Sunday, 30 June 2013

Oblique aerial view of Blindwells Opencast Site, Tranent, 1996.

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BGS image ID:  P001315 Oblique aerial view of Blindwells Opencast Site, Tranent, East Lothian, looking from the east-north-east. Working...
Saturday, 29 June 2013

Joseph Beete Jukes M.A., F.R.S.

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BGS image ID:   P505852 Joseph Beete Jukes 1811-1869. Born at Summerhill, near Birmingham. Studied under Sedgwick. Worked in Newfoundla...
Friday, 28 June 2013

Scottish oil shale distillates, 1905 vintage.

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BGS image ID: P528115 Samples of the different distillates and products that are produced during the processing of Scottish oil-shale. S...
Thursday, 27 June 2013

Westfield Opencast Coal Mine, 1977.

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BGS image ID: P001513 Oblique aerial view of the Westfield Opencast Coal Mine from the north-east Fife Region. Cut to extract the abnorm...
Wednesday, 26 June 2013

Ball clay manufactures, Heathfield Potteries, Newton Abbot.

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BGS image ID:  P208108 Heathfield Potteries, Newton Abbot. Bovey Tracey ball clays. Great Western Potteries, Heathfield. Pipe making. Cl...
Tuesday, 25 June 2013

Cartoon by H T De la Beche

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BGS image ID: P832328 This cartoon was drawn by Henry De la Beche and features himself. The writing at the bottom says "Opportuni...

Making grindstones, Messrs. Armitage's Quarry, Normanton

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BGS image ID:  P206950 Messrs. Armitage's Quarry, Normanton, Yorkshire. Looking NE. Middle Coal Measures. Grindstone constructed fro...
Monday, 24 June 2013

Cheddar Gorge in 1894.

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BGS image ID: P233315 Lying on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills the gorge in Carboniferous Limestone was formed by meltwater floods...
Sunday, 23 June 2013

Here lived William Smith, Tucking Mill, Somerset in 1890.

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BGS image ID: P259913 Here lived William Smith " Father of English Geology" Born 23rd March 1769, Died 28th August 1839. Plaqu...
Saturday, 22 June 2013

Stonehenge

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BGS image ID: P203213 Stonehenge, Amesbury. Looking E. 35 degrees N. Stonehenge. Outer Circle from within and Inner Circle of foreign st...