Hull Geological Society meetings 2014 to 2025 –

Saturday 4^th January 2014 – New Year Picnic at Sand-le-Mere led by Brenda and Jack Almond.

Friday 10th January 2014 - Microscopy Evening

Tuesday 14th January 2014 - Prof Dan Parsons of Hull University on "Dirty dancing - fine sediment dynamics and the rock record". Attended by 20 members and guests.

Saturday 18th January 2014 - South Landing and Sewerby led by Mike Horne.

Tuesday 21st January 2014 - Club Night on Vertebrate Fossils and Crinoids.

Thursday 13th February 2014 - Arjan Reesink of Southampton University - "Interpreting nature's barcode: from the atoms of river deposits to the world's largest rivers". Attended by 22 members and guests.

Tuesday 18th February 2014 - Club Night on Volcanic rocks.

Friday 28th February 2014 - Microscopy Evening.

Tuesday 18th March 2014 – AGM and Martyn Pedley of Hull University on "The Quaternary of the Maltese Islands". Attended by 34 members and guests.

Sunday 23rd March 2014 - Inaugural field meeting of the HGS Bisat Project at Skipsea to record the stratigraphy of the Holderness Coast.

Thursday 27th March 2014 - Club Night on Palaeozoic fossils.

Monday 7th April 2014 - evening planning meeting for the HGS Bisat Project.

Friday 11th April 2014 - Microscopy Evening.

Saturday 12th April 2014 - Rifle Butts SSSI conservation and social event.

Saturday 19th April 2014 - Rifle Butts SSSI conservation and social event.

Thursday 17th April 2014 - HGS Bisat Project research fieldwork at Withernsea.

Thursday 24th April 2014 - Club Night on fossil plants.

Tuesday 29th April 2014 - Patrick Boylan on "W.S. Bisat's 1930s survey and section of the Holderness coast".

Saturday 3rd May 2014 - HGS display at Yorkshire Geology Month launch at the National Coalmining Museum (Caphouse Colliery) by Mike Horne and Stuart Jones.

Saturday 10th May 2014 - Rock and Fossil Roadshow at the Treasure House, Beverley. Attended by 10 HGS volunteers and 63 visitors.

Sunday 11th May 2014 - walk in Hull city centre led by Mike Horne for Yorkshire Geology Month. Attended by five people.

Friday 16th May 2014 - HGS Bisat Project research visit to Skipsea.

Saturday 17th May 2014 - "A Walk on the Woldside" led by Derek Gobbett for Yorkshire Geology Month. Attended by 8 people.

Sunday 18th May 2014 - Sewerby led by Ian Heppenstall and Stuart Jones for Yorkshire Geology Month. Attended by 7 people

Thursday 29th May 2014 - Club Night on Bivalves.

Sunday 1st June 2014 - Danes Dyke led by Ian Heppenstall and Stuart Jones for Yorkshire Geology Month. Attended by 7 people

Wednesday 4th June 2014- HGS Bisat Project research visit to Barmston.

Sunday 15th June 2014 - South Landing led by Ian Heppenstall and Anna Kirk-Smith for Yorkshire Geology Month. Attended by 9 people

Monday 16th June 2014 - HGS Bisat Project research visit to the Holderness Coast.

Wednesday 18th June 2014 - HGS Bisat Project research visit to Mappleton.

Thursday 3rd July 2014 - Microscopy Evening.

Friday 4th July 2014 - Belemnite Masterclass with Prof Simon Mitchell of the University of the West Indies with displays by Stuart Jones, Philip Vixsebroxs, Brenda and Jack Almond, John Green and Paul Hildreth. Attended by 13 members.

Wednesday 9th July 2014 - HGS Bisat Project visit to the British Geological Survey at Keyworth.

Saturday 12th July 2014 - Mappleton led by Stuart Jones.

Wednesday 16th July 2014 - HGS Bisat Project research visit at Mappleton.

Thursday 31st July 2014 - Club Night on Brachiopods.

Saturday 16th August 2014 - Carnelian Bay led by Mike Horne. Attended by 5 members.

Thursday 21st August 2014 - Microscopy Evening.

Saturday 23rd August 2014 - Roadshow at Hornsea Museum with Barrie Heaton, Brenda and Jack Almond, Ron Harrison and Stuart Jones.

Thursday 11th September 2014 - Club Night on Chalk fossils.

Friday 12th September 2014 - Hull city centre walk led by Mike Horne for the Hull Heritage Weekend.

Friday 12th September until Sunday 26th October - Art Exhibition "On the Endless Here" at Gallery Eleven, in Humber Street, Hull. 

Saturday 13th September 2014 - Rock and Fossil Roadshow at Holy Trinity Church for of the Hull Heritage Weekend with displays by Stuart Ones, Brenda and Jack Almond who were helped by 12 other members. Attended by 715 visitors.

Saturday 13th September 2014 - Private viewing of Art Exhibition at Gallery Eleven for HGS members.

Sunday 14th September 2014 - Joint Field Meeting with the Rotunda Geology Group at Flamborough led by Mike Horne & Rodger Connell.

Sunday 21st September 2014 - Scunthorpe area led by Paul Hildreth.

Sunday 28th September 2014 - Flamborough Quaternary Research Group Field Meeting led by Mike Horne.

Wednesday 3rd October 2014 - Bisat Research Group research visit to Tunstall.

Saturday 11th October 2014 - "Regarding Dynamic Processes: Shifting Relations between Geology & the Visual Arts " - a joint meeting with the Yorkshire Geological Society at Hull College of Art and Design at Queen's Gardens. The meeting included the following contributions by HGS members and friends - Michael McKimm with poetry readings from his book “Fossil Sunshine”; Mike Horne on “Where geology meets art – exploring the interface", Patrick Boylan on "Yorkshire Geology through the Artist's Eye: from Turner to Hockney", “In conversation” with  Desmond Brett, Earl Haworth; Mike Horne, and Jo Ray on the panel  chaired by Anna Kirk-Smith. Displays by Phil Entwistle, Nikki Abramson on "Study tour of Iceland 2013" and Stuart Jones, and catering by Anne Horne. There was also a photographic competition and exhibition on “the Aesthetics of Geology”. Attended by 76 people.

Thursday 16th October 2014 - Club Night on "pebbles".

Thursday 23rd October 2014 – Prof Peter Styring of the University of Sheffield on "Carbon Dioxide Utilization: the alternative to geological landfill". Attended by 30 members and guests.

Thursday November 6th 2014 - Microscopy Evening.

Tuesday November 11th 2014 - Committee Meeting.

Thursday 20th November 2014 - Eline van Asperen of Liverpool John Moores University on "When hippos roamed Yorkshire - People, prey and predators in the Last Interglacial". Attended by 24 members and guests.

Saturday 22nd November 2014 - Bill Fairburn of the University of Sheffield on “A re-interpretation of the physiographic evolution of the southern end of the Vale of York from the mid-Pleistocene to Early Holocene”. Attended by 17 members and guests.

