We assembled in Saxmundham Market Hall on Friday evening to meet our leader for the weekend, Tim Holt-Wilson. Despite problems with the projector, he delivered an interesting and informative talk about the geology of Suffolk, setting the scene for the field trip. Whilst walking to the next location, we passed the impressive ruins of a 14th century …
Down to Earth extra – October 2023
On Saturday 30th September 2023 WGCG will host a “Ask a Geologst” session at Warwick museum from 10:30 to 12:30. The first session will be staffed by Ray Pratt and Kathrin Schutrumpf. Our theme this month is the geology of Warwick. We plan to take along a tray of samples that visitors can examine and …
In October WGCG will host the Geologists Association “Geology From Your Sofa”. The GA introduced the GFYS monthly online newsletter during the Covid lockdown period. This proved very popular and enabled the GA to provide a service its members during this disruption to normal activities. Now all activities have returned to normal the need for …
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2023 summer field season began with the two Geoweek events in May taking in the Urban geology of Kenilworth and Warwick. Both events were fully subscribed. Download a photo report of the Warwick trip. Watch a video of the Warwick Sandstone on our YouTube channel. A trip to Roundberry Quarry one beautiful evening in mid …
On Friday 2/6 WGCG held its last GeoWeek event, with a geotour of the centre of Warwick. The event was fully subscribed and was led by Dr Jonathan Radley, assisted by Ray Pratt & Max Downs. Starting at the Museum in the Market Place a distance of 1.5 miles was walked taking in some of …
On Monday 29 June Ray Pratt, assisted by Kathrin Schutrumpf, led a group of the public around Kenilworth old town. The event was organised and promoted by Kenilworth Council as part of their Nature Week festival, which co-incided with GeoWeek. Being a town geotour, the number of participants was limited to 16. (52 expressed interest). …
On Saturday May 27th WGCG participated in Kenilworth Nature week, a half term event organised by Kenilworth Council which co-incided with GeoWeek Management Committee members, Gareth Jenkins and Ray Pratt, assisted by Paris, engaged with the public on this bright sunny day. The purpose of this event was to promote WGCG to the public, and …
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