Geologists' Association Field Excursion to Leith Hill June 3rd 1912

Geologists' Association Field Excursion to Leith Hill June 3rd 1912. Names of those listed:
C. Bromehead, Miss Cadmore, Miss Bassett, Miss Crosfield, A.C. Young, A Crosland (?), C. Candler (?). Dr. Bernstein, W. Watts, A. Gibbons. H. Lapworth.

From the Geologists' Association 'Carreck Archive' held at the British Geological Survey.

Posted by Bob McIntosh

China Clay works, Lantern Pit and Cleaves Pit, North Cornwall, April 16th 1914

BGS Image ID: P804212

Lantern Pit, North Cornwall, April 16th 1914

BGS Image ID: P804218

Cleaves Pit, North Cornwall, April 16th 1914.

China clay is a material called kaolin and was used to make fine white porcelain. The extraction of China clay in the St. Austell area was one of the great extractive industries in Cornwall.

Bob McIntosh

Geologists' Association Excursion to Hastings, June 22nd 1907. The Strade.

Geologists' Association Excursion to Hastings, June 22nd 1907. The Strade. A modern pebble beach showing the ridge formed by high tides.

From the Geologists' Association 'Carreck Archive'

Bob McIntosh

Leading ladies - 1912 GA Field Excursion to Leith Hill

Leading ladies - 1912 GA Field Excursion to Leith Hill. From the Geologists' Association 'Carreck Archive'

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Geologists' Association Eifel Excursion. At the University of Bonn.

Geologists' Association Eifel Excursion. At the University of Bonn. Group photograph.

Bob McIntosh

100 years ago - Geologists' Association Field trip to the Lizard, Cornwall, Easter 1913. Director Sir John Flett.

Geologists Association Field trip to the Lizard, Cornwall, Easter 1913. Director Sir John Flett. Group photograph and key.

Bob McIntosh

Geologists' Association Field trip - Oswestry 1908 - group photograph

Geologists' Association  - Oswestry  Excursion, 1908 - group photograph. Photograph from the GA 'Carreck Archive'

Bob McIntosh

Easter 1916, Bourton, Dorset. Geologists' Association Excursion.

Geologists' Association Excursion Easter 1916 - a page from a GA photograph album.

The image is a page from one of the many GA photograph albums now on deposit at the National Geological Records Centre, British Geological Survey and currently undergoing digitization and cataloguing. The GA 'Carreck Archive' is an amazing resource. It consists of a large number of photograph albums/scrapbooks and many loose photographs and ephemera relating to the GA excursions from the 1890s to the 1970s.

Unlike many other geological organizations of the time ‘Ladies’ were eligible for membership of the Association from its formation in 1858, and as a consequence, many of the early women geoscientists are represented in photographs and signatures. There was also no age limit so children were allowed to join, today a highly popular junior club called Rockwatch carries on this tradition.

Bob McIntosh

Scrablag

BGS image no: P804274 (not available on Geoscenic yet)

Scrablag, Ible Sill near Matlock, Derbyshire. From the T.W. Reader album of photographs of the Geologists' Association excursion to Derbyshire on July 28th 1914, in the G.A. Carreck Archive. An adjacent photograph in the archive states that scrablag is a local name for peculiarly shaped concretions in sand. Scrablag also seems to be a local term in the Isle of Man where it is used for gravels and sands that are cemented into hardpan. Does anyone know of any references to it in Derbyshire?

Bob McIntosh