UPDATE:  There are still some MCR 75th anniversary thirts available to purchace at a cost of £12.00 each, these are available in brown, black and blue.

Please contact Alison Moody This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it for more details. There is a picture below of the text shown on the rear of the t shirt, the front has an ambroidered logo "MCR 75 Years"

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The MRO/MCR 75th celebration weekend was enjoyed by cavers from across the United Kingdom along with members of the public, local Police Officers, ex Wardens, special guests and local MP Tessa Munt. (pictured below with Secretary Mark Helmore)

People enjoyed the Friday night with videos being played in the Hunters Lodge Inn (Priddy) these were a selection of Cave Rescue related videos, many from actual rescues.

The saturday gave people a chance to hands on demonstrations of the cave rescue equipment, ranging from stretchers, communications equipment, diving rescue and rigging techniques.

A climbing tower was kindly donated for use where verticle hauling techniques were demonstrated and a 'speleo olympics' assult course was setup to test the skills of the slimmer more adgile cavers.

The afternoon saw a rescue practice in Swildons Hole, where around 20 people assisted in a staged rescue of a caver who had fallen and substained a fractured lower leg, this was a very sucssesful event and the virtual casualty was safely bought to the surface in good time.

The eveings events consisted of social time allowing people catchup, local MP Tessa Munt cutting a cake that Maxine Bateman kindly made along with Bob Cork giving a breif histrory of the MRO/MCR through its 75 years of opperation, this was followed by the annual Digging Award which was awarded to the Grampian Speleogical Society for their discovery of 500m of cave passage in Scotland, runners up were both Mendip based with Charterhouse Cave and Pierres Pot.  An auction was then held where items such as cave painting and artwork along with old cave signs (which have been currently replaced) were sold off with funds going to the MRO/MCR.

The evening was finished off with a typical cavers Stomp and a bar serving local real ale. 

The weekend was a huge sucsess and the MRO/MCR would like to thank everyone who attended, donated money and helped to run the event, this ranged from catering, manning the bar, general logistics to name but a few.