One of my first trips, with friends, while I was still at school. Not much had changed when I returned almost thirty years later, though the sump looked very different. Still a place of mystery, intrigue and potential. Back in the 1960s I was told that out of work miners from the closing of Millclose mine went prospecting in Jugholes and emerged on the Via Gellia (from the level by the road intersected by a quarry). Whether this was one, long underground trip, a reference to prospecting over that entire area or a story keep cavers busy and out of the way (it came from working miners) I do not know. Other stories, from reliable sources - Jugholes connects, or did with Oxclose mine, there are large caverns accessed from the bottom of Hut shaft, there was a Jugholes sough, there is another entrance to Jugholes, apart from the well known ones. Like many places in the Matlock area with stories of connections, sometimes dismissed as impossible, recent research and some "pushing" has been productive, in terms of validating the stories and making discoveries.