Thursday 4th December 2014 - Rebecca Williams of Hull University on “A volcanologist at sea: studying the Louisville Seamounts with IODP”. Attended by 11 members and guests.

Thursday 11th December 2014 - Club Night on crystals.

Sunday 4th January 2015 - New Year Picnic and field excursion at Sand-le-Mere led by Brenda and Jack Almond.

Thursday 15th January 2015 - Members' Evening including - "Till matrix palynology as a provenance tool" by Roger Connell; Field Meetings and Roadshows 2014 by Mike Horne; Bisat Project Progress Report by Graham Kings, read by Rodger Connell; Megafauna of the Flinders Range, Australia by Sonja Boehmer-Christansen; Geomorphology map of Yorkshire Wolds by Derek Gobbett. Attended by 17 members and guests.

Thursday 22nd January 2015 - Committee Meeting.

Thursday 29th January 2015 - Microscopy Evening.

Wednesday 4th February 2015 - Bisat Research Project meeting

Thursday 12th February 2015 - Terry Rockett on "Iceland Land of Rock, Fire, Ice and Water". Attended by 27 members and guests.

Thursday 26th February 2015 - joint meeting with the Harker Geological Society by Lyall Anderson on "Alfred Harker's Times and Travels". Attended by 21 people.

Thursday 5th March 2015 - AGM  and Rodger Connell on "From Wollaston and Brora to Brae: Understanding your oil field". Attended by 21 members and guests.

Thursday 12th March 2015 - Club Night on Fossil Plants and Trace Fossils

Sunday 22nd March 2015 - Flamborough Quaternary Research Group visit to South Landing and Dane's Dyke led by Ian Heppenstall.

8th or 9th April 2015 - Bisat Research Project Field Meeting at Barmston.

Thursday 9th April 2015 - Microscopy Evening.

Saturday 18th April 2015 - Rifle Butts SSSI conservation visit. Attended by 9 members.

Thursday 7th May 2015 - Bisat Research Project Field Meeting at Fraisthorpe.

Saturday 9th May 2015 - "Fifty Shades of Clay" field meeting at Speeton led by Mike Horne.

Saturday 16th May 2015 – Rock and Fossil Roadshow at the Treasure House in Beverley. Attended by 17 members and 52 visitors.

Sunday 31st May 2015 - Urban Geology Walk in Hull led by Mike Horne for Yorkshire Geology Month. 

Thursday 4th June 2015 - Club Night on the Cretaceous.

Sunday 14th June 2015 - field meeting to Victoria Cave and Warrendale led by Ian Heppenstall. 

Wednesday 17th June 2015 - Bisat Research Project field meeting at Fraisthorpe.

Thursday 2nd July 2015 - Quiz Night (with prizes).

Friday 10th July 2015 - evening picnic and field meeting at Mappleton led by Roger Connell.

Saturday 18th July 2015 - Bisat Research Project field meeting at Barmston.

Thursday 30th July 2015 – Cub Night on Pretty Rocks.

Sunday 2nd August 2015 - Filey Brigg led by Mike Horne and Rodger Connell.

Wednesday 19th August 2015 - Bisat Research Project Field Meeting at Mappleton.

Thursday 27th August 2015 - Club Night on Ammonites.

Saturday 29th August 2015 - Roadshow at Hornsea Museum attended by 240 visitors.

Thursday 10th to Sunday 13th September 2015 - Chalk Stratigraphy Symposium (a joint meeting with the Yorkshire Geological Society and Hull University). The symposium included the following contributions by HGS members – field meeting to Ulceby and Melton Ross Quarries led by Paul Hildreth; field trip to Selwicks Bay and Danes Dyke led by Mike Horne, lecture by Mike Horne on “Chalk biostratigraphy – can we get it right please?”; Paul Hildreth on “The Distribution of Flint with Particular Reference to the Chalk Group of the Northern Province”; displays - fossils by John Green; The Hull Geological Society Centenary Chalk Project by Mike Horne.  41 people registered to attend.

Thursday October 8th 2015 - David Bond of Hull University on "An abrupt catastrophe in the Middle Permian palaeo-Arctic (Spitsbergen) was part of a global mass extinction: should the ‘Big 5’ be renamed the ‘Big 6’ ?". Attended by 37 members and guests.

Thursday 19^th November 2015 – Ian Heppenstall on “the geology between Settle and Malham”. Attended by 16 members and guests.

Thursday 11th December 2015 - Martyn Pedley of Hull University on "The William Smith County Map Series: a testimony to the considerable abilities and collaborations of Smith and Phillips”. Attended by 16 members and guests.

Friday 1st January 2016 - New Year's Day geological picnic on the Holderness coast.

Monday 11th January 2016 - Officers' Meeting.

Thursday 14th January 2016 - Microscopy Evening.

Thursday 21st January 2016 - Members' Evening. Talks included -Rodger Connell on the Flamborough Quaternary Research Project; Graham Kings & Rodger Connell on theBisat Research Project; Mike Horne on “Geoconservation in the Graveyard”. Attended by 13 members and guests.

Friday 22nd January 2016 - Committee Meeting.

Thursday 11th February 2016 - Terry Rockett on "Five active volcanoes in southern Italy". Attended by over 30 members and guests.

Sunday 14th February 2016 - Bisat Research Group field meeting at Skipsea.

Thursday 18th February 2016 - Club Night on the Palaeozoic.

Saturday 20th February 2016 – Public Lecture at Hull University by Dean Lomax of the University of Manchester on "British Dinosaurs: A Story Untold". Attended by over 60 people.

Sunday 28th February 2016 - Bisat Research Group field meeting at Skipsea.

Sunday 13th March 2016 - Bisat Research Group field meeting at Skipsea.

Thursday 17th March 2016 – AGM and Prof Mark Bateman of Sheffield University on "A Winter’s Tale: When England was really frozen".

Saturday 16th April 2016 - Rifle Butts SSSI conservation visit.

Saturday 14th May 2016 - Roadshow at the Treasure House in Beverley for Yorkshire Geology Month with displays by Brenda and Jack Almond, David Hill, Stuart Jones and Lewis Rose.

Thursday 19th May 2016 - Club Night on "My favourite geological things".

Sunday 26th June 2016 - Flamborough Quaternary Research Group visit to Dane's Dyke led by Rodger Connell.

Thursday 14th July 2016 - Club Night on Flint, Chert and Chalk.

Saturday 16th July 2016 - Geological Boat Trip at Flamborough organised by Stuart Jones.

Saturday 6th August 2016 - Carnelian Bay led by Mike Horne.

Thursday 11th August 2016 - Club Night on Trace Fossils.

Sunday 21st August 2016 - Withernsea led by Brenda and Jack Almond.

Saturday 27th August 2016 - Roadshow at Hornsea Museum.

Tuesday 20th September 2016 - Bisat Research Group field meeting at Skipsea.

Thursday 6th October 2016 - Club Night on Hard Rocks.

