Nigel Marvin opening Fossils Galore in March Cambs- April 2014
Nigel Marvin opening Fossils Galore in March Cambridgeshire on 12th April 2014.
Fossils Galore Walkthrough
Take a look at what we have to see at Fossils Galore Museum in March, Cambridgeshire
Gary at Fossils Galore
A quick tour around Fossils Galore in March Cambs , getting the inside story from Jamie Jordan.
All filming and editing by Reg Clarke.
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The Eocene Fossils of the Isle of Sheppey (2015)
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Bakewell 2013 a walk round the show...
Bakewell 2013 a walk round the show on Saturday morning before it gets busy
Dinosaur Show Set to Open in London
Walking with Dinosaurs: The Live Experience is said to be the biggest animatronic puppet show ever created. The show will soon open in England, after a successful kick off in 2007 in both Australia and the United States. (March 19)
Fossil Hunting And Beachcombing At Compton Bay
We wanted to go fossil hunting at Whale Chine, Isle of Wight, but the steps down to the shore have been closed off because of cliff collapse.
So we went to Compton Bay instead - and spent a pleasant morning hunting fossils and looking for other things on the beach.
Pathfinder March 2018, Cambridgeshire
A 46 mile challenge walk to commemorate the Pathfinder Squadron, starting and finishing at RAF Wyton and visiting four RAF bases
Mudlarking The Estuary: Where Dolls Go To Rest
This week we revisited a very productive beachcombing and mudlarking beach along the Estuary. We found some interesting things...
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Scientists appeal to the public to excavate dino fossil
Palaeontologists who discovered a rare Iguanodon dinosaur skeleton, believed to be 132 million years old, are offering fellow enthusiasts the chance to help them excavate it.
The creature, nicknamed Indie, is thought to be an Iguanodon - a herbivore which could grow to the size of an African elephant and run at 14mph (23kmh).
It took them four weeks to excavate seven blocks full of bones from the Wienerberger brick factory in Ewhurst, Surrey, and transport them back to their lab for analysing.
Researchers are now seeking volunteers to help them uncover the secrets of this large herbivore.
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The Iguanodon was an herbivore that walked the Earth 132 million years ago, during the Lower Cretaceous period.
It would have been 10 feet (three metres) tall, 30 feet (10 metres) long and weighed 4.5 tons.
Jamie Jordan and Sarah Moore from Fossils Galore museum and educational centre in March, Cambridgeshire, uncovered the skeleton in a Surrey quarry last February.
A year after their initial find, Mr Jordan, a self-taught dinosaur expert, says his team - which is made up entirely of volunteers - has removed less than five per cent of the bones from the blocks.
He believes the task will take another five years to complete.
He is now appealing for more people to come and help with the painstaking task at the purpose-built observation booth at the museum, which enables visitors to watch the excavators at work through a glass panel.
Mr Jordan says no previous experience is necessary as all volunteers will be taught how to carefully remove the layers of compacted clay using air scribes and other hand tools.
'We desperately need some more help as everyone here is a volunteer,' he said.
'They don't need to have done anything like this before, as full training will be given.
'Obviously, people won't get to work on the dinosaur straight away if they have no previous experience, but we have other items they can work on, until they have learnt the techniques, and then they can progress onto the dinosaur', he said.
For health and safety reasons they are unable to let anyone under the age of 16 work on it.
As well as physical help, Mr Jordan is also seeking financial support to help keep the excavation project going.
He added: 'As an educational activity centre we rely solely on donations and raising money through school visits and the activities we do here at the museum.
'We don't get any grants or other funding, we have to raise everything ourselves.
'To keep going we really need more financial support; ideally once the skeleton is ready for display, we'd like to have some new premises too, as it's going to be around three metres high.'
Mr Jordan and Ms Moore were on a routine fossil hunt when they found a block of compacted clay that had formed a hard boulder.
After splitting it open, they discovered layers of bones that led them to believe there was more to find - although even they were initially unsure of the scale of their discovery.
The last major dinosaur find on this scale in the UK was back in 1989.
It would have been prey for one of England's biggest predators, Baryonyx, a relative of Spinosaurus.
To help with the excavation contact Fossils Galore on 00441354 278089 or atfossilsgalore.com.
Model Railway Scenes 11: A&WR 'Big Four' Spring Steam Gala 2013
The annual Alverton & Wenbridge Railway Spring Steam Gala took on the theme of 'The Big Four' in 2013 which featured locomotives designed from the four railway groups before nationalisation, these were the Great Western Railway (GWR), Southern Railway (SR), London Midland & Scottish (LMS) and London North Eastern Railway (LNER)
The Gala was the usual mixture of passenger trains and freight trains with a guest locomotive to join the rest of the home fleet.
The full locomotive line up was -
|LMS 'Jubilee' Class No 45568 'Western Australia' (Thanks to Youtuber GWRDec)
|BR(W) Manor Class No 7820 'Dinmore Manor'
|BR(W) 5101 Class No 5157
|GWR 2800 Class No 2810
|GWR 2251 Class No 2253
|GWR 'Small Prairie' Class No 5565
|GWR 'Small Prairie' Class No 5550
|SR N15 Class No 797 'Sir Blamor De Ganis'
|LNER B12 Class No 8544
The biggest gala that's ever happened on the Alverton & Wenbridge with up to 9 locomotives in action! As you may noticed this video is not HD, this is because rendering and uploading a HD video takes alot of time and I have decided that it will be easier for me to record with my older camera so I make and upload model railway videos quicker!
