Posts by Peter Burgess

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Author	Message
Topic: Anything interesting around Dartmoor?
Peter Burgess	Forum: General Chat Posted: 09/11/2018 12:58:15 Subject: Anything interesting around Dartmoor? [quote="Chalcocite"]You're lucky to be able to get onto druids workings. I've heard the owner is a right miserable ******! The speleologists get a bit funny too when you go in poking aroun
Topic: Interesting video
Peter Burgess	Forum: General Chat Posted: 01/11/2018 13:20:43 Subject: Interesting video https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/last-of-the-navvies-irishman-who-dug-all-night-tube-line-1.2762215 Article that mentions miners getting the bends and a few fatal accidents.
Topic: Pedantry corner: Festiniog or Ffestiniog?
Peter Burgess	Forum: General Chat Posted: 28/10/2018 18:10:00 Subject: Pedantry corner: Festiniog or Ffestiniog? Ask the railway what they would use and simply go with that. If anyone complains refer them to the railway.
Topic: Penarth Odd Metal work; any ideas
Peter Burgess	Forum: North Wales Posted: 26/10/2018 12:15:46 Subject: Penarth Odd Metal work; any ideas Like a lot of this sort of thing, one day someone will see one in context and all the light bulbs will light up.
Topic: Tywarnhayle area.
Peter Burgess	Forum: General Chat Posted: 24/10/2018 14:05:33 Subject: Tywarnhayle area. I can just about remember how we found mines to visit before the internet. We searched books like Dines, or other more popular mining histories and managed to find places somehow. We got in touch with
Topic: Hi from Shropshire,
Peter Burgess	Forum: New recruits! Posted: 11/09/2018 22:02:44 Subject: Hi from Shropshire, Big Pit is a very well presented "show" mine, and to be able to look around a coal mine is a rare opportunity these days. I would happily visit it again. Go while the guides are still retired miners w
Topic: Can Abandoned Mines Heat our Future?
Peter Burgess	Forum: Geology & Mining Posted: 07/08/2018 09:22:59 Subject: Can Abandoned Mines Heat our Future? I forgot about the flat earthers. Apparently they have expressed delight that their numbers are on the increase around the globe.
Topic: Can Abandoned Mines Heat our Future?
Peter Burgess	Forum: Geology & Mining Posted: 06/08/2018 17:57:28 Subject: Can Abandoned Mines Heat our Future? [quote="ChrisJC"][quote="Praada"]You know what boils my blood, we are an island surrounded by water and the government keeps shunning attempts at researching and testing hydroelectric generators in th
Topic: Old Village of East Hetton
Peter Burgess	Forum: New recruits! Posted: 26/07/2018 19:22:20 Subject: Old Village of East Hetton There is a Welsh equivalent, which IS free! http://newspapers.library.wales/
Topic: Old Village of East Hetton
Peter Burgess	Forum: New recruits! Posted: 26/07/2018 19:19:44 Subject: Old Village of East Hetton The British Newspaper Archive is a good source of local tittle tattle. Things like applications for licences, prosecutions of those who get caught drinking out of hours, that sort of thing.
Topic: Thievery at Nenthead
Peter Burgess	Forum: North West England Posted: 25/07/2018 09:02:00 Subject: Thievery at Nenthead Oh- I sent it to myself! Resent to Roy :)
Topic: Thievery at Nenthead
Peter Burgess	Forum: North West England Posted: 25/07/2018 09:00:00 Subject: Thievery at Nenthead Sorry - I thought it had gone - I'll check. I didn't want to start a public argument about the points I was making until you had thought it over.
Topic: Thievery at Nenthead
Peter Burgess	Forum: North West England Posted: 24/07/2018 12:06:25 Subject: Thievery at Nenthead Nothing sinister - I'll message you :-)
Topic: Thievery at Nenthead
Peter Burgess	Forum: North West England Posted: 24/07/2018 11:36:32 Subject: Thievery at Nenthead I fully sympathise Roy. But I can't help but see how your policy as stated could backfire. Which would be an immense shame.
Topic: Hidden Earth 2018
Peter Burgess	Forum: General Chat Posted: 22/07/2018 23:11:12 Subject: Hidden Earth 2018 I wasn't thinking of you Mike! Sorry if you thought I was.
Topic: Hidden Earth 2018
Peter Burgess	Forum: General Chat Posted: 22/07/2018 19:56:02 Subject: Hidden Earth 2018 Indeed Droid. Those that feel bad about coming south so many times need to step up to the plate and help sort it out. I fully sympathise with those that are left to sort things out by them
Topic: Hi I'm Jacob I'm new can someone help :)
Peter Burgess	Forum: South Wales Posted: 22/07/2018 14:16:53 Subject: Hi I'm Jacob I'm new can someone help :) Isn't there a line in "Hitchhiker" - something like "A message to all the undeveloped civilisations out there - the clue is in banging the rocks together". Looks like you are on the way!
