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27/10/13 Pruning of outdated information and latest MCG News added. Sitemap refreshed

06/08/13 Diamond Anniversary details and latest MCG News added.

12/06/13 Update and tidy up of many sections.

11/06/13 Upper Flood Digs page updated (by Tim Francis) Upper Flood Digs

10/06/13 New HTML version of Upper Flood Survey Upper Flood Survey added to the Surveys page

16/04/13 Newsletter 370 added to the members area

19/12/12 New PDF version of Upper Flood Survey Upper Flood Survey added to the Surveys page

17/12/12 Newsletters 368 and 369 added to the members area

15/02/12 New version of MCG membership application form added to the forms and leaflets page

15/02/12 Pro rata subs table amended (due to increase in BCA subs)on the forms and leaflets page

15/02/12 MCG 2012 membership list and list of MCG cave leaders added to the Members area (protected directory, password required to access documents)

19/01/12 Booking form for Annual Dinner 2012

18/01/12 Newsletter 367 added to the members area

14/01/12 Added public version of MCG News 366 May 2011 to newsletters page

12/01/12 Rebuilt the Members Section of website (password required for archives)

27/11/11 Added details of the Upper Flood Swallet Guest Warden scheme and application form

15/05/11 Newsletter 366 added to the members area

10/05/11 2006 AGM minutes added (restricted-access, members only)

10/05/11 Page added for archive of General Meetings documents (restricted access, members only). So far, only with documents from 2002-2006 but others will be added later

10/05/11 Membership list and Leaders list added (restricted access, members only)

25/04/11 A restricted access section has been set up, with a full archive of MCG Newsletters for members-only

28/04/11 The newsletter archive (open access) has been brought up to date with the addition of issues 360 to 365

23/04/11 Write ups of the April 2011 Beginners Weekend added to the Beginners Page

12/04/11 Added Bif's photos of Yorks 2011

05/04/11 Added new version of Spain 2011 prospectus and updated links from the trips page and abroad page

04/04/11 Added a better survey of Sima GESM here - and click image to get full survey

24/03/11 Updated the Gift Aid form

23/03/11 Added Coahuila 1994 report

23/03/11 Added Lechuguilla 1994 report

23/03/11 Added Occasional Publication 2

23/03/11 Added Czechoslovakia 1991 report

20/03/11 Added link to Chartreuse 1995 on the abroad page

20/03/11 Updated the history page and repaired broken links to MCG surveys on MCRA site

19/03/11 Added Occasional Publication 3 MCG en Chartreuse 1995

18/03/11 Repaired the broken links to MCRA surveys on the surveys page (after MCRA moved the surveys to a new website)

16/03/11 Korea 2008 added

15/03/11 Added the Bone Hole survey

14/03/11 Added Tenerife 2010 report

12/03/11 Updated the link to CHERT on the links page

11/03/11 Added Miguel's plans for Spain 2011

11/03/11 Added report of Spain 2010

03/03/11 Brought the latest news page up to date and added MCG News issues 363 and 364

20/02/11 Latest version of Upper Flood Swallet survey added

29/01/11 New version of Cottage Guidlines leaflet uploaded

29/01/01 Uploaded the latest Full Membership form

29/01/11 Moved Spain 2010 to a new page from the Trips page and linked to Trips abroad page

29/01/11 Added Mike Moxon's 2011 UFS calendar

29/01/11 Updated front page - length and depth of Upper Flood Swallet

10/11/10 Added Annual Dinner and Notice of AGM 2011 (see also)

05/11/10 Updated the Constitution and AGM Nomination Form

26/07/10 Updated the recent news and newsletter pages

26/07/10 Added MCG News issues 361 and 362

14/06/10 Added a link to CHERT

09/06/10 Removed the Mexico 2000 page due to a copyright claim from another website

09/06/10 Added UBSS 3d survey of Upper Flood and associated caves

21/04/10 Following an AGM vote, changed the age at which people may join MCG from 16 to 18 in the footers on every web page (192+ changes!)

