Down to Earth July Extra 2023
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Down to Earth Extra May 2023
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Summer Field trip bonanza – updated with links
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 …
GeoWeek: Urban Geology walk of Warwick
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 …
GeoWeek. Deep Time Travel through Kenilworth old town
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). …
GeoWeek Event in Talisman Square, Kenilworth
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 …
Down to Earth Extra – April 2023
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Down to Earth Extra – March 2023
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WGCG delivers a successful Outreach event to Shipston Primary School
At the beginning of January WGCG received a request for help from a teacher at Shipston Primary School. Deborah Parke, a WGCG member and local to the area, was approached and kindly agreed to assist the school in their year 3 lesson on volcano’s. Here is a summary of the experience written by Deborah. ” …
The annual workshop back with a bang
On Saturday a capacity delegation participated in the “Geology of Warwickshire” workshop at the Kenilworth Senior Citizens Club. In addition to the 5 scheduled presentations, participants were able to enjoy the two displays set up, one on the Carboniferous and the other on the Jurassic. The meeting kicked off with a presentation from Mike Howe …