Friday 7th October 2016 - Bisat Research Group field meeting at Hornsea.

Thursday 20th October 2016 - Prof Mark Seaward of Bradford University and Mike Horne on "The geology and lichenology of churchyards". Attended by 26 members and guests.

Sunday 30th October 2016 - Mappleton led by Mike Horne.

Thursday 3rd November 2016 - Club Night on Extinct Creatures.

Thursday 17th November 2016 - Sarah King of the Yorkshire Museum on “The late Palaeozoic amalgamation of Pangaea: the view from the tropical riverbanks”. Attended by 24 members and guests.

Thursday 8th December 2016 - Quiz Night.

Thursday 15th December 2016 - Anna Bird of Hull University on “Metamorphism of the Caledonides of Scotland, deformation of a mountain belt”. Attended by 19 members.

Monday 2nd January 2017 - New Year Picnic and field trip at Sand-le Mere led by Brenda and Jack Almond.

Thursday 12th January 2017 - Club Night on Vertebrate Fossils.

Sunday 15th January 2017 - Bisat Research Group field meeting at Mappleton.

Thursday 19th January 2017 - Ian Heppenstall on "the Geology along the north and middle Craven Faults between Malham and Threshfield". Attended by 12 members and guests.

Friday 20th January 2017 - Committee Meeting.

Thursday 2nd February 2017 - Club Night on Crystals.

Thursday 16th February 2017 - Mike Widowson of Hull University "Divining the Deccan: Tectonics, stratigraphy, timing and effects of a major Large Igneous Province (LIP)". Attended by 27 members and guests.

Thursday 9th March 2017 - Club Night on unidentified objects.

Thursday 23rd March 2017 - Members' Evening and AGM, included Mike Horne on the Chalk of the Yorkshire Coast, Terry Rockett on the Permian Extinction Event, Graham Kings and Rodger Connell on recent research by the Bisat Project and a displays by Stuart Jones, Alice Howard, Brenda and Jack Almond, and Jan and Ted Robson. Attended by 14 members.

Saturday 8th April 2017 - Rifle Butts SSSI conservation visit and social led by Mike Horne.

Saturday 22nd April 2017- geology and lichens of Holderness churches led by Mark Seaward and Mike Horne.

5th to 19th May 2017 - Display of Fossils in Beverley Tourist Information Centre by Rod Towse for Yorkshire Geology Month.

Sunday 7th May 2017 - morning cemetery walk in Hull led by Mike Horne for Yorkshire Geology Month.

Thursday 11th May 2017 - Club Night on geological photographs.

Saturday 13th May 2017- Rock and Fossil Roadshow at the Treasure House in Beverley organised by Rod Towse for Yorkshire Geology Month.

Sunday 11th June 2017 - Flamborough Quaternary Research Group field meeting.

Friday 23rd June 2017 - evening picnic and Fossil Fossick led by Mike Horne on the Holderness Coast.

Thursday 29th June 2017 - Club Night on Cephalopods.

Friday 14th July 2017 - Bisat Research Group field meeting at Withernsea.

Saturday 15th July 2017- Cayton Bay led by Rodger Connell.

Thursday 27th July 2017 - Club Night on Igneous Rocks.

Friday 25th August 2017- Bisat Research Group field meeting at Withernsea.

Saturday 26th August 2017 - Rocks and Fossils Roadshow at Hornsea Museum.

Thursday 7th September 2017 - Bisat Research Group field meeting at Withernsea.

Sunday 10^th September 2017 - Withernsea let by Jack & Brenda Almond.

Monday 25th September 2017- Bisat Research Group field meeting at Withernsea.

Thursday 5th October 2017 - Club Night on miscellaneous geology.

Thursday 19th October 2017- Prof Patrick Boylan on "The World Heritage Convention and the protection of earth science areas and sites of 'outstanding universal value'." Attended by 23 members and guests.

Thursday 2nd November 2017 - Club Night on Sand and Sandstone.

Thursday 9th November 2017 - Rob Newton of Leeds University on  "The early Toarcian (Jurassic) oceanic anoxic event: untangling global and regional signals". Attended by 17 members and guests.

Thursday 30th November 2017 - Quiz Night.

Thursday 14th December 2017- Ian Heppenstall on "Grassington, Lea Green to Conniston Dib". Attended by12 members and guests.

Monday 1st January 2018 - New Year Picnic at Withernsea, led by Brenda and Jack Almond.

Thursday 4th January 2018 - Committee Meeting.

Thursday 18th January 2018 - Club Night on sharing your tips for  identifying rocks and minerals.

Thursday 25th January 2018 - Liam Herringshaw of Hull University "Burrowing Through Time". Attended by 24 members and guests.

Thursday 8th February 2018 - Club Night on rocks and landscape.

Thursday 22nd February 2018 - Members' Evening; David Hill on “Geology in the Arctic”, Mike Horne on “30 years of geoconservation at Rifle Butts SSSI”, Paul Hildreth on "Finding Fault with the BGS" Rodger Connell with a report of the Bisat Research Project, Sonja Boehmer-Christensen on Geomorphology. Attended by 17 members and guests.

Thursday 15th March 2018 - AGM and Katie Strang of the Scottish Lime Centre on "Urban geology: buildings rock!". Attended by 26 members and guests.

Sunday 18th March 2018 - Flamborough Quaternary Research Group field meeting.

Thursday 12th April 2018 - Club Night on Erratics.

Sunday 15th April 2018 - Rifle Butts conservation led by Mike Horne

Thursday 3rd May 2018 - Bisat Research Group field meeting at Kilnsea.

Saturday 5th May 2018 - Mappleton led by Mike Horne for Yorkshire Geology Month.

Thursday 17th May 2018 - Club Night on Bivalves.

Sunday 27th May 2018 - urban geology morning walk in Hull led by Mike Horne for Yorkshire Geology Month.

Thursday 31st May 2018 - Bisat Research Group field meeting at Spurn.

Saturday 2nd June 2018 - Rock and Fossil Roadshow at Flamborough Village Hall organised by Stuart Jones for Yorkshire Geology Month with displays by Stuart Jones, Lewis Rose, Brenda and Jack Almond, Janet and Ted Robson, and  Elayne and Peter Carpenter, and refreshments by Bronwen and Chris Turton

Thursday 7th June 2018 - informal meal at the Goodfellowship to celebrate 130th anniversary of the founding of the Society.

Thursday 21st June 2018 - Club Night on igneous rocks.

Sunday 15th July 2018 - Filey led by Rodger Connell.

Thursday 26th July 2018 - Club Night on geological maps.

Saturday 28th July 2018 - the Chalk of Flamborough Head led by Mike Horne.

Saturday 25th August 2018 - Rock and Fossil Roadshow at Hornsea Museum organised by Stuart Jones with displays of specimens by Brenda and Jack Almond, Hornsea Museum, Lewis Rose and Stuart Jones.

Thursday 30th August 2018 - Club Night on sand and microfossils.

Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th September 2018 - display at the Yorkshire Fossil Festival held at Hull University with displays of posters and specimens by Brenda and Jack Almond, Rodger Connell, Stephen Whitaker and Stuart Jones.

Saturday 29th September 2018 - Rock and Fossil Roadshow at the Treasure House in Beverley.

Sunday 14th October 2018 - Flamborough Quaternary Research Group field meeting.

Thursday 18th October 2018 - Rodger Connell on "Whatever happened to the Wolstonian? Chasing later Middle Pleistocene glaciations". Attended by 20 members and guests.

Thursday 8th November 2018 - Club Night on Minerals.

Thursday 22^nd November 2018 – David Hill on “geology in north east Morocco”. Attended by 20 members and guests.

Thursday 6th December 2018 - Paul Hildreth on "Women in Geology". Attended by 18 members and guests.

Thursday 13th December 2018 - Quiz Night.

Saturday 5th January 2019 - New Year geology walk and picnic at Withernsea led by Mike Horne.

Thursday 10th January 2019 - Committee Meeting.

Thursday 17th January 2019 - Michael Oates on "Exploring Morocco's Palaeontological Riches". Attended by 23 members and guests.

Thursday 24th January 2019 - Club Night on Sand and Microfossils.

Sunday 10th February 2019 - Bridlington led by Rodger Connell.

Thursday 21st February 2019 - Prof Chris Clark of Sheffield University on the "Retreat of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet". Attended by 25 members and guests.

Sunday 24th February 2019 - Bisat Research Group Field Meeting.

Thursday 28th February 2019 - Club Night on fossils.

Sunday 10th March 2019 - Bisat Research Group Field Meeting.

Thursday 21st March 2019 - Prof David Bond of Hull University on "When life nearly died - new perspectives on the Permian-Triassic mass extinction" and "Ediacaran-like textured organic surfaces: microbial mats thrived after the Permian-Triassic mass extinction" with displays. 

Friday 22nd March 2019 - Bisat Research Group Field Meeting.

Thursday 28th March 2019 - AGM and Lyndsey Fox of Hull University on "Illuminating Anthropogenic climate change with 150 years of ocean science".

Monday 8th April 2019 - Bisat Research Group Field Meeting.

Sunday 7th April 2019 - Flamborough Quaternary Research Group field meeting.

Saturday 27th April 2019 - Rifle Butts SSSI conservation led by Mike Horne.

Thursday 9th May 2019 - Club Night on geological maps.

Thursday 16th May 2019 - Withernsea led by Brenda and Jack Almond and Janet Robson for Yorkshire Geology Month. Attended by 7 people.

Sunday 19th May 2019 - walk in Western Cemetery led by Mike Horne Part of Yorkshire Geology Month. Attended by 11 people.

Thursday 6th June 2019 - Club Night on sand and microfossils.

Sunday 9th June 2019 - Rock and Fossil Roadshow at Flamborough Village Hall for Yorkshire Geology Month organised by Stuart Jones.

Saturday 29th June 2019 - “Churches, Lichens and Rocks” at Rudston, Kilham and Kirkburn led by Janet Robson, Mark Seaward and Mike Horne. Attended by 22 members and guests.

Thursday 11th July 2019 - Club Night on patterns in rocks and fossils. Attended by 13 members.

Wednesday 17th July 2019 - display at Driffield Show organised by Jan Robson - cancelled.

Saturday 20th July 2019 - display at Hornsea Carnival organised by Jan Robson - cancelled.

Saturday 3rd August 2019 - geological mapping at North Newbald led by Mike Horne. Attended by 11 members and guests.

Thursday 8th August 2019 - Club Night on geological fieldwork.

Saturday 24th August 2019 - Rock and Fossil Roadshow at Hornsea organised by Lewis Rose and Stuart Jones, with the help of Brenda and Jack Almond, Mike Horne and Rodger Connell. Attended by 116 visitors,  

Sunday 15th September 2019 - Flamborough Quaternary Research Group field meeting.

Thursday 26th September 2019 - Club Night on my favourite geology books.

Thursday October 24th 2019 - Laura Eddey on "A Re-evaluation of Lake Pickering, North Yorkshire". Attended by 17 members and guests.

Saturday 26th October 2019 - Rock and Fossil Roadshow at the Market House in Exchange Street, Driffield, organised by Janet Robson and Stuart Jones. Attended by 55 visitors.

Saturday 9th November 2019 - Microfossils Workshop.

Thursday 14th November 2019 - Chris Darmon of GeoSupplies Ltd. on "The Geology of Southern Norway". Attended by 14 members and guests.

Thursday 28th November 2019 - Club Night on unusual rocks and fossils.

Thursday 12th December 2019 - Graham Kings and Rodger Connell on "A long walk on the beach... in the company of W.S.Bisat and others". Attended by 21 members and guests.

Thursday 19th December 2019 - Quiz Night.

Sunday 29th December 2019 - New Year Picnic at Withernsea led by Mike Horne.

Thursday 9th January 2020 - Committee Meeting.

Thursday 16th January 2020 - Members' Evening. With Mike Horne on “Towards a practical stratigraphy for the Yorkshire Chalk”, Yorkshire Type Erratics” and “The Lewis Penny Collection”, and Terry Rockett on “William Smith and John Philips”. Attended by 14 members.

Thursday 30th January 2020 - Club Night on “geology on the world wide web”.

Thursday 13^th February 2020 – the speaker cancelled.

Thursday 12th March 2020 - AGM and Richard Forrest on “Plesiosaurs from Yorkshire (with a brief excursion south of the Humber)”. Attended by 16 members and guests.

Following the AGM the government imposed restrictions on meetings due to the Covid-19 pandemic; indoor meetings were cancelled and the number of people attending field meetings was restricted until June 2021.

Thursday 2nd April 2020 - Virtual Club Night on "Geological I Spy something beginning with A". Viewed by 13 members on Facebook.

Saturday 4th April 2020 - Conservation visit and social at Rifle Butts SSSI led by Mike Horne and Stuart Jones. Cancelled because of the Covid Pandemic Lockdown.

Thursday 30th April 2020 - Virtual Club Night on "Time to Rethink". . Viewed by 13 members on Facebook.

Saturday 9th May 2020 - Rock and Fossil Roadshow* at Treasure House in Beverley organised by Rod Towse (part of Yorkshire Geology Month). Cancelled because of the Covid Pandemic Lockdown.

Sunday 10th May 2020 - geology walk in Hull's Spring Bank Cemetery led by Mike Horne for Yorkshire Geology Month. Attended by two people under social distancing rules.

May 2020 – virtual Committee meeting by e-mail.

Thursday 21st May 2020 - Driffield Cemetery led by Mike Horne for Yorkshire Geology Month. Attended by two people under social distancing rules.

Thursday 21st May 2020 - Virtual Club Night on Geological Drawing. . Viewed by 13 members on Facebook.