11/04/10 Julie Hesketh's trip report for Jamaica 2009

11/04/10 Newsletter 360 added

11/04/10 Info about car parking added to documents section (Please don't park on grass verge at Nordrach House)

11/04/10 edited the cottage page - took out unnecessary details of fire alarm and moved other content around. Also added link to car parking info

21/03/10 html version of Journal No 1 added

20/03/10 BCA child protection policy uploaded

20/03/10 Added more surveys

16/03/10 html version of Occ Pub 5 (50th anniversary publication) added

12/03/10 Added Google Streetview of cottage on Location page

11/03/10 Expanded the info on the Charity page (sourced from MCG News 349)

06/03/10 Updated the history page with items from Feb newsletter

06/03/10 New section on the History of Upper Flood Swallet added. Actually, this was added on 14/02/10 but was omitted from this update page. This is a html version of the MCG display produced by Martin Rowe for Hidden Earth 2008 (Otley) and adapted for Hidden Earth 2009 (Churchill)

22/02/10 Created an RSS feed for website changes

14/02/10 Added a section on the forms and leaflets page for documents relating to Trustees

14/02/10 Declaration of eligibility for newly appointed trustees (i.e for members elected or co-opted to committee posts)

13/02/10 HTML version of Occasional Publication 4 - Upper Flood Swallet, Exploration to 1996 added

11/02/10 Added Mendip Geology at BGS website on the links page

10/02/10 Added Annual Dinner booking form (word doc)

05/02/10 Added a page for MCG cave surveys

02/02/10 Updated the history page

12/01/10 Added photos of cottage games

12/01/10 Updated the news page and added web-versions of newsletters MCG357, MCG358, MCG359

07/12/09 Added latest Upper Flood Swallet survey to the surveys page

07/11/09 Created MCG News archive page in members section

04/11/09 Added Flickr page to the members section

12/10/09 Added timelapse survey of Upper Flood Swallet

11/10/09 Created a Flickr pool for Upper Flood and the Blackmoor area (can also be seen as slideshow on the photos page)

09/10/09 Minor corrections to the Cottage Leaflet

09/10/09 Added Postcode and Google Earth placemark to Cottage Location

07/10/09 New layout for front page. Added frame showing slideshow from the Flickr pool photos

29/09/09 Minor changes to the cottage page (non-cavers can use cottage)

28/09/09 MCG: winners of Best Club Stand at Hidden Earth - New front page

21/09/09 Restored m-c-g.org.uk after domain name transfer (previously we had 2 accounts and these have been merged into one account with 2 domain names), and restored the m-c-g.org.uk email accounts

21/09/09 Added an external links page

20/09/09 Added 5-day weather forecast (Bristol) to home page

19/09/09 History updated

19/09/09 Added correct version of Constitution(as amended by EGM 2007) on documents page

08/09/09 Added a few more archive newsletters (2005). These are "web versions" without address, phone or email details

01/09/09 Added Spain 2010 to the Trips page

01/09/09 Added Spain 2010 presentation

01/09/09 Added Info about Spain 2010 on the forms and leaflets page

12/07/09 Added latest news

12/07/09 Updated the forms and leaflets page (put in alphabetical order etc)

07/07/09 Updated the Training Trip (Full membership form) and Tackle Access

21/06/09 Updated the trips page

18/06/09 Created new email address for Caving Secretary

18/06/09 Changed "meets" for "trips" throughout the website at request of Caving Secretary

18/06/09 Added notes on how Bill creates the Upper Flood overlays from Ben's surveys

17/06/09 Updated Concise History (added 2005 to 2009)

17/06/09 Minor changes to several pages: home page   cave leaders   about mcg   Gift Aid   Occ Pub 4   

17/06/09 Changed the masthead to 1000px and centered, rather than 100percent and stretched to fit

15/06/09 Added new content to the beginners page

14/06/09 Deleted the html table on the UFS digs page and replaced it with a Google Docs spreadsheet

14/06/09 Changed the latest newsletter page

14/06/09 Added instructions for the fire alarm to the documents page and linked from the cottage page

14/06/09 Added more newsletters to the archives

12/06/09 Tweaked the spreadsheets on the cottage availability and meets program pages

09/06/09 Made changes to the home page

09/06/09 The UFS survey page has been updated to use Ben's cracking new survey (thanks to Bill Chadwick for google maps stuff!!)

