Dudley Caving Club Trip Reports & News

Due to the Forest of Dean Symposium being cancelled we moved our venue to South Wales to continue the Brickworks Dig. This was a very well a...

The Dig Weekend at the Brickworks Dig was so popular that the exercise needed some careful planning. It was decided that while one team was...

The dig was last visited in February when Graham and John fitted the entrance gate frame and started to ‘brick in’ the gaps around the sides...

Graham constructs a gate for the dig The Team: Roger Bryan, Keith Edwards, Brendan Marris, Graham Smith & John Smith.

After a few weeks of dry weather, and now with a new set of beefy pumps, the prospects looked good for a productive weekends digging. By Thu...

Whilst in South Wales this weekend I decided to lift off the tin lid to the Brickworks Dig and venture down to see what state things were in...

We have started to back-fill some of the passage as well as removing the railway track from the main sump pool and partially filled it in. T...

A busy weekend.  On the Saturday we replaced two of the wheels on the truck, pumped out the cave, removed the stacked bags from the cross-r...

The smallest dig team ever (KeEd, BrMa & DeRo) cleared out the infill which had slumped in from the cross-rift over the Winter, install...

At the dig face nearly all of the in-fill from the 'lost' roof of the passage had slumped in revealing back space in the ceiling. A...

Weekend 12/13th August We now have 150, 13" x 30" sand bags - each one holds more than a bucket full. On Saturday we filled 100 ...

A very successful weekend. On Saturday we were able to remove the infill which had fallen out of the cross rift and make a little forward p...

The water slightly higher than 'normal level'.  Pumping took nearly all day.  When we got to the bottom of the extension passage i...

The water was at 'normal level' with only a foot of so of water in the extension passage.  Pumping took less than an hour.  It was f...

We started pumping operations at 12:45 and the pumping went very well indeed. Everything performed as we had predicted/hoped for and we we...

A large dig team and probably a record for the amount of infill removed - 140 buckets on the Saturday and 120 buckets on the Sunday, but nev...

More progress has been made with about 10 feet of passage added to the system and the first "air space" discovered in the whole 19...

Another very successful digging weekend. On Saturday morning we constructed a single-bucket railway over the pool and in the afternoon we r...

During the most successful digging weekend ever another ten feet of passage was added to the system.  See the  Club Dig page  for details....

One of the most successful dig weekends ever.  Much of the weekend was spent scaffolding and stabilising the area before the final right t...