Sunday 24th May 2020 - the Quaternary and Chalk Geology of Flamborough, led by Mike Horne for Yorkshire Geology Month. Cancelled because of the Covid Pandemic Lockdown.

Sunday 7th June 2020 - Rock and Fossil Roadshow at Flamborough Village Hall organised by Stuart Jones for Yorkshire Geology Month. Cancelled because of the Covid Pandemic Lockdown.

Thursday 18th June 2020 - Virtual Club Night on gemstones and semi-precious stones. Viewed by 16 members on Facebook.

Tuesday 30th June 2020 - Mappleton led by Mike Horne. Cancelled because of the Covid Pandemic Lockdown.

Saturday 4th July 2020 - Skipsea Withow Mere led by Mike Horne. Cancelled because of the Covid Pandemic Lockdown.

Sunday 5th July 2020 - Spring Bank Cemetery led by Mike Horne.

Wednesday 8th July 2020 - Spring Bank Cemetery led by Mike Horne.

Thursday 16th July 2020 - Virtual Club Night on "Geological I Spy something beginning with B". Viewed by 16 members on Facebook.

Saturday 18th July 2020 - Rock and Fossil Roadshow* at Driffield Masonic Hall organised by Stuart Jones. Cancelled because of the Covid Pandemic Lockdown.

Thursday 6th August 2020 - pop-up field meeting at Skipsea led by Mike Horne. Attended by 4 members (limited to a maximum of 6 by pandemic rules).

Thursday 6th August 2020 - Virtual Club Night on Rocks and fossils as household ornaments.

Thursday 27th August 2020 - Virtual Club Night on Holderness Erratics.

Saturday 29th August 2020 - Rock and Fossil Roadshow* at Hornsea Museum. Event cancelled because the Museum was closed due to the Covid pandemic.

Thursday 10th September 2020 - Virtual Club Night on something beginning with "C".

Sunday 20th September 2020 - Bisat Research Group at Skipsea - training on geological logging led by Graham Kings and Mike Horne. Attended by 6 members.

Thursday 24th September 2020 - Virtual Club Night on "Building Stones".

Tuesday 29th September 2020 - Keyingham Gravel Pit led by Mike Horne. Attended by 6 members and friends.

Monday 12th October 2020 - Northern Cemetery led by Mike Horne. Attended by 5 members and friends.

Thursday 15th October 2020 - South Ferriby foreshore led by Mary Howard and Mike Horne.

Monday 19th October 2020 - Bisat Research Group at Barmston - training on geological logging led by Graham Kings and Mike Horne.

Thursday 22nd October 2020 - Virtual Club Night on something beginning with "D".

October/November 2020 – virtual Committee Meeting.

Saturday 7th November 2020 - Morning building stones walk for the Geologists' Association Festival of Geology led by Mike Horne. Cancelled because of the Covid Pandemic Lockdown.

Sunday 8th November 2020 - Morning grave stones walk for the Geologists' Association Festival of Geology led by Mike Horne. Attended by 2 members (the maximum allowed under Covid restrictions).

Thursday 12th November 2020 - evening lecture by Jonathon Dean of Hull University. Cancelled because of the Covid Pandemic Lockdown.

Sunday 22^nd November 2020 – virtual Committee meeting by e-mail.

Thursday 26th November 2020 - Virtual Club Night on something geological beginning with "E".

Thursday 3rd December 2020 - Virtual Club Night on “memories of HGS field meetings”. Attended by six members,

Thursday 10th December 2020 - evening lecture by Dr Eddie Dempsey of Hull University on the geology of the Scottish Highlands, Cancelled because of the Covid Pandemic Lockdown.

Thursday 17th December 2020 – virtual lecture David Hill on "The Volcanoes of Sicily and the Aeolian islands". Attended by 16 members.

Friday 8th January 2021 - Virtual Club Night on Dinosaurs.

Thursday 21st January 2021 - evening lecture by Bryony Caswell of Hull University. Cancelled because of the Covid Pandemic Lockdown.

Wednesday 27th January 2021 – virtual lecture by John Connor on Geomorphological Aspects of the San Andreas Fault. Attended by 21 members and guests.

Tuesday 3rd February 2021 - virtual lecture by Professor Patrick Boylan on "New light on the Neanderthals: music, rope-making and now an apparent genetic link to Coronavirus". Attended by 75 members and guests.

Thursday 4th February 2021 - "Geology in Hull" led by Mike Horne.  Attended by 2 people under social distancing rules.

Thursday 11th February 2021 - virtual lecture by Mike Horne on "the Geology beneath Hull". Attended by 24 members and guests.

Wednesday 24th February 2021 - virtual seminar on Fossilisation chaired by Mike Horne. Attended by 16 members and guests.

Thursday 25th February 2021 - Virtual Club Night on "something geological beginning with F". Attended by 16 members.

Thursday 11th March 2021 - virtual lecture by David Hill on "The geology of southern Sweden". Attended by 21 members and friends.

Thursday 18th March 2021 - Annual General Meeting - virtual meeting with postal ballot: 23 members participated.

Thursday 25th March 2021 – Virtual Members' Evening, including talks by  Helen Kitson on Keyingham Gravel Pit, Arthur Speed on "Churches big and small" and Mike Horne on South Ferriby Foreshore. Attended by 22 members and friends.

Thursday 8th April 2021- virtual lecture by Mike Horne on "the University of Hull Type Erratics Collection". Attended by 25 members and friends.

Friday 16th April 2021 - Bisat Research Group field meeting on the Holderness Coast.

Friday 16th April 2021 - Virtual Club Night on "Sedimentary structures". Viewed by 18 members on Facebook.

Wednesday 21st April 2021 - virtual Seminar by John Connor and Mike Horne on "The cobble churches of Holderness". Attended by 17 members.

Thursday 29th April 2021 - South Ferriby Foreshore research fieldwork led by Mary Howard and Mike Horne. Attended by 6 members (the maximum allowed under Covid restrictions).

Wednesday 12th May 2021 - virtual lecture by John Connor on "The Use of Geophysics for Marine Archaeology”. Attended by 15 members and friends.

Friday 14th May 2021 - Bisat Research Group field meeting on the Holderness Coast.

Friday 28th May 2021 - Virtual Club Night on "something geological beginning with G". Viewed by 19 members on Facebook.

Wednesday 2nd June 2021 – virtual lecture by Paul Hildreth on Middlegate Quarry, South Ferriby. Attended by 17 members and friends.

Saturday 12^th June 2021 – Barmston led by Arthur Speed. Attended by 8 members.

Sunday 20th June 2021 - Rifle Butts SSSI conservation led by Stuart Jones and Mike Horne. Attended by 9 members.

Monday 21st June 2021 - Northern Cemetery led by Mike Horne. Attended by 2 members.

Wednesday 7th July 2021 – virtual Committee Meeting.

Wednesday 28th July 2021 - virtual Seminar on “Reading the Landscape” chaired by Mike Horne and including slideshows by John Connor, David Hill and Mike Horne. Attended by  members.

