August BH week visit by PDMHS and others. 1974 (photo)

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John Lawson
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9 years ago

i can identify a few more of the group.
In front of Eric, we have Mavis Luff, behind Eric, Bob Guthrie,David Politt, 3 ANs, then Hilda, Mike Luff, Peter Nears,3 ANs and at the far end Fred Thornton, and Axel Chatburn.
I assume that Hilda's husband John is on the photo as well, but I cannot recognise him. Also I guess John McNeil should be there as well?

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staffordshirechina
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9 years ago

Some errors there John.
There are no Luffs in the photo.

Left to Right:
Axel Chatburn, David (Fred) Thornton, Me (Les Riley), Geoff Holt, Dave Sergeant, ?, ?, Hilda, George Fletcher (with fag), Terry Worthington (with pick), Dave Weston, Dave Pollitt, Bob Guthrie, Eric, ?.

John Lawson
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Fraud I disagree, as I stated Mavis is in front of Eric , and Mike is between Peter Nears, and Hilda.
No point in a large disagreement, but I wonder why you are so emphatic that they were no Luffs in the photo.
Mike and Mavis almost always accompanied HMP on his visits North, in fact I cannot remember an exception to this.

davetidza
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9 years ago

Thoroughly agree with Les - there are no Luffs on this photo.

exspelio
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9 years ago

:lol::lol:, Ok, so its a Luff-less photo, so i'm in love with the dog--

Always remember, nature is in charge, get it wrong and it is you who suffers!.

Jim MacPherson
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9 years ago

I know this might be a bit radical but Mike and Mavis could be asked. As regards the labrador, did Bob and Jessie have an old hound, I vaguely recall some beastie at their house, though that's quite a long time ago. Another query about Scraithole, did someone unearth a large lump of galena when they moved their car at some meet, could be some more false recovered memory syndrome. Maybe an, as yet, unknown side-effect of radon? gulp!!

staffordshirechina
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9 years ago

They were on the week but not the photo.
Having known both for 40+ years, I do recognise ( or not) a Luff!

Jim, I think the dog was Bob's.

Les

Jim MacPherson
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9 years ago

Thanks Les,

Said dog also appears on a mugshot photo outside the cottage at Spartylea although seems much more interested in someone other than Bob.

My brother found a photo of Newburgh Level on this curious website;

http://www.urbexforums.com/showthread.php/17910-Hanging-Flat-Polystyrene-Mine

And it's same level as Harry's photo, from their comments our digging out wasn't a complete success.

Another recollection of Scraithhole was finding a tennis ball size lump of barytes which I took out as a great prize but I think someone liberated it as I got changed, as least I never saw it again.

Jim MacPherson
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9 years ago

To complete the picture I'm fairly sure the lab was called Jake and I've got some more photos above and below ground at Scraithole/Barneycraig to upload when I've finished annotating them