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Iain As the picture caption says, he was wearing a safety harness! "Plumbing the shaft - this time the depth reached before a definite obstruction was 125 metres. Bob (in the digger bucket) is wearing a safety harness" Cheers Roger ----- Original Message ----- From: "Iain Wright" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 7:51 AM Subject: [MINING-HISTORY] Yate No 2 Coalmine Shaft (South Glos) has been infilled by the Coal Authority > Great photo of a man in a digger bucket with no apparent safety harness, > etc., plumbing a mine shaft to find solid ground at an unknown depth! With > some 10m to water level and a shaft of at least 300m depth, I'm sure the H > & > SE would have a field day with it. > > > > Iain > >