Sunday 8th August 2021 - New Year Picnic (re-arranged) at Withernsea led by Mike Horne. Attended by 5 members.

Wednesday 11th August 2021 - Bisat Research Group field meeting at Withernsea. Attended by 6 members.

Wednesday 11th August 2021 - Virtual Members' Evening on "Why Geology (what inspired you to become a geologist)?". Attended by 6 members.

Thursday 12th August 2021 - members only visit to Hull’s Dinostar Museum. Attended by 4 members.

Thursday 19th August 2021 - Virtual Club Night on "something geological beginning with H".

Wednesday 25th August 2021 – virtual lecture by John Connor on "Old-fashioned Seismic in Mesopotamia”. Attended by 5 members.

Sunday 29th August 2021 - Hull General Cemetery led by Mike Horne. Attended by 4 members.

Tuesday 21st September 2021 - Mappleton led by Mike Horne. Attended by 11 members.

Wednesday 22nd September 2021 - Bisat Research Group field meeting at Withernsea. Attended by 4 members.

Thursday 7th October 2021 - Virtual Club Night on "something geological beginning with I".

Thursday 21st October 2021 - virtual lecture by Arthur Speed on "A virtual field trip to Barmston". Attended by 10 members.

Friday 22^nd October 2021 – building stones walk led by Mike Horne for the re-arranged Yorkshire Geology Month. Cancelled because the leader was ill.

Thursday 4th November 2011 - Committee Meeting.

Thursday 18th November 2021 – virtual Club Night on "my favourite geological places". Attended by 6 members.

Thursday 2^nd December 2021 – virtual lecture by Sam Griffiths of CITIZAN. Abandoned due to technical problems.

Thursday 16th December 2021 - Virtual Club Night on "something geological beginning with J".

Wednesday 5th January 2022 - New Year Picnic at Withernsea led by Mike Horne. Attended by 10 members.

Thursday 6th January 2022 – virtual lecture by Mike Horne on "the Boulder Clays of Holderness". Attended by 23 members and friends.

Thursday 27th January 2022 - Virtual Club Night on "something geological beginning with K".

Thursday 3^rd February 2022 – virtual lecture by Mike Horne on “Geology in the Cemetery: Arnos Vale”. Postponed because the speaker was ill.

Thursday 24th February 2022 - Bryony Caswell of Hull University on "Ocean seafloors past, present and future: benthic responses to environmental change".

Thursday 3rd March 2022 - Virtual Club Night on "something geological beginning with L".

Thursday 17th March 2022 - AGM and David Hill on "the Ammonites of Ilminster". Attended by 14 members and guests.

Wednesday 23rd March 2022 - Bisat Research Project at South Landing led by Graham Kings.

Friday 25th to Monday 28th March 2022 - weekend field trip to Anglesey led by David Hill.

Wednesday 13th April 2022 – virtual lecture by John Connor on "Mud Volcanoes of the South Caspian Sea”. Attended by 12 members.

Thursday 21^st April 2021 – lecture by Graham Kings. Cancelled because the Secretary was ill.

Thursday 28th April 2022 - Wold Newton, Lincolnshire, geology and scenic walk led by Martin Longshaw. Attended by 2 members.

Thursday 12th May 2022 - Club Night on "Curiosities and Treasures". Attended by 12 members.

Saturday 14th May 2022 – display at Yorkshire Geology Day at Caphouse Colliery by David Hill.

Sunday 15th May 2022 - Hull Cemetery led by Mike Horne for Yorkshire Geology Month. Attended by 2 members.

Thursday 26th May 2022 - Virtual Club Night on "Vertebrate Fossils". Viewed by 15 members.

Thursday 9th June 2022 - Virtual Club Night on "something geological beginning with M".

Sunday 3rd July 2022 - Rock and Fossil Roadshow at Flamborough Village Hall, organised by Stuart Jones, with displays by Jack and Brenda Almond, David Hill and Stuart Jones.

Thursday 14^th July 2022 – Virtual Club Night on "something geological beginning with N".

Saturday 16th July 2022 - Rifle Butts SSSI conservation and social event led by Stuart Jones and Mike Horne. Attended by 10 members.

Wednesday 20th July 2022 - virtual lecture by John Connor on "More Chert than You Can Shake a Stick At". Attended by 14 members and guests.

Saturday 30th July 2022 - East Riding Boulder Committee field meeting on the Holderness Coast led by Mike Horne.

Monday 1st August 2022 – virtual lecture by Mike Horne on “Rocks in the Cemetery: Arnos Vale”. Attended by 10 members and guests.

Friday 19^th August 2022 - “Driffield Mortimer Walk” led by Rodger Connell. Postponed.

Thursday 25^th August 2022 – Virtual Club Night on "something geological beginning with O". Viewed by 22 members on Facebook.

Saturday 27th August 2022 - Roadshow at Hornsea Museum with displays by Lewis Rose, Jack and Brenda Almond, and Stuart Jones.

Saturday 10th and Sunday 11^th September 2022 - HGS displays and field trips at the Geologists' Association Annual Conference in Hull. The theme for the conference was a celebration of the extraordinary palaeontological discoveries made in the UK over recent years. Displays -  Erratic Fossils from Withernsea by Brenda and Jack Almond; “The snail’s tale” poster by Arthur Speed about lake deposits at Barmston; “Large flints from Lincolnshire and the paramoudra debate” poster and large specimen by Paul Hildreth; “The lost Jurassic of South Ferriby” poster and specimens by Mick Oates; Juvenile elephants’ teeth from Flamborough Head by Martyn Pedley and Stuart Jones; Beaver hair from Skipsea Withow Mere by Rodger Connell and Stuart Jones; Erratics from the Holderness Coast by Stuart Jones; Photographs of Hull Geological Society field meetings by Stuart Jones; Vertebrates from the Kelsey Hill Gravels by Jim and Stephen Whitaker. Field trips - Middlegate Quarry, South Ferriby field trip attended by about 14 people, led by Mick Oates; Urban geology walk in Hull led by Mike Horne attended by 9 people; self-guided trip to Skipsea using notes by Mike Horne attended by 3 people.

Wednesday 14th September 2022 – virtual lecture by John Connor on "Geology of Red Rock Canyon, Nevada”. Attended by 11 members,

Thursday 29th September 2022 - Virtual Club Night on "something geological beginning with P".

Saturday 8th October 2022 - Skipsea led by Mike Horne. Attended by 8 members.

Thursday 13th October 2022 - Committee Meeting.

Thursday 3rd November 2022 - Virtual Club Night on "something geological beginning with Q".

Wednesday 9th November 2022 – virtual lecture by Mike Horne on the "Rocks under Kingston upon Hull". Attended by 16 members.

Wednesday 16th November 2022 - virtual lecture by John Connor on "Yorks/Lincs/Norfolk Coastal Erosion - Compare & Contrast". Attended by 15 members and guests.

