Welcome to Dave Irwin's web pages

... where you will find information and guidelines relating to cave picture postcards, general caving ephemera and ...

... details of the MENDIP CAVE REGISTRY

This is the page for the caver collector. There are not many serious Speleologists who do not collect / amass anything that relate to caves. It starts with the accumulation of guide books and then the more general caving book of the 'How to do it' type. By then the collecting disease has already set in and eventually many cavers find themselves looking for particular types of material such as old souvenirs from the show caves and the older caving club publications. A library is on the way !

Several collectors have asked the simple question when was this or that publication published; when was that picture postcard on sale and so on ... The idea of the pages that follow within this site is in a form of a magazine illustrating some of this material that may occasionally be found in those back street junk shops.