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Memoirs of a Moldywarp |
Publications
Elaine and Peter publish as "Broomlee Publications". There are now two books for sale - see below - but there are still ISBN numbers available if you would like to publish through our imprint. Contact Elaine via her e-mail: elryder@broomlee.org This is Pete’s caving book; you can buy it here for £8.75. . It is about caving, that is, the practice of going down into natural limestone caves, exploring then, mapping them, and generally enjoying the underground environment, and the company of like-minded people who also find this is one of their pleasures. It is not a scientific treatise, and does not seek to relate events that changed the world. Writing it was merely a pleasurable exercise, to some extent self-indulgent, which enabled the author to relive in mind forty years of speleology without suffering the pain that reliving it in body would have meant. Peter Ryder is a founder member of the Moldywarps Speleological Group. Cluff, who did the drawings, is an old school friend and also an the original Moldywarps, who cartoons full time (you can see his work every day in ‘The Northern Echo’ but has also figured in such august publications as Punch and Private Eye). The Cross Slabs of Brancepeth The new book, as described by on the back cover: 'In September 1998 fire completely gutted the ancient church of St Brandon at Brancepeth in County Durham; its fine collection of ancient woodwork was completely lost, but from the debris came to light an amazing series of over 100 medieval grave covers - the largest collectionever found in the North of England - bearing beautiful cross designs and enigmatic emblems. This is the story of that find, complete with a scale drawing of every slab, along with an account of the complex thousand-year structural history of the church.' The Cross Slabs of Brancepeth . . . after the fire, a major archaeological discovery by Peter F Ryder |
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