Dudley Canal Trust - A brief history of Dudley Tunnel and famous limestone mines. Information for boaters requiring passage through the 2888m long tunnel and on boat trips into the limestone mines under Dudley.
Dudley Caving Club - Information and events for both experienced and novice cavers.
Dudley Ramblers - Includes details of membership, walks programme, and a photo gallery.
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-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) If you are going through hell, keep going.
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-- Woody Allen Health food makes me sick.
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-- G. K. Chesterton Recreation and Sports People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Recreation and Sports
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
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The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
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A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
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If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
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-- Agatha Christie Recreation and Sports
Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
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-- Victor Borge Recreation and Sports
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
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