Success Stories
The Chris and Sue Townson Fossil Collection
Simon Carpenter, Richard Ashley, Alan Bentley, Chris Townson Corresponding author email: simonccarpenter@gmail.com Abstract Following a request in the Bristol Naturalists’ Society bulletin (December 2023–January 2024 issue) to rescue ‘at risk’ geological…
The Kingswood Geology Collection
The Kingswood geology collection was started in a small way in the late nineteenth century by staff, pupils, former pupils and others. It gradually accumulated over the years and was given a huge boost in 1962 by the addition of a geology laboratory in the north wing…
The Stonar School Geological Collection
Introduction In October 2019, the writer became custodian of the Stonar School Geological Collection including a substantial number of minerals and fossils collected by the late Philip Werran Curnow (1912 –1992), a former teacher of archaeology and geology at Stonar…
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