Humberside Geologist no 18

A history of the Hull Geological Society from 1984 to 2025

by Mike Horne FGS

Appendix 5

Hull Geological Society meetings 1984 to 1993

Thursday 13^th January 1983 – Brian Waugh of Hull University on “Sandstones through the looking glass”.

Thursday 10^th February 1983 – Thomas Fletcher of the British Geological Survey on “the geological mapping of South Humberside”.

Thursday 10^th March 1983 – AGM and Prof John Neale of Hull University on “some evolutionary problems”.

Summer Programme 1983 meetings not listed here.

Thursday 27^th October 1983 - Trevor Ford of the University of Leicester on “the geology of the Grand Canyon”.

Thursday 10^th November 1983 - Charlie David of the Flamborough Heritage Coast Project on “the Flamborough Headland Heritage Coast”.

Thursday 8^th December 1983 - Prof Ansell Dunham of Hull University on “the geology and mineralogy of brickmaking at Broomfleet”.

Thursday 19^th January 1983 - Martin Brasier of Hull University with a microfossils demonstration.

Friday 27^th January 1984 – Committee meeting in Cottingham.

Thursday 9^th February 1984 - Members’ Evening. Contributions included fossils from the Lower Jurassic and Kellaways, plus Silurian material from Gotland by the Geology Department; fossils from the Chalk by Felix Whitham; Palaeozoic rocks of North Somerset by Mike Horne; slide show of rocks in Scotland, Anglesey and the Alps by Mr R J Davies; the Ipswichian buried cliff at Hessle by Mike Horne on behalf of Kenneth Fenton; cave paintings at Lascaux in France by Lynden Emery.

Thursday 8^th March 1984 - AGM and John H Powell of the Institute of Geological Sciences in Leeds on “Jurassic environments in the Yorkshire Basin”.

Friday 16^th March 1984 - Committee meeting in Cottingham.

Sunday 18^th March 1984 – Speeton led by Lynden Emery.

Wednesday 16^th May 1984 – first planning meeting for the Centenary Chalk Project.

Sunday 20^th May 1984 – Forge Valley led by Felix Whitham.

Saturday 2^nd June 1984 – field trip to Kirton Lindsey.

Wednesday 20^th June 1984 – Atwick led by Sheila Rogers.

Wednesday 27^th June 1984 – Bainton Chalk Pit led by Felix Whitham.

Saturday 30^th June 1984 – Camblethorpe open cast coal mine near Leeds, organised by Tony Gear.

Saturday 22^nd July 1984 – Scunthorpe ironstone mines.

Sunday 15^th July 1984 – Gristhorpe Bay led by Ken Fenton.

Sunday 9^th September 1984 - Enthorpe Railway Cutting and Naffferton Chalk Pit led by Felix Whitham.

Sunday 7^th October 1984 – field trip to Newbald area

Thursday 18^th October1984 – M S Money of Newcastle University on “Coastal landslips in Yorkshire”.

Thursday 8^th November 1984 – Henry Emeleus of Durham University on  ”the growth and decay of the Rhum Tertiary volcano”.

Thursday 6^th December 1984 - Richard Aldridge of Nottingham University on ”the long tale of the conodont animal”.

Thursday 17^th January 1985 – Prof Michael House of Hull University on “Environmental controls on Evolution”.

Friday 1^st February 1985 – Committee meeting.

Thursday 14^th February 1985 – Derek Siveter of Hull University on “the Silurian of the Soviet Union”.

Thursday 14^th March 1985 – AGM and Prof Barry Dawson of Sheffield University on Diamonds.

Sunday 29^th May 1985 – Nettleton area led by Richard Young of Hull University.

Sunday 8^th June 1985 – Scalby and Cloughton led by Ken Fenton.

Wednesday 8^th June 1985 – Chalk of the Bridlington area led by Richard Myerscough.

Sunday 14^th July 1985 – Carsington Pasture Mine led by Sheila Rogers.

Sunday 14^th September 1985 – Malton area led by Felix Whitham.

Thursday 10^th October 1985 – Members’ evening with talks by Tim Schadla-Hall of Hull Museums on Thomas Sheppard and Mike Horne on “the geology of Pearson Park”; plus displays of  fossils from Newbald and South Cave by Felix Whitham, pebbles from the Buddleigh Salterton Pebble Bed by Ron Harrison, Erratics of the Holderness Coast by Dave Finer, Speeton Clay Fossils by Ian Alexander, Tuffs from Italy by Judith Bryce, the Geology of Jersey by Mike Horne, Chalk fossils from the Yorkshire Wolds by the Centenary Project Group.

Thursday 14^th November 1985 – Dr L Richards of the Nature Conservancy Council on “the Geological Conservation work of the Nature Conservancy Council”.

Thursday 28^th November 1985 – C W (Willy) Wright on “A century of Yorkshire Chalk”.

Thursday 12^th December 1985– Steve Temperley of Hull University on “Aspects of geophysics and structural geology of the Highlands of Scotland”.

Thursday 16^th January 1986 – Martyn Pedley of Hull University on “Blue Holes and the Mid-Med Miocene”.

Friday 7^th February 1986 – Committee meeting.

Thursday 13^th February 1986 - Peter Crowther of Leicester Museum on “In search of the Graptolite zooid”.

Thursday 13^th March 1986 – AGM and Paul Seldon of Manchester University on “the Natural History of a Silurian sea-scorpion”.

Sunday 11^th April 1986 – Speeton led by Ian Alexander.

Saturday 17^th May 1986 – Robin Hood’s Bay led by Richard Young and Jim Wood of Hull University.

Sunday 29^th June 1986 – Derbyshire led by Sheila Rogers.

Saturday 19^th July 1986 – Malton area led by Felix Whitham.

Saturday 6^th September 1986 – South Ferriby led by Mike Horne and Felix Whitham.

Saturday 20^th September 1986 – Quaternary gravels of Holderness led by