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ICLOK
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#21

I finally got round to reading that.... very good indeed. 🙂

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh Creeper!!!!!

sougher
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#22

Iclok - You're back then! It's been very quiet without you!

Moorebooks
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#23

"the Cave Explorers" by Jim Eyre - it is one of the funniest books I have ever read and shows the true spirit of adventure. The book was taken off the shelves due to a court case, which becomes obvious when you read it. I discovered by accident the book ended up unbound in the states wwhere it has since been bound and i have obtained copies of. Jim was a real characther and had great respect for the early mine explorers.

Just seen soughers comments - need I say moore!!

cheers

Mike

Cornish Pixie
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My favourite book has to be the one I am currently writing!!! :ohmygod:

Den heb davaz a gollaz i dir

JohnnearCfon
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Although only partly on topic, my favourite book is, without any doubt, Railway Adventure by Tom Rolt. I have read that book so many times over the last 40 years! It is so well written. When I first read it it was in my local library, adult section. I was too young to be normally allowed in that section but was given permission so long as I only looked at the railway books section!

It is the story of the Talyllyn Railway, from it's inception up to and including the first two years of preservation. Tom Rolt was general manager for those two years and was instrumental in setting it up. There is, naturally, some mention of the Bryn Eglwys Slate Quarry.

rhychydwr
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I enjoyed reading sougher's account. You must write a book about you caving experiences. Bound to be a winner.

Cutting coal in my spare time.

Moorebooks
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16 years ago

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"Cornish Pixie" wrote:
My favourite book has to be the one I am currently writing!!! :ohmygod:

Gosh are you having a sober interlude

:tongue:

😉 😉 😉

Cornish Pixie
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#28

You saucy b****r Mike Moore 😉

Actually, I find I write better after a little bevvie or two!!! 😞

Den heb davaz a gollaz i dir

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16 years ago

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:offtopic: My favourite is Lord of the RIngs - for the bit about Moria, now a 40 mile (?) wide "delving" has got to be good! I like to think of Oakeley as Moria, with the Lake at one end (Cwmorthin) and the vast halls illuminated by shafts of light at the other (Oakeley/Welsh Slate).

Cheers

Grahami

The map is the territory - especially in chain scale.

stevem
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"grahami" wrote:
:offtopic: My favourite is Lord of the RIngs - for the bit about Moria, now a 40 mile (?) wide "delving" has got to be good! I like to think of Oakeley as Moria, with the Lake at one end (Cwmorthin) and the vast halls illuminated by shafts of light at the other (Oakeley/Welsh Slate).

Cheers

Grahami

Speak (to a) Friend and Enter 🙂

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screws up your day and may their arms be too short to scratch.

Moorebooks
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16 years ago

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"Cornish Pixie" wrote:
You saucy b****r Mike Moore 😉

Actually, I find I write better after a little bevvie or two!!! 😞

many a tale can be told!!

:lol:

Cornish Pixie
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16 years ago

#32

Oh no they can't!!! 😮

Den heb davaz a gollaz i dir

ICLOK
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16 years ago

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John, I agree re the Rolt book, for me my non mining factual book would be by the same author "Red for Danger" which has never been bettered... especially the chapter on Blow Ups and Breakdowns... Fiction would be the Complete Ghost stories of M.R.James. 🙂

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh Creeper!!!!!

Tamarmole
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16 years ago

#34

Suddenly struck me - no ones mentioned Agricola.

patch
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For me "Two Centuries of Industrial Welfare. The London Lead Company 1692-1905" by Arthur Raistrick, 1938 Reprinted 1988.
Just read and marvel that a company in the heat of the industrial revolution could be so benevolent and foresighted.
They provided houses, laundries, schools, doctors, nurses further education classes, shops, reading rooms, libraries, a sort of co-operative society long before they were even thought of, cheap corn, gardening societies, etc etc.

They planted their own woods to obtain quality timber for mines, funded road improvements, funded canal building invested heavily in improving smelting techniques and above all paid very fair wages in the Northern Pennines.

A totally different company to the ones operating coal mines just a few miles away.

Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the damn thing yourself

Mr.C
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16 years ago

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Sougher - thank you so much for that reply.
I'm afraid I've printed it out & popped it into my copy of The Game Goes On - hope you don't mind too much!
I only met Jim properly once, when he proceeded to take the p (pleasantly) out of me & the lecture I'd just delivered.
Later the same day, he was responsible for my best friends wife becoming pregnant!!
Jim was supposed to deliver an after dinner speech but was rather "tired & emotional". Rather than listen to him witter on, they returned to their tent & well with nothing else to do.....
They've a grand little lad of 8 now 😉
BTW If you havn't time for that book, why not a series of articles for say Descent?

We inhabit an island made of coal, surrounded by a sea full of fish. How can we go wrong.......

royfellows
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16 years ago

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"JohnnearCfon" wrote:
Although only partly on topic, my favourite book is, without any doubt, Railway Adventure by Tom Rolt. I have read that book so many times over the last 40 years! It is so well written. When I first read it it was in my local library, adult section. I was too young to be normally allowed in that section but was given permission so long as I only looked at the railway books section!

It is the story of the Talyllyn Railway, from it's inception up to and including the first two years of preservation. Tom Rolt was general manager for those two years and was instrumental in setting it up. There is, naturally, some mention of the Bryn Eglwys Slate Quarry.

I met him once when I was young.
If memory is serving me correct he lived in the bungalow opposite the station, across the rails. He still had his Alvis and when he started it up the exhaust fell off!
This would be about 1965

My avatar is a poor likeness.

davel
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16 years ago

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"Moorebooks" wrote:

"the Cave Explorers" by Jim Eyre - it is one of the funniest books I have ever read ...

As it happens, Mike, you sold a copy of that to me at at a BCRA Conference quite some years back. I still dip into it from time to time.

My favourite underground book (in which, as it happens, Jim Eyre was involved) is Underground Adventure, by A Gemmell and J O Myers, 1952. It's an account of the exploration of some of the major Yorkshire potholes in the period immediately after WW2. It's the book that inspired me and a couple of friends to sort our own caving gear and explore some of the local north Wales caves in the very early '60s. (Which is when the photo I use for my avatar was taken.)

Dave

royfellows
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16 years ago

#39

Hey, We’re all giving our ages away here!

My avatar is a poor likeness.

davel
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#40

Yeah ... but I'm not (quite) as old as you! 🙂

Dave