Karen and I drove to the car park next to The Wizard Pub in Alderley Edge followed by Mark Silo in his car on a rare underground. We were due to meet Nigel Dibben of the Derbyshire CC at 11:00. Here we met Dave Phillips followed by Mike Moore, Mat and Nikki Adlam-Styles, Dan Leyden with Ashley Richardson. We all got changed into our caving gear and waited for Simon Wynne who was also planning to come on the trip along with his daughter Sian and also giving Rich Smith a lift.
By 11:15 we decided to move onto the small “museum” run by the DCC in the building next to the pub shared with a Tea Room as it was a cold day. Luckily the missing three arrived at 11:30 and after chivvying them along, we were following Nigel along the road and into the woods passing the adit into Wood Mine and then across a large field to a shaft in one corner surrounded by a fence.
Nigel soon had the lid open and was demonstrating the draught blowing up the shaft by dropping bits of grass!
We clambered down the short ladder and grouped up just inside the large passage at midday. This shaft was dug in recent times as the old entrance was on another landowner's land and had collapsed.
We had an enjoyable trip around the mine (Karen and had been on a trip before with some “Alt Tuesday” members and Keith).
We were back on the surface at 15:30 and were soon changed back out of underground gear. As the tea shop was very busy we just headed back towards Parsley Hay and collect our gear from the OCC cottage.
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