THRUPE LITE EXTRA

People doing things.

After more than 40 years at Thrupe Farm,  Nelson and Gilda Butt have retired from farming and they have moved to a bungalow in Shepton Mallet.   Nelson and Gilda have been an essential part of the digging at Thrupe Lane over the last 35 years and to celebrate this, the diggers enjoyed a meal with them together with an exchange of reminiscences and much hilarity at the Mendip Inn on Saturday 29 April.

Dave Tuffery (MNRC) emerging from a mineshaft on the Yoxter ranges.   The shaft has NGR of 53144 52992 and was found to be just over 7 metres deep,  with a short, choked passage leading off at the bottom.

Roger Haskett contemplating his navel at the BEC 70^th anniversary Bar-B-Q.

One giant lleap for mankind.  Rich Witcombe (with hair) attempting to jump across the end of the Pont CysyLLte Aqueduct on the LLangoLLen canaLL.   He made it safely to the other side to the great disappointment of the waiting photographers.