Award-winning Yorkshire cameraman Sid Perou, who has travelled the globe on caving explorations, penetrates the mysterious world beneath the Pennines, and takes us where television has never been before. It's a world seen previously only by an exclusive and obsessive band of explorers - Britain's 20,000 cavers. The golden age of cave exploration falls well within living memory. Veteran caver Jim Eyres, of the British Speleological Association, relives the last great Pennines discovery - the Lancaster Hole - which allowed access to miles of river-ways, caverns and grottos beneath the western dales. Narrator: Ken Cooper Written by: Brian Thompson Film Recordist: Lindsay Dodd Film editor: Martin Winterton Dubbing Mixer: John Hale Executive producer Douglas B. Smith Clip taken from Beneath The Pennines: The Lancaster Hole, originally broadcast on BBC One (North), 6 December, 1977. You have now entered the BBC Archive, a time machine that will transport you back to the golden age of TV to educate, entertain and enlighten you with classic clips from the BBC vaults. Make sure you subscribe so that you never miss a single stop on our amazing journey through the BBC Archive - https://www.youtube.com/c/BBCArchive?sub_confirmation=1 You can also dive into plenty more BBC Archive on our website - https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive
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I miss calm, thoughtful and interesting tv like this
Hats off to the whoever was filming this!🏆
I went caving in the Pennines on a school outward bounds trip in 1984. Some kids were as young as 14 and we all hated every second of it. Squeezing through those narrow gaps deep underground across cold, soaking wet stones. The adult guide even told us to turn our lamps off in one bigger cave to 'experience true total darkness'. What fun that was when half the kids panicked and couldn't turn their lights back on 😂😳🙈 It's the one adventurous thing I always said I would never do again and never have. I bet school trips aren't like that anymore 😂
And heres me who breaks out in a sweat getting me shoes out the understairs cupboard. I couldn't go in there, not while theres a hole in me arse. Hats off lads.
Excellent video ❤💯
Love this style of tv. No over the top graphics, camera work or loud presenters, no distressing gritty content or weird “I’m in a polyamory relationship with a brick and a pig whilst making money on only fans” type stuff, no shock, no upset and not a reality tv star in sight. Bliss. Just some interesting people talking about interesting things.
How do you navigate and map a underground system like this?
Thank God no kids fell down and it was only a rock
Will forever be baffled by how they even got the cameras down here back then, through gaps where a man can barely squeeze in
They will come out in Australia one day bloody hell Bob we're in Sidney 😂😂😂
This was a superb series. Stll have it on VHS tape! I must admit i miss caving. Far too old now :-(
George is 114 now and still enjoys caving with his father
Not for me😊
I am a geologist and geographer and been on many a field trip but you would never catch me caving, terrifying😮
"we've had all sorts down this cave system, in 1973 you couldn't move for cybermen. Michael burke and the 999 crew" :) stump hole cavern with their granary style bakery and 100% safety record lol
Great fun. Nothing like crawling round cracks and slabs in the wet darkness. The cold doesnt seem to hit so much when every step could mean death. Come back up to the beautiful sunlight and get a new appreciation for it.
Bellissimo. No ego, no oooooohhhh ahhhhhhh. I love British style. ❤
When the bbc earnt its subscription fee with unbiased tv
I always fancied a go at this caving, until I watched that horror film The Decent.
There is a rumour that the first man on the moon was the cameraman that filmed Neil Armstrong climbing down the ladder of the surface module on to the moon.