Shropshire Caving and Mining Club
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| Contact: | Secretary | Year formed: 1961 | |||||||||||
| Email: | scmc.secretary [at] shropshirecmc.org.uk | Membership: 72 | |||||||||||
| Website: | https://www.shropshirecmc.org.uk | ||||||||||||
| Facebook: | https://facebook.com/groups/www.shropshirecmc.org.uk/ | ||||||||||||
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| Area of interest: | Shropshire, Mid and North Wales, Northern Pennines, the rest of the UK and the world. | ||||||||||||
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| Classes of membership: | For details see the SCMC web page: Â Â www.shropshirecmc.org.uk/about_us.html |
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| Publications: | Quarterly Newsletter, Annual Journal and occasional Accounts. | ||||||||||||
| Archive collection: | Members only. | ||||||||||||
| Artefact collection: | Not kept by club. | ||||||||||||
| Sites owned, leased, licensed or access controlled: |
Clive, Huglith, Snailbeach and Bergam mines in Shropshire. | ||||||||||||
| Current projects: | Survey and gazetteer of Shropshire sites. Preservation work on Cothercott barytes mill and South Shropshire aerial ropeways. | ||||||||||||
| Publicity: | See internet sites | ||||||||||||
| Services: | Library, BCA membership, skills practise. | ||||||||||||
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Above: Club chair inspecting the top of the 130m deep Chapel Shaft, plus MineCam. Left: Members surveying the main stope at the 112 yard level, Snailbeach lead mine. The whole mine is flooded below here. |
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Last updated: 15/11/2021 |
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