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Bournemouth, Dorset, England, A trip round the town ( 13 )
Bournemouth .With seven miles of golden sands and sparkling sea, the vibrant cosmopolitan town of Bournemouth has it all - a vast variety of shops, restaurants and holiday accommodation, buzzing nightlife and endless countryside with beautiful award winning gardens and water sports galore. Bournemouth is a large coastal resort town in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England. According to the mid-year estimates for 2010 from the Office for National Statistics the town has a population of 168,100, making it the largest settlement in Dorset. It is also the largest settlement between Southampton and Plymouth. With Poole and Christchurch, Bournemouth forms the South East Dorset conurbation, which has a total population of about 400,000.
Founded in 1810 by Lewis Tregonwell, Bournemouth's growth accelerated with the arrival of the railway, becoming a recognised town in 1870. Historically part of Hampshire, it joined Dorset with the reorganisation of local government in 1974. Since 1997 the town has been administered by a unitary authority, meaning that it has autonomy from Dorset County Council. The local authority is Bournemouth Borough Council. Bournemouth's location on the south coast of England has made it a popular destination for tourists. The town is a regional centre of business, home of the Bournemouth International Centre and financial companies that include Liverpool Victoria and PruHealth.
Although Bournemouth is on the coast, the centre of the town lies inland - the commercial and civil heart of the town being the Square. From the Square the Upper and Lower Pleasure Gardens descend to the seafront and the pier. Areas within Bournemouth include Bear Cross, Boscombe, Kinson, Pokesdown, Westbourne and Winton. Traditionally a large retirement town, Bournemouth (mostly the Northbourne, Southbourne and Tuckton areas of Bournemouth together with the Wallisdown, and Talbot Village areas of Poole) has seen massive growth in recent years, especially through the growth of students attending Bournemouth University and the large number of language schools teaching English as a foreign language.
Bournemouth is located directly to the east of the Jurassic Coast, a 95-mile ( 153 km ) section of beautiful and largely un spoilt coastline recently designated a World Heritage Site. Apart from the beauty of much of the coastline, the Jurassic Coast provides a complete geological record of the Jurassic period and a rich fossil record. Bournemouth sea front overlooks Poole Bay and the Isle of Wight. Bournemouth also has seven miles ( 11 km ) of sandy beaches that run from Hengistbury Head in the east to Sandbanks, in Poole, in the west.
Because of the coastal processes that operate in Poole Bay, the area is often used for surfing. An artificial reef was expected to be installed at Boscombe, in Bournemouth, by October 2008, using large sand-filled geotextile bags. However, this deadline was not met, and the construction was actually finished at the end of October 2009. The Boscombe Reef was constructed as part of the larger Boscombe Spa Village development. Bournemouth also has several chines ( e.g., Alum Chine ) that lead down to the beaches and form a very attractive feature of the area.
The Dorset and Hampshire region surrounding Bournemouth has been the site of human settlement for thousands of years. However, in 1800 the Bournemouth area was largely a remote and barren heathland. No one lived at the mouth of the Bourne River and the only regular visitors were a few fishermen, turf cutters and gangs of smugglers until the 16th century. During the Tudor period the area was used as a hunting estate, Stourfield Chase, but by the late 18th century only a few small parts of it were maintained, including several fields around the Bourne Stream and a cottage known as Decoy Pond House, which stood near where the Square is today.
With the exception of the estate, until 1802 most of the Bournemouth area was common land. The Christchurch Inclosures Act 1802 and the Inclosure Commissioners' Award of 1805 transferred hundreds of acres into private ownership for the first time. In 1809, the Tapps Arms public house appeared on the heath. A few years later, in 1812, the first residents, retired army officer Lewis Tregonwell and his wife, moved into their new home built on land he had purchased from Sir George Ivison Tapps. Tregonwell began developing his land for holiday letting by building a series of sea villas. In association with Tapps, he planted hundreds of pine trees, providing a sheltered walk to the beach ( later to become known as the ~ Invalids walk ). The town would ultimately grow up around its scattered pines. In 1832 when Tregonwell died, Bournemouth had grown into small community with a scattering of houses, villas and cottages.
66951 through Severn tunnel Junction 14/03/2011
66951 through Severn tunnel Junction on the 6B42 Stoke Gifford to Neath AWF 14/03/2011
Finding fossils on the Isle of Sheppey
Francis & Mark went with Val & Pete to find fossils... you have to listen to Val's warning after the fossils are returned to the BBC Studio.,
Mudlarking on the River Thames London & beachcombing the Thames Estuary
Join me for a mudlark along the Thames foreshore in London where we discover some beautiful clay pipes and then for a jaunt out to the Thames Estuary for a spot of beachcombing and art on the tideline with plastic waste collected during the Estuary walk.
You do need a permit to mudlark along the banks of the Thames in London. You can apply for one from the Port of London Authority.
Thames Discovery do guided walks and are a great place to start learning about the Thames foreshore
And if you want to help to clean up the Thames of it's plastic pollution, you can contact Thames 21
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Nicola