Wednesday 7th December 2022 - virtual seminar chaired by John Connor and Mike Horne "Coastal Erosion and climate change in East Yorkshire". Attended by 15 members.

Thursday 15th December 2022 – virtual Quiz Night with question rounds set by Terry Rockett, Mary Howard and Mike Horne. Attended by 8 members and guests.

Thursday 29th December 2022 - Virtual Club Night on "something geological beginning with R".

Wednesday 4th January 2023 - virtual seminar with Mike Horne on "Dealing with Diamicts". Attended by 14 members.

Wednesday 11th January 2023 - virtual lecture by John Connor on "Bay Area Exotics". Attended by 15 members.

Wednesday 8th February 2023 - virtual workshop with Mike Horne on "cataloguing and caring for your collection". Attended by 8 members,

Thursday 23rd February 2023 - Club Night on Sedimentary Rocks. Attended by 12 members.

Saturday 25th February 2023 - field meeting and picnic at Mappleton led by David Hill and Mary Howard. Attended by 12 members.

Thursday 9th March 2023 - Virtual Club Night on "something geological beginning with S".

Wednesday 15th March 2023 - virtual lecture by John Connor on "The Geology & History of Point Reyes, California". Attended by 6 members.

Thursday 16th March 2023 - Annual General Meeting and Graham Kings on “the Terras de Cavaleiros Geopark in northern Portugal”. Attended by 12 members.

Saturday 15th April 2023 - Middlegate Quarry led by Mick Oates and Mike Horne.  Attended by 15 members and guests.

Thursday 20th April 2023 - Paul Hildreth on “the Birds and Rocks of Flamborough Head”. Attended by 6 members.

Sunday 30th April 2023 - Urban geology walk led by Mike Horne for Yorkshire Geology Month. Attended by 4 people.

Wednesday 3rd May 2023 - virtual lecture by Tony Felski on “Coal” for  Yorkshire Geology Month. Attended by 16 people.

Thursday 4th May 2023 - Rocks in the Cemetery walk in Western Cemetery led by Mike Horne for Yorkshire Geology Month. Attended by 6 people.

Sunday 7th May 2023 - Rifle Butts SSSI conservation led by Stuart Jones and Mike Horne, attended by six members.

Thursday 8th June 2023 - Virtual Club Night on "something geological beginning with T".

Wednesday 21st June 2023 - virtual lecture by Niall Clarke of Barnsley U3A on "The Granite Intrusion of Galway, Ireland". Attended by 21 members and guests.

Sunday 2nd July 2023 - Rock and Fossil Roadshow at Flamborough Village Hall organised by Stuart Jones with displays by Paul Hildreth, Stuart Jones, Jack and Brenda Almond, and Lorraine Behrens.

Thursday 20th July 2023 - virtual lecture by Paul Hildreth on Hyenas of Kirkdale Cave. Attended by 17 members.

Thursday 27th July 2023 - Club Night on the Jurassic. Attended by 15 members,

Tuesday 8th August 2023 - virtual lecture by Mike Horne on "an Introduction to the Geology of East Yorkshire" as part of our 135th Anniversary celebrations. Attended by 19 members,

Monday 14th August 2023 - Keyingham Quarry led by Stephen Whitaker and Mike Horne as part of our 135th Anniversary celebrations. Attended by 12 members,

Sunday 20th August 2023 - East Riding Boulder Committee at Mappleton led by Mike Horne as part of our 135th Anniversary celebrations. Attended by 6 members,

Thursday 24th August 2023 – Members’ Evening as part of our 135th Anniversary celebrations with contributions from Dennis Haughey, Mike Horne, Mary Howard, Chris Leach, Graham Evans, Brenda and Jack Almond and Jan Robson.

Saturday 26th August 2023 - Rock and Fossil Roadshow at Hornsea Museum organised by Jack and Brenda Almond with displays by Jack and Brenda Almond, and Loraine Behrens.

Saturday 2nd September 2023 - South Ferriby Foreshore led by Mary Howard and Mike Horne. Attended by 9 members.

Thursday 14th September 2023 - Virtual Club Night on "something geological beginning with V".

Thursday 28th September 2023 - Club Night on "benthic". Attended by 7 members.

Saturday 7th October 2023 - guided tour of the Yorkshire Natural History Museum in Sheffield.

Sunday 15th October 2023 - Middlegate Quarry led by Paul Hildreth and Mike Horne. Attended by 15 members and guests.

Thursday 26th October 2023 - Club Night on the Palaeozoic. Attended by 9 members.

Monday 6^th November 2023 – virtual Committee Meeting.

Thursday 30th November 2023 - Nemi Walding of Hull University on "The Pyroclastic Density Current Problem". Attended by 15 members.

Thursday 21st December 2023 - Quiz Night. Attended by 14 members.

Saturday 30th December 2023 - New Year walk and picnic at Withernsea led by Jack and Brenda Almond. Attended by 7 members.

Thursday 4th January 2024 - Virtual Club Night on "something geological beginning with W".

Thursday 11th January 2024 - Club Night on "Patterns in the Rocks". Attended by 9 members.

Thursday 25th January 2024 – virtual Fossil Focus Seminar with Mike Horne.

Thursday 1st February 2024 - virtual lecture by Tony Felski on "The Geology of the Italian Part of Lake Maggiore."  Attended by 15 members.

Thursday 8th February 2024 - virtual Fossil Focus Seminar with Mike Horne.

Thursday 15th February 2024 - Club Night on Minerals. Attended by 17 members.

Thursday 22nd February 2024 - virtual Fossil Focus Seminar with Mike Horne.

Thursday 29th February 2024 - Anna Bird of the University of Hull on "Why does it rain in the desert? The dust record in Tunisia". Attended by 16 members.

Thursday 7th March 2024 - virtual Fossil Focus Seminar with Mike Horne.

Thursday 14th March 2024 - AGM and Prof Mark Bateman of the University of Sheffield on “Yorkshire: a land of ice and water in the Late Quaternary”. Attended by 16 members and 15 sent their apologies.

Thursday 4th April 2024 - Virtual Club Night on "something geological beginning with X".

Thursday 11th April 2024 - Society Dinner to celebrate the Secretary's 40th Anniversary as an Officer of the HGS.

Sunday 14th April 2024 - display at Dinostar Museum on Humber Street in Hull organised by Mary Howard with displays by Graham Evans, Mary Howard and Lorraine Behrens.

Thursday 25th April 2024 - Club Night on Corals. Attended by 14 members.

Friday 26th April 2024 - South Landing led by Mike Horne. Attended by 5 members.

All of May 2024 - “East Yorkshire Rocks” virtual photographic exhibition, part of Yorkshire Geology Month. 33 images viewed by over 200 people.

Sunday 5th May 2024 - "Rocks in the City" in Hull city centre led by Mike Horne for Yorkshire Geology Month. Attended by 5 people.

Saturday 11th May 2024 - exhibition for the Yorkshire Society at Hull Minster organised by Mary Howard.

