BGS Geoheritage – images from the collections

E B Bailey doing fieldwork ( P225785 )  E B Bailey was born on 1 July 1881 at Marden, Kent. In 1902 he graduated with first-class ...

F M Trotter in 1927 Artist's impression of Trotter as a dispatch rider F M Trotter was born at Gateshead on 19 April 1897. ...

Detail from one of Cunnington's field slips (Haunton, Staffordshire) C H Cunnington (of whom we do not have a photograph) was born o...

H H Thomas ( P585032 ) In September 1916 the Geological Survey was contacted by the Admiralty Compass Department asking for assista...

A chance discovery among some photographs in the BGS Geomagnetic archive included this interesting image of a lighthouse. After much sear...

Transcription of Eli Simpson's notes The Eli Simpson Archive is a major collection of c 100 large format record books full of expl...

Brora coalfield is the most northerly in the UK.  A H.D. Hewitt photograph.   From the Geologists' Association photograph colle...

Signatures in the North-West Highlands Memoir During recent stocktaking at Murchison House, British Geological Survey in Edinburgh...

BGS Image ID:   P704769   CALX carbonata; var. inversa. Inverse crystallized Carbonate of Lime. Plate no. 143 From: Sowerby, Jame...

A geologist with the then Ordnance Geological Survey (now the British Geological Survey) from its inception in 1835 and a contemporary of ...