Saturday 24th September 2022

John Cooper and Pete Hann. One mix of cement taken in. Half used by Pete at the end and half by John further back. Could have used a lot more. Outward draught still. 1½ hours. John.

Tuesday 13th September 2022

John Cooper, Wayne Starsmore, Adrian Vanderplank and Jude Vanderplank. Took in a good mix of cement in 2 buckets. Adrian used 1½ building up walls at the end whilst John used ½ a bucket cementing rocks in the roof of the approach rift (except for the ones that fell out and were ably caught by Adrian!). 1½ hours. John.

Plan showing direction of Photos below. Plan by AV

Photo 707 by AV

Photo 712 by AV

Photo 718 by AV

Saturday 10th September 2022

John Cooper, Adrian Vanderplank and Jude Vanderplank. Drill and capping kit taken down. Initially John removed a few small rocks from the end then Adrian capped a bigger one. These were deposited at the little chamber stacking space. Jude then went to the face and put a load of clatch behind Pete’s wall so he could build it higher. Good outward draught. 2 hours. John.

Saturday 3rd September 2022

John Cooper, Pete Hann, Adrian Vanderplank and Jude Vanderplank. Full mix of cement taken down in 3 buckets. Used by Pete building retaining walls at the dig face. Nice outward draught still. Dig face now at least 4m below bottom survey station. 1½ hours. John.

Thursday 1st September 2022

Richard Carey, John Cooper, Wayne Starsmore, Mike Thomas, Adrian Vanderplank and Jude Vanderplank. The 19 loads hauled from the bottom to the bottom stacking space became 18 when hauled from there to the Tunnel, remained at that when hauled from the Tunnel to the bottom of the entrance shaft but became 10 rather heavier ones when hauled to the surface. 3 hours. John.