Plank Shaft
West Mine	The Great Arroyo
West Mine	The Great Arroyo
West Mine	Cottage floor ceiling
West Mine	Chain Shaft
West Mine	Chain Shaft
West Mine	Chain Shaft - preparing to abseil down to the bottom level
West Mine	Chain Shaft - abseiling down
West Mine	Looking down Chain Shaft
West Mine	The Lion
West Mine	Climbing the Lion
West Mine	Climbing the Lion
West Mine	Beyond Chain Shaft
West Mine	Joining the Road to Rome
West Mine	Laundry Chute
West Mine	At the end of the mine
West Mine	Shaft at the end of the mine
West Mine	Upper Springboard Cavern
West Mine	Upper Springboard Cavern
West Mine	Title line: Trip with novices in October 2009
West Mine	It's wet in some of the passages
West Mine	Looking up Doctor's Shaft with Tom on the ladder.
West Mine	Resting at the far end of the mine.

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