06/06/09 Multi-fuel stove instructions added to forms and leaflets page

06/06/09 Updated the Cottage page with details of new stove

18/05/09 Added Stefan Marjoram's GB photos

17/05/09 Added Paul Deakin's 1985 photos - Midnight Streamway discovery

17/05/09 Added photos of Blackmoor Swallet/Shaft 1960s

17/05/09 Added photos of Stainsbys Oct 2008 and Upper Flood conservation 1998

05/05/09 Facebook page and link added

01/04/09 Due to a change by Google, corrections made to scripts on the survey pages here and here to get them to work again

31/03/09 Added a page to redirect vistors who are seeking commercial caving services

15/03/09 Updated the Cottage Guidance leaflet

15/03/09 Experimented with Apture on front page - look for the movie icon next to the Neverland link

15/03/09 Changed cottage fees to 5.00/2.50 on various page

08/02/09 Added Mike Moxon's photos of the snow

06/02/09 MCG Committee Forum created

28/01/09 Changed the social events page and added 2009 Annual Dinner menu

10/01/09 Created Google Docs spreadsheet for meets

08/01/09 New version of Gift Aid form uploaded

28/12/08 Added (first part of) 2009 meets program

23/12/08 Cottage fees increased to £5 guests/£2.50 members

30/09/2008 updated meets program

17/09/09 Added Tim Francis's Argentina Lave Caves presentation, given to the Volcano Speleology Conference in Korea, Sep 2008

09/09/08 Photos of Breakthrough in Stainsby's Shaft added

09/09/08 Photo of the month album added

21/08/08 added pictures of the ACG hut being moved in 1976

18/08/08 Added Battery Swallet album

01-18/08/08 major redesign of the photos index and reorganisation of all photos into albums powered by Jalbum software

23/07/08 Richard Carey's report on Argentina 2004 and Tim Francis's report on Austria 2001 added

15/07/08 Photos of the dig in Upper Flood passage (1980's) added

15/07/08 Added Biff's photos of the ladder being installed in Stainsby's Shaft, Nov 2007

13/07/08 Added more photos of Roman Rake by Mark Ward

07/07/08 Created a Google Docs spreadsheet for the Cottage Bookings page (can be updated directly by the Bookings Secretary)

30/06/08 Added site search to front page

29/06/08 Added links to Bill Chadwick's photos on Filkr

29/06/08 Latest photos of Roman Rake added

27/06/08 Added more of Burt's photos of Upper Flood

27/06/08 More Upper Flood photos added

27/06/08 Added Tim's 2006 Hidden Earth presentation

26/06/08 Added Tim's Upper Flood Swallet slideshow

26/06/08 Minor changes to home page and new members page

26/06/08 Added Slovenia 2004 presentation

26/06/08 Added more content to Argentina 2006

26/06/08 Added MCG AGM 2002 presentation (Argentina)

25/06/08 Added Argentina 2003

24/06/08 Moved the HE slideshow to a new page

24/06/08 Added Argentina 2002 (also available in Spanish version)

24/06/08 Added Argentina 2000

23/06/08 Added Bill Chadwick's Stainsby's Shaft photos

23/06/08Uploaded Mark Ward's Roman Rake photos

21/06/08 Added table showing subs (pro rata for date joining)

21/06/08 Created a page for results of dowsing exercises

21/06/08 Added Tim Francis' 2005 Hidden Earth Powerpoint presentation - MCG Argentina 2000-2004 works in IE only - not compatible with Firefox (unless someone can tell me how to write the source code?)

