Announcements

[Phil Blinkhorn]

Due to abuse of the Forums by spammers, moderation has been in force for the last few months and this has led to a reduction in the use of the Forums by members wishing to post.

Moderation has now been removed and your posts should now appear immediately.

However, the spamming problem has not gone away so registration on the forum has been disabled.

Prospective new users of the Forum must e-mail the administrators to join.

Please introduce yourself, giving your name, location, preferred username and password, and we will reply via e-mail with your user details. You can then log into the Forum and join the discussions.

Please use the following e-mail address:

philbky@gmail.com

You will receive a response within 24 hours.

Thank you for your co-operation

Phil Blinkhorn - Administrator and moderator

Aidan O'Rourke - Administrator and forum owner

[Phil Blinkhorn]

Any photograph or graphic placed within the body of a message on these Forums MUST be the copyright of the member posting or the member must show proof of authority to use the item from the copyright holder and credit must be given to the copyright holder.

Any text from another publication (print or electronic) used or quoted must be the copyright of the member or, if written by a third party, be used within the accepted understanding of "fair usage" with full credit given to the author.

All such material will be subject to moderation and the member will be contacted before the material in the post appears on the Forums

All members are bound by this and the management of the Forums will actively assist any official investigation into breaches of copyright.

Members may post links to other sites containing photos/graphics/text, the management of the Forums is not responsible for the content or origin of content on other sites.

[Phil Blinkhorn]

The owner and administrator of the site are well aware of the interest engendered by the parts of the area that are underground and also by buildings, seemingly left unattended which, in the opinion of many, would be better if put to worthwhile use.

Exploration of such places can be interesting, exciting and reveal much that is of interest to our readership but much of such exploration is carried out on the edge of, if not over, the bounds of legality.

Publication of methods of access and some of the information gained places the publishers in a grey area in legal terms.

We will happily post information gained legally, for instance in the course of employment, from newspapers, books, information in the public domain and, of course, from access gained for exploration with the full consent of the owners.

From now on any post detailing methods of access to such places will be at least edited, if not deleted. Any post detailing information of the construction or contents of such places will be the subject of a query to the member unless the means of obtaining the information is clearly stated.

THERE WILL BE NO EXCEPTIONS.