ShowCaveBlog

Norwich is said to have the UK’s largest amount of subterranea, mostly medieval, vaulted cellars. Norwich Heritage Economic and Regeneration Trust (Heart) has commissioned a researcher to explore them. The goal is obviously to make them available to the public. This may include both, an underground sight open to the public, and online documentation of closed cellars. During the annual Heritage Open Days there were tours through a small section of the cellar, which were very popular. However, it seems the extend of the cellars is almost unknown, and there are a lot of rumors, for example one telling of a tunnel from the Cathedral to St Andrew’s Hall, which monks are supposed to have used to go and do inappropriate things with women. Such stories are fun, but they are rarely true…

The site of the abandoned Toburn Mine in Kirkland Lake in Canada will be transformed into a tourist site. The idea is to rent out some of the buildings to earn some money, which then will be spent to create a sort of information center for tourists and to clean the site.
As far as we understand it will not become a classical show mine with underground tours. It will be a passive site with signs and plates and probably trails. There will be no personnel or guides on site.