Henry Moubray Cadell Collection. Photos from four continents.

BGS Image ID: P769129

Cadell family(?) in India

BGS Image ID: P768981

Pyramids and Sphinx of Egypt

BGS Image ID: P768923

Yosemite, in the United States of America

BGS Image ID: P768832

Tsar Bell, Kremlin, Russia

Henry Moubray Cadell of Grange, FRSE (1860-1934) was a Scottish geologist and geographer.  He is known for his experiments in mountain building.The British Geological Survey holds his notebooks relating to the experiments and recreates the squeeze box experiments every year at the BGS Open Day in September. He is also known for his work on the Moine Thrust and the oli shales of the Lothians.

The British Geological Survey holds Cadell's extensive photograph collection. All are now available on Geoscenic.

Bob McIntosh

Rock thin sections from the Lugar Sill, Ayrshire.

BGS Thin section number: N10550. Lugar Drill Hole No.3, N bank of Glenmuir Water just up stream with Bellow Water, depth: from 18.8 inch section to 12ft 1 inches. 

BGS Thin section number: N10554. Lugar Drill Hole No.3, N bank of Glenmuir Water just up stream with Bellow Water, depth: from 12.8 inch section to 14ft 1 inches. 


The petrological thin sections (microscope slides) are being digitally photographed (plane and cross polarized light) and progressively linked to the database. Currently about 110,000 Scottish thin sections are available (220,000 images) (S & N registration series). The English collection is currently being captured and the first images will be available on Britrocks during 2014. To view others in the collection visit Britrocks, the British Geological Survey online catalogue of rock and mineral samples.

To see how the images have been captured by our team of volunteers visit this blog post on Geoblogy by Isla Simmons and Rachel Whitty.

Bob McIntosh

Long Churn Cave, Leeds Cave Club, 1931. H.W. Haywood Collection.

Sample images from the H.W. Haywood Collection, Leeds Caving Club 1928-1934

BGS Image ID:  P617430

Leeds Cave Club outside entrance. Long Churn Cave, 1931.

BGS Image ID:  P617445

 The traverse pool and plank pool.

BGS Image ID:  P617476

Descent of Long Churn chimney.

BGS Image ID:  P617588

Plan of Long Churn Cave with Diccan and Alum Pots

Photographs from the H.W. Haywood Collection held at the British Geological Survey.

A collection of photographs depicting cave exploration and related activities in the Yorkshire Dales area by the Leeds Cave Club in the early 1930s and taken by Harold Wadsworth Haywood FRPS was donated to the Geological Survey of Great Britain Library by Miss Haywood in 1935. The collection consists of two large albums containing a total of 460 separate photographs. There are also twenty-six pages of typescript notes, a bibliography and nine pages of hand-drawn maps and sections illustrating the Alum Pot area and its caves, all produced by Eli Simpson.

The dates of the photographs range from 1928-1934. The images cover the Yorkshire Dales and adjacent areas of Lancashire and Westmorland in the west. They include surface photographs of the caves and karst features, many spectacular underground shots of the caves and their formations, and pictures of members of the Leeds Cave Club, exploring the caves and carrying out a variety of other activities on the surface.

Website for the Haywood Collection

Images on Geoscenic

Publications

Nixon, Gill. 2007 Cave and karst images: the rediscovery of an important historical record. Cave and Karst Science : Transactions of the British Cave Research Association, 33 (2). 87-88.   Download PDF

Nixon, Gillian; Lowe, David; McIntosh, Robert. 2008 The Harold Wadsworth Haywood collection of early caving photographs. [Poster] In: 19th Cave Science Symposium, Loughborough University, 8th March 2008.  Download PDF

Bob McIntosh

Aberystwyth and Borth, storm damage 28th October,1927.

Images from the British Association for the Advancement of Science Photograph Collection held at the British Geological Survey. 

BGS Image ID: P252857 

North end of Marine Terrace, Aberystwyth

• BGS Image ID: P252858 

North end of Marine Terrace, Aberystwyth

• BGS Image ID: P252859

North end of Marine Terrace, Aberystwyth

• BGS Image ID: P252860

North end of Marine Terrace, Aberystwyth

• BGS Image ID: P252861

North end of Marine Terrace, Aberystwyth

BGS Image ID: P252862

North end of Marine Terrace, Aberystwyth

• BGS Image ID: P252863

North end of Marine Terrace, Aberystwyth

• BGS Image ID: P252864

South Marine Terrace, Aberystwyth

• BGS Image ID: P252865

Borth, North of Aberystwyth

• BGS Image ID: P252866 

Borth, North of Aberystwyth

• BGS Image ID: P252867

North end of Marine Terrace, Aberystwyth

• BGS Image ID: P252868

North end of Marine Terrace, Aberystwyth

• BGS Image ID: P252869

North end of Marine Terrace, Aberystwyth

• BGS Image ID: P252870 

North end of Marine Terrace, Aberystwyth

Victoria Terrace, Aberystwyth. Storm damage 15th January 1938.

