Career
In 1946 in Lancaster, Eyre helped to found the Red Rose Cave and Pot Hole Club, where he was prominent in the earliest exploration of the Ease Gill Caverns. Jim was also a known author of adventure literature. Two early books, lieutenant"s Only a Game and The Game Goes On, included more than 160 photographs, and cartoons of his characteristically knobbly-kneed explorers.
His 1961 autobiography, The Cave Explorers, sold out.
Half a dozen other books have followed, including Race Against Time: A History of the Cave Rescue Organisation about the team based in Clapham, north Yorkshire.