Topic: Llanberis near miss
Peter Burgess	Forum: North Wales Posted: 11/07/2018 09:23:38 Subject: Llanberis near miss https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-wales-44770345/cliff-jumping-lucky-escape-for-boys-after-llanberis-rock-fall
Topic: Peter Hay RIP
Peter Burgess	Forum: General Chat Posted: 21/06/2018 11:46:30 Subject: Peter Hay RIP I met Peter regularly on Sub Brit field trips in the 1980s and 90s. These events were always enlivened by his presence.
Topic: Members' Journal - Peter Burgess
Peter Burgess	Forum: Member Journals Posted: 19/06/2018 19:23:56 Subject: Members' Journal - Peter Burgess Results of the radiocarbon dating are now published: https://darknessbelow.co.uk/news-chaldon-quarries-surrey-radiocarbon-dating-results/ Intriguingly, the samples suggest that t
Topic: NAMHO Conference 2018
Peter Burgess	Forum: Events Posted: 19/06/2018 18:28:24 Subject: NAMHO Conference 2018 My conference lecture review here: https://darknessbelow.co.uk/namho-2018-lecture-review/
Topic: NAMHO Conference 2018
Peter Burgess	Forum: Events Posted: 05/06/2018 09:36:15 Subject: NAMHO Conference 2018 Nobody checked or collected the faddle tickets, so you could have come in and nobody would have noticed. Not that this information is of any use to you now, Roy!
Topic: NAMHO Conference 2018
Peter Burgess	Forum: Events Posted: 16/05/2018 15:10:48 Subject: NAMHO Conference 2018 Thanks Alex. I suppose I am too used to getting confirmation emails for everything I buy, even down to phone top ups.
Topic: NAMHO Conference 2018
Peter Burgess	Forum: Events Posted: 16/05/2018 14:01:33 Subject: NAMHO Conference 2018 I paid by transfer at the end of February. I have never received anything to confirm the booking, no detailed joining instructions, nothing at all. Maybe I am a delegate. Maybe I am not. Maybe I will
Topic: Western Cyffty via Parc. Anyone been lately?
Peter Burgess	Forum: North Wales Posted: 09/05/2018 18:20:00 Subject: Western Cyffty via Parc. Anyone been lately? I'd just tell you to sod off, Roy. :lol:
Topic: Damage at Carrs Mine at Nenthead
Peter Burgess	Forum: North West England Posted: 08/05/2018 20:57:06 Subject: Damage at Carrs Mine at Nenthead It's the result of a perverse form of self-entitlement that some people have. It gets worse as each year passes.
Topic: Mine water clean up.
Peter Burgess	Forum: Mid Wales Posted: 08/05/2018 16:51:04 Subject: Mine water clean up. Roy, you are a self-confessed weirdo - you don't have to explain anything! That's why we all love you.;D
Topic: Geevor deep adit
Peter Burgess	Forum: South West England Posted: 24/04/2018 22:20:00 Subject: Geevor deep adit Not being a local explorer, I cannot comment on the rights and wrongs of the situation. But it never ceases to disappoint me every time something like this happens that all the apologists for petty cr
Topic: Fatality at Colley Hill Mine, 1905
Peter Burgess	Forum: South East England Posted: 31/03/2018 20:03:08 Subject: Fatality at Colley Hill Mine, 1905 https://www.aditnow.co.uk/documents/Colley-Hill-Hearthstone-Mine-Sandstone-Mine/Surrey-Mirror-1905-Nov-11-cols-1-and-2.pdf
Topic: A Narrow Escape
Peter Burgess	Forum: General Chat Posted: 31/03/2018 08:52:47 Subject: A Narrow Escape Yes that would be a workable solution. I'll give it a try later I hope.
Topic: A Narrow Escape
Peter Burgess	Forum: General Chat Posted: 28/03/2018 18:08:03 Subject: A Narrow Escape [quote="RAMPAGE"][quote="Peter Burgess"]In a similar vein: Royal Cornwall Gazette - 3rd May 1850 Accident - Whilst William Cosby was at work in the shaft at Balleswidden mine, on
Topic: A Narrow Escape
Peter Burgess	Forum: General Chat Posted: 28/03/2018 14:40:00 Subject: A Narrow Escape [quote="Roy Morton"]Mining is dangerous profession with new hazards everyday especially when breaking ground. By the same token, there are many tales of interest both practical and scientific, th
Topic: A Narrow Escape
Peter Burgess	Forum: General Chat Posted: 28/03/2018 11:17:34 Subject: A Narrow Escape In a similar vein: Royal Cornwall Gazette - 3rd May 1850 Accident - Whilst William Cosby was at work in the shaft at Balleswidden mine, on the 29th ult., a piece of half timber,
Topic: A Narrow Escape
Peter Burgess	Forum: General Chat Posted: 28/03/2018 10:21:17 Subject: A Narrow Escape The British Newspaper Archive is a good place for accounts of mining accidents, but generally only when there are unfortunate fatalities. Look for the full reporting of inquests. Warning - can contain
Topic: NAMHO Conference Proceedings 2015-2018
Peter Burgess	Forum: General Chat Posted: 14/03/2018 18:42:30 Subject: NAMHO Conference Proceedings 2015-2018 2017. Unlikely. I neither have much material to use, nor the time to compile it. It's unlikely anyone else in the society will pick it up. I have most of the PowerPoint presentations used, but the mos
Topic: Gary Parrott contact wanted
Peter Burgess	Forum: General Chat Posted: 12/03/2018 22:09:13 Subject: Gary Parrott contact wanted Private message sent.