BGS Image ID: P257998

Aberystwyth storm aftermath of 1938 recorded by British Pathe (From BBC)

 

Bob McIntosh

Swildon's Hole, Priddy, Mendip Hills, Somerset.1921.

BGS Image ID: P249907

Tratman's Temple 

BGS Image ID: P249908

Barnes Loop

BGS Image ID: P249905

The White Way through Barnes Loop

BGS Image ID: P249906

Slender stalagmite pillars [Tratman's Temple]

Images from the British Association for the Advancement of Science photograph collection held at the British Geological Survey.

Photographs were taken by J.Harry Savory in 1921. A brief account of the cave exploration at this time can be found in the recent book: Irwin, D., Moody, A., Farrant, A. Swildon's Hole: 100 years of exploration. Published by the Wessex Cave Club, 2007.

Bob McIntosh

Iguanodon, Elephant, Bison, Rhinoceros and other saurian remains 1911.

Thigh bone of Iguanodon, Wealden Beds, Brook, Isle of Wight. E.T. Martin.

Rhaetic Bone Bed. saurian and fish remains. Garden Cliff. Gloucestershire. J.W. Fletcher.

Elephant and Rhinoceros. Barrington Beds. Cambridgeshire. H.M. Krusin 15.6.1911

Bison, Elephant and Rhinoceros, Barrington Beds. Barrington Cambridgeshire 15.6.1911

Images from the Geologists' Association 'Carreck Archive' held at the British Geological Survey

Bob McIntosh

Searching for Palaeolithic implements, Milton Street Gravel Pits, Kent. 1908.

Caption: Workmen with rods for searching for Palaeolithic implements, Milton Street Gravel Pits, Kent. T.W. Reader 23.5.08. [1908]

Caption: Some members examining the Flint Implement collection of Mr. Treacher.  [Llewellyn Treacher] T.R.W. 25.6.10 [1910]

Photographs are from the Geologists' Association 'Carreck Archive' on deposit at the British Geological Survey.

Bob McIntosh

Christmas card from J V Harrison, 1930

BGS image ID: P700432

BGS image ID: P700433



BGS image ID: P700434


This Christmas card from J V Harrison shows Aiuuk Bivouack in the Bakht-i-ari mountains of Persia (now Iran).

John Vernon Harrison was born on 16 March 1892. He graduated with a BSc with distinctions in Chemistry and Geology from the University of Glasgow in 1914.  In 1916-1918 he served with the Royal Engineers in Mesopotamia. In 1918 he joined the geological staff of the Anglo Persian Oil Company. He carried out field work in Persia and Iraq (1918-1920) and then travelled to many places including Honduras (1920-1922), United States and Mexico (1922-1923),  North Borneo, Hong Kong, Japan and Canada (1924), Peru (1924-1925), Jamaica (1925), Venezuela (1925-1926), Trinidad (1926-1927) and Colombia (1927-1928). Much of his time after 1928 was spent in Persia until he was appointed Lecturer in Geology at Oxford University in 1938. Summer vacations allowed him to travel to the Peruvian Andes with some of his students. During World War II he was seconded to the Admiralty for geographical work. After the war he was appointed Reader in Structural Geology back at Oxford. He retired in 1959, was awarded the Lyell Medal in 1961and died on 31 July 1972

A catalogue of Harrison's collection at the British Gelogical Survey Archives can be accessed here

Andrew L Morrison

Ballochmyle Quarry, Mauchline. Ayrshire, 1921

BGS Image ID: P000071

Ballochmyle Quarry, Mauchline. Ayrshire. New Red Sandstone (Permian) red desert sandstones showing large-scale aeolian (wind-blown) dune-bedding. The huge size of the quarry is indicated by the scale of the quarrymen – the quarry is often over 64 m deep. Access to the working face by ladder is clearly seen. Health & safety was not what is today! Large blocks are lifted by crane powered by a vertical steam boiler. 

Date of image: 1921.

BGS Image ID: P753273

A sample of Ballochmyle sandstone from the National Building Stone Collection held at the British Geological Survey. Econ. 7471. The sandstone consists of well-sorted, mostly rounded and frosted sand grains. They are red in colour due to a coating of haematite, an iron oxide.

Emily Tracey
Building Stones Conservation Specialist. 
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Horsey coastal inundation, Norfolk 1938.

BGS image ID: P256624

Horsey inundation 1938. Course of the 'hundred streams'.

BGS image ID: P256625

Horsey inundation 1938. Looking inland from south edge of gap which finally reached length of 500 yards.

BGS image ID: P256626

Horsey inundation 1938. Peat exposed in foreshore by cutting back of beach.

BGS image ID: P256627

Horsey inundation 1938. View from behind temporary defences, looking seaward.

'Village of Horsey again inundated' Newspaper article 1938.

Images taken by H. Ashley. From the British Association for the Advancement of Science photograph collection. The collection is on permanent deposit with the British Geological Survey.

Historical photographs are often valuable evidence when comparing geological processes over time.

Bob McIntosh