Wednesday 22nd May 2024 - virtual lecture by Mike Horne on "Rocks under the City" for Yorkshire Geology Month.attended by 17 people.

Friday 24th May 2024 - "Rocks in the Cemetery" led by Mike Horne for Yorkshire Geology Month. Attended by 3 people.

Saturday 25th May 2024 - Speeton led by David Hill. Attended by 6 members.

Wednesday 5th June 2024 – virtual lecture by John Connor on "Moughton & the Elusive Unconformity - Searching for the angular contact between the Silurian metamorphics and the Great Scar Limestone". Attended by 12 members.

Sunday 9th June 2024 - Skipsea Withow led by Mike Horne. Attended by 8 members.

Sunday 23rd June 2024 - visit to the Barrow Upon Humber Geology Museum organised by Mick Oates. Visited by 4 members.

Thursday 27th June 2024 - Tom Hose of Bristol University on "Wealden RIGS and the history of geoconservation". Attended by 8 members and guests.

Sunday 30th June 2024 - Rock and Fossil Roadshow at Flamborough Village Hall organised by Stuart Jones with displays by Dinostar Museum, Brenda and Jack Almond, Lorraine Behrens, Mary Howard and Stuart Jones.

Thursday 18th July 2024 - Virtual Club Night on "something geological beginning with Y".

Sunday 8th August 2024 - Scunthorpe Ironstone Quarry led by Paul Hildreth. Attended by 11 members and guests.

Sunday 19th August 2024 - roadshow at the Withernsea Carnival, organised by Jack and Brenda Almond with displays by Jack and Brenda Almond, David Hill, Mary Howard and Stuart Jones

Thursday 22nd August 2024 - Club Night on Metamorphic rocks with talks by Terry Rockett, John Connor, Stuart Jones and Mike Horne. And displays of specimens by Jack and Brenda Almond, John Connor, Jane Ibrahim, Graham Evans and Mike Horne. Attended by 13 members.

Saturday 24th August 2024 - Rock and Fossil Roadshow at Hornsea Museum with displays by Jack and Brenda Almond, Lewis Rose and Stuart Jones, and with Mick Oates, Mike Horne, Rosy Barwell and Terry Rocket on the “finds Desk”.

Wednesday 28th August 2024 - virtual lecture by John Connor on "Cave Oolite, Bog Iron & Pantiles - Geologic Products from the Southwest Wolds". Attended by 15 members.

Thursday 12th September 2024 - Virtual Club Night on "something geological beginning with Z". Viewed by 17 members.

Thursday 26th September 2024 - Club Night on Volcanic rocks. Attended by 14 members and guests.

Monday 7th October 2024 - field trip to Llandudno organised by Jan Robson. Cancelled.

Tuesday 8th October 2024 - Laura Burrel Garcia of the British Geological Survey on "Geological Mapping of the Yorkshire Wolds Chalk aquifer”. Attended by 12 members.

Thursday 10th October 2024 - virtual lecture by Mick Oates on "All about Ammonites". Attended by 13 members.

Thursday 24th October 2024 - "Finds Night". Attended by 7 members.

Thursday 14th November 2024 - Club Night on Crystals. Attended by 11 members.

Thursday 21st November 2024 - virtual lecture by Tony Felski on "The Permian Geology of the Wakefield district". Attended by 14 members and guests.

Wednesday 4th December 2024 - Committee meeting.

Thursday 12th December 2024 - Quiz Night. Attended by 13 members.

Thursday 2nd January 2025 - Virtual Club Night on "pebbles". 

Wednesday 15th January 2025 – virtual lecture by John Connor on "Mt Lassen & Other Volcanoes of the Southern Cascades". 

Thursday 16th January 2025 - Club Night on Erratics with a talk by Mike Horne and displays by Graham Evans and Mary Howard. Attended by 9 members.

Wednesday 19th February 2025 - virtual lecture by John Connor on "the Building Stones of Holderness". Attended by 11 members and guests.

Thursday 13th February 2025 - Club Night on "I used to know that! " using questions from recent GCSE and A Level geology.

Thursday 13th March 2025 - Annual General Meeting, followed by Peter Halkon of Hull University on “The changing Landscape of the Foulness Valley, East Yorkshire”. Attended by 24 members and guests.

Friday 14th March 2025 – virtual lecture by Mike Horne on “the geology of East Yorkshire”, joint meeting with Saltburn U3A. Attended by 26 people.

Wednesday 19th March - virtual lecture by John Connor on "Addendum to the Elusive Unconformity".  Attended by 12 members and guests.

Friday 11th April 2025 - display at Dinostar in Humber Street in Hull, organised by Mary Howard.

Saturday 12th April 2025 - Upton Railway Cutting and South Elmsall Quarry, led by Rick Ramsdale. Attended by 9 members and guests.

Wednesday 16th April 2025 – virtual lecture by Mike Horne on the geology in and around Llandudno. Watched by 10 members.

Thursday 24th April 2025 - Paul Hildreth on "Lincolnshire Ironstones" for Yorkshire Geology Month.  Attended by 7 members.

Wednesday 7th May 2025 – virtual lecture by Mike Horne on “Tom Sheppard – Hull's Hyperscientist” for Yorkshire Geology Month. Attended by 13 people.

Sunday 11th May 2025 - "Rocks in the Cemetery" led by Mike Horne for Yorkshire Geology Month. Attended by 7 people.

Friday 23rd May 2025 - scenic walk around Wold Newton, Lincolnshire, led by Martin Longshaw for Yorkshire Geology Month. Attended by 5 people. 

Sunday 25th May 2025 - Hornsea led by Brenda and Jack Almond for Yorkshire Geology Month. Attended by 10 people.

Wednesday 18th June 2025 – virtual Club Night on "My Oldest Rocks".

Thursday 3rd July 2025 - Philip Vixsebroxse of Cambridge University on “fossilisation at the dawn of animal life”. Attended by 25 members and guests.

Thursday 21st August 2025 - The Big Summer Quiz Night organised by Terry Rockett. Attended by 12 members.

Saturday 23rd August 2025 - Roadshow at Hornsea Museum organised by Lewis Rose, with displays by Mary Howard, Jack and Brenda Almont, Mick Oates and David Whipp and with Rosie Barwell and Mike Horne on the “Finds Desk”.

Thursday 25th September 2025 - Scarborough area led by Mary Howard and Mike Horne.

Wednesday 15th October 2025 – virtual lecture by John Connor on "the history of brickmaking".

Wednesday 22nd October 2025 - Zoom talk by Chris Darmon of Geosupplies on “Rare Earth Elements and the Ukraine Hoax”.

Thursday 23rd October 2025 - Club Night the topic is Crystals and crystallography.

Thursday 13th November 2025 - lecture by Dr Kristian Saether on a new volume of the Treatise.

Wednesday 19^th November 2025 - Virtual quiz by Mike Horne

Thursday 27th November 2025 - Club Night the topic is Jurassic.

Thursday 18th December 2025 - Festive Quiz Night.

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