Moorfurlong Mine, Derbyshire

We drove over to Bradwell for 7:00pm and met Mat, Nikki, Jim, Scott and the usual Alt Tuesday lot (14 of us altogether I think) then drove in four cars up to the farmhouse by Moorfurlong Mine where they let us park in front of the house.
After changing into caving gear we walked down the fields opposite to the lidded shaft entrance which had no nut on the bolt so no spanner was needed. The ladder in the entrance shaft was about 15 metres long and recently installed by Nick Williams to replace an old one which fell to bits. Jim Alder was first down and wee all followed. At the bottom of the entrance shaft was a short, sloping, low passage leading to another shaft only about 3 or 4 metres high. This was rigged with an electron ladder to make it easier although it could have been free-climbed with care.
After another short, low passage we entered a passage which headed uphill and downhill. Going downhill first, we found a large chamber with a bedding plane roof and much old washing spoil with initials written in soot on the ceiling - probably by miners. I found a small continuing passage into another chamber with more spoil and found a hole going down 2 metres while Karen continued via a pool in a low crawl until she came to a loose ceiling and returned.
Returning towards the entrance, Jim and Karen climbed down a hole in the floor about 5 metres down and found a low crawl but very tight. When they climbed back up we passed the route to the entrance to the uphill section. This led to a very large chamber with a VERY large spoil heap taking up most of the floor. I started up this heap until it got smaller than while Karen and some others continued I dropped back down and investigated other parts of the chamber. There was yet another hole which Jim and Karen had climbed down and found some good decorations including cave pearls in a chamber.
By now it was getting late - about 9:00pm, so wee all climbed back up to the surface and after getting changed most went on to the Anchor at Tideswell while we headed for home and bed.