Saturday 9th July 2022

John Cooper, Pete Hann, Adrian Vanderplank and Jude Vanderplank. Capping kit taken to bottom of entrance shaft “Just in case”. One mix of cement taken down and used to build spoil retaining wall. Long drill bit finally retrieved, looks to be still useable. With Jude at bottom and Pete just above her I built up the retaining wall to hold the clatch with Adrian passing the cement down to me as required (limited working space). Before coming out I went down and using a sling looped round the flake in the floor was able to pull it out and then break it up into rocks which were sent up the Adrian and Pete (Jude had gone out). I then left with the empty cement buckets whilst Adrian and Pete did a bit more rock shifting. Clatch and rock moved from very bottom but needs moving on up. 2½ hours. John.