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100 Years of the Geology at the Dudley Museum and Art Gallery
When its doors opened on Wednesday 12th December 2012 the Dudley Museum and Art Gallery (DMAG) celebrated 100 years of geology being on display. For centuries geology has played an important role within the Dudley area and to the local community. According to current DMAG Keeper of Geology, Graham Worton, ‘The 100th anniversary will kick [...]
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Tagged Activities, BCGS, Black Country, collections, Dudley, Earth history, Fossils, Geology, Lapworth, Limestone, Murchison, Museums, Places, Societies, The Dudley Bug, Wrens Nest
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Memories of the Dudley Earthquake, Part 2.
Over the past ten years there have been several rock and fossil fairs in Dudley, but no more events like that of September 2002. So what do people remember about it? Readers of the BCGS newsletter were asked to send in their memories of that night. Many of these were similar to the accounts the [...]
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Memories of the Dudley Earthquake, 22nd/23rd September 2002
I had not been a member of the Black Country Geological Society (BCGS) for long and was enjoying my first Dudley rock and fossil fair on the weekend of the 21st / 22nd September 2002. However, what happened as Sunday night passed into Monday morning made the weekend most memorable. During the night I sensed [...]
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Tagged BCGS, Black Country, Dudley, Earthquake, Geology, Places, Societies
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Open Hertitage Day tour – Wolverhampton Art Gallery
The Heritage Open Day tour of Wolverhampton Art Gallery was given in three parts, the first part was led by the Collections Manager, Rachel Lambert-Jones. Rachel took us down to the Resource Centre where they hold some of their stored collections of approximately 1800 objects including fine art, sculpture and their weird and wonderful items [...]
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Tagged Activities, Art Gallery, Black Country, collections, Collectors, Dr Fossil, Dudley, Fossils, Geology, Igneous rocks, Minerals, Museums, Talks, The Dudley Bug, Trilobites, Wrens Nest
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Stuck in the Mud!
On Saturday 28th January the Black Country Geological Society headed south for a chilly fieldtrip to two fossil rich quarries in the Cotswolds. The geologists gathered excitedly at the first quarry, where Dr Neville Hollingworth was waiting to brief us about the local geology and what wonders we may find. Finally everyone arrived and I anxiously listened [...]
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We are the Champions!
In 2008 the Herefordshire and Worcestershire Earth Heritage Trust (H&W EHT) received a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to fund the Community Earth Heritage Champions project, an initiative to select key geological sites in Herefordshire and Worcestershire and involve local people in their ongoing maintenance and promotion. Additional funding was also obtained from [...]
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Tagged Activities, BCGS, Black Country, Champions, Geology, Places, Quarries, Rocks, volunteer
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BCGS set the standard for Style
Join the Black Country Geological Society (BCGS) and you too can look as cool as this! Last year the BCGS had an extremely interesting lecture by Dr Imran Rahman of the University of Birmingham entitled ‘Seeing inside the stones’. This talk revealed the new cutting edge techniques using hospital CT scans of fossils (mostly very [...]
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Tagged Activities, BCGS, Black Country, Dudley, Fieldtrips, Geology, Lectures, Museums, Societies, Talks
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Rock On, Dr Fossil!
On Wednesday 3rd August, Wolverhampton Art Gallery opened its doors for a day full of activities during the school holidays. Dr Fossil was invited along to talk to visitors about a few of the 10,000 fossils held within the Art Galleries stores belonging to Dr Fraser, who left them to the town of Wolverhampton in [...]
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The Black Country Geological Society Needs You!
For geology enthusiasts in and around the Black Country, the local Black Country Geological Society (BCGS) is a great way to get involved with current geological issues. The BCGS hold indoor meetings once a month (October to April) at Dudley Museum and Art Gallery. It doesn’t matter whether you are a professional geologist, a student [...]
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Volunteering opportunities
Live in the Black Country? Have some spare time and would like to help cataloguing museum geology collections? Wolverhampton Arts & Heritage Service are looking for volunteers to help get their geology collections onto this website but first it needs to be catalogued and for that we need the help of knowledgeable volunteers. A great [...]