Topic: Gary Parrott contact wanted
Peter Burgess	Forum: General Chat Posted: 12/03/2018 22:06:09 Subject: Gary Parrott contact wanted Hi Gary I'll send a message to explain. The DarknessBelow website was asked by someone to put them in contact with you.
Topic: Gary Parrott contact wanted
Peter Burgess	Forum: General Chat Posted: 12/03/2018 16:16:49 Subject: Gary Parrott contact wanted Hi - I have received an email from someone in Canada trying to contact Gary Parrott, "former miner at Geevor". Can anyone help please?
Topic: Cave surveys from the Yorkshire Dales
Peter Burgess	Forum: For Sale! (and wanted / for swap) Posted: 23/02/2018 19:38:54 Subject: Cave surveys from the Yorkshire Dales Absolutely Mike - at the end of the day, if advertising charges are too high, we all end up paying. I made a similar judgement when using a photo for which a licence fee was required. The charge added
Topic: Cave surveys from the Yorkshire Dales
Peter Burgess	Forum: For Sale! (and wanted / for swap) Posted: 23/02/2018 19:08:40 Subject: Cave surveys from the Yorkshire Dales Do you pay for the instructor entries on the New to Caving site, Pete? If so, then perhaps you have a point, of sorts.
Topic: Cave surveys from the Yorkshire Dales
Peter Burgess	Forum: For Sale! (and wanted / for swap) Posted: 23/02/2018 18:44:01 Subject: Cave surveys from the Yorkshire Dales There are other relevant websites that provide a free facility provided you don't take the ****. This site being the obvious one! I hope we all recognise that Mike provides an extremely useful service
Topic: Rhosydd Slate Quarry
Peter Burgess	Forum: For Sale! (and wanted / for swap) Posted: 23/02/2018 16:56:59 Subject: Rhosydd Slate Quarry Or post a link to this http://darknessbelow.co.uk/rhosydd-slate-quarry-a-classic-book-republished/
Topic: Rhosydd Slate Quarry
Peter Burgess	Forum: For Sale! (and wanted / for swap) Posted: 30/01/2018 08:14:01 Subject: Rhosydd Slate Quarry Subterranea regularly has news and articles about stuff other than wiggly tin bunkers.
Topic: Rhosydd Slate Quarry
Peter Burgess	Forum: For Sale! (and wanted / for swap) Posted: 29/01/2018 14:54:35 Subject: Rhosydd Slate Quarry Ask if you can get a review in Subterranea, and have you tried the various relevant Facebook groups?
Topic: UK bat population doing OK
Peter Burgess	Forum: Exploration Chat Posted: 25/01/2018 19:02:42 Subject: UK bat population doing OK http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science_and_environment Good news to read today.
Topic: Rhosydd Slate Quarry
Peter Burgess	Forum: For Sale! (and wanted / for swap) Posted: 22/01/2018 16:48:20 Subject: Rhosydd Slate Quarry Don't. Feed. The. Troll.
Topic: Rhosydd Slate Quarry
Peter Burgess	Forum: For Sale! (and wanted / for swap) Posted: 22/01/2018 14:30:51 Subject: Rhosydd Slate Quarry The format of the entire book is different due to the different page size. Simple - what are the last three words on page 49?
Topic: Rhosydd Slate Quarry
Peter Burgess	Forum: For Sale! (and wanted / for swap) Posted: 22/01/2018 12:28:22 Subject: Rhosydd Slate Quarry Then its a different book with the same title. Or a plagiarised copy. If the latter then shame on the person who thought it a clever idea to either print it, or involve a third party in their stupid w
Topic: Rhosydd Slate Quarry
Peter Burgess	Forum: For Sale! (and wanted / for swap) Posted: 22/01/2018 11:07:19 Subject: Rhosydd Slate Quarry [quote="james1"]Popped into Cwmparc on my way back to Wales. The local caving group were meeting in the Parc Hotel. I picked up the latest copy of the Rhosydd book. It was hard bound in red cloth wi
Topic: Cissbury Flint Mine, Sussex
Peter Burgess	Forum: South East England Posted: 21/01/2018 13:45:01 Subject: Cissbury Flint Mine, Sussex [quote="davetidza"]it's the Oxbow book I have somewhere (new glasses due next week so I should be able to find it!!!) As far as dating goes pre-1960 carbon dates if they were obtained by Pull would ha

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