Box Freestone Mine. Wiltshire 15/9/07

[pob]

Went to Box for the first time On Sunday. A big thanks to Root for showing us round and a big thanks for Exocet for driving down also thanks to rikj, madrab79, herbie for making it an enjoyable day.
I very much enjoyed and hope to go back down again.

Sorry for the pictures I did not have a adequate lighting.
Enjoy

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Any one for Relentless and brandy?
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[rikj]

Thanks to hammy for the trip. Also, thanks to pob, exocet, madrab and herbie for being the sort of people you'd want on a trip. No messing and everyone helping everyone else. Once in a lifetime trip for me, (though I might be tempted again!).

Don't want to hijack pob's thread but I'll put a couple of pics here rather than start a new thread. I was trying out a new light and a new camera so it was all a bit hit and miss. Completely messed up the Cathedral pics which was a shame.

I was surprised at how much of the rail system was still there.

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Final pic hopefully shows the size of the place. Not sure whether it is OK to post pics of all of the areas that aren't quite "public". So I won't.

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Some of the photos are here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rikj/sets/72157602047220583/

And yes. It's big.

[Exocet]

A few of my photos, mostly the usual stuff, perhaps one or two that aren't usually posted. I've already mentioned in other threads, but once again - Excellent trip, excellent people, brilliant place. Thanks to Root and the rest of the gang.

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Cathedral.

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Tom, enjoying a meal.

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A well.

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A crane, along with the ever elusive mine tripod. We tried to catch one, but alas they're too fast for us two legged humans.

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The same crane, looking towards the end working.

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Crab winch.

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6 foot saw!

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Looking up steps to the base of a shaft to the surface. MadRab's up there... Somewhere!

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At the top of the steps, the ladder to the surface. Not very stable these days!

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Looking back down the steps. Though it doesn't show in the photo, these are really steep.

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Slender forest. We didn't go here, honest.

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Finally, the robots, still partying away.

Cheers!