13/06/08 Changed the page on caving abroad and added pages for Greece 2002   Argentina 2006   Argentina 2001   Mexico 2000   Austria 2000

10/06/08 Added link on digs page to Bill's digs page on Google Earth

10/06/08 Changed surveys page to include Bill Chadwick's Upper Flood pinned photos and digs pages

09/06/08 Added link on Photos page to Bill Chadwick's "Pin a Photo on the Upper Flood Survey"

09/06/08 Constitution (PDF and Word versions) added to forms and leaflets page

09/06/08 Added Mendip 2008 photos

09/06/08 Created a page for social photos

31/05/08 Added link on survey page to Shetland Attack Pony

31/05/08 Split the latest news page into recent news and old news

30/05/08 Training trip (full membership) form added to forms and documents page

30/05/08 Added Richard D's Upper Flood photos

30/05/08 Added latest Upper Flood survey

27/05/08 Improved navigation for other photos page

27/05/08 Added links on photo page to Phillipa Glanvill's 2007 photos of Upper Flood

26/05/08 Uploaded Bill Chadwick's Upper Flood overlay

26/05/08 Added links on photo page to Pete Glanvill's 1986 photos of Upper Flood

26/05/08 Added links on photo pages to more of Rob Eavis Upper Flood Swallet photo set on Flickr

10/05/08 Added more Upper Flood photos (Streamway Regained and Wall Street)

07/05/08 Re-wrote the access details for Upper Flood

04/05/08 Added more photo albums and redesigned the photos index page again!

26/04/08 Redesigned the homepage

26/04/08 Added details of the Upper Flood rescue dump

26/04/08 Changes to meets program

08/04/08 Added an index page for photos

08/04/08 Added Russ Porter's Stainsby's Shaft dig photos

15/03/08 Added link to Upper Flood wiki page (wiki created to assist in compiling a description of the new cave)

14/03/08 New favicon created ("cup of tea" icon)

14/03/08 Updated the Upper Flood current digs page

13/03/08 Updated the Access page for Upper Flood Swallet

12/03/08 Updated next monthly meet

12/03/08 Updated link from Beginners page to next Mendip Meet

11/03/08 Tidied up the Sitemap

11/03/08 Added an Error Code 404 page

11/03/08 Added the Yahoo Newsgroup in a frame in Members Section

11/03/08 Updated the members page

11/03/08 Changed the contact page and added a html version of the contact form

05/03/08 Tidied up all the HTML code and validated all pages using http://validator.w3.org/check. Most errors have been corrected but a few remain, mostly connected to use of frames showing YouTube and Flash. Added a consistent footer to each page

21/02/08 Updated index page (length of UFS)

17/02/08 Added AGM Notice to News page

17/02/08 Added pdf version of AGM nomination form to Forms and leaflets page

17/02/08 Added word version of AGM nomination form to Forms and leaflets page

15/02/08 New date for Otter Hole trip in meets

14/02/08 Added info about the Annual Dinner to the Social Events page

14/02/08 Added photos of Golden Chamber to Upper Flood photos page

14/02/08 Added Upper Flood geology page

14/02/08 Updated Logbook page

14/02/08 Minor changes (corrected the date of the October Members Weekend) in Social Events and Caving Meets

23/11/08 Added frame for cottage bookings page

04/02/07 Updated the homepage

23/11/07 Added the Caving blog

19/11/07 Added a copy of Ian McKechnie's m-c-g website

17/11/07 Added the Veterans page

17/11/07 Added the concise History (taken from OccPub)

17/11/07 Updated the Forms and leaflets page


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Mendip Caving Group. UK Charity Number 270088. The object of the Group is, for the benefit of the public, the furtherance of all aspects of the exploration, scientific study and conservation of caves and related features. Membership shall be open to anyone over the age of 18 years with an interest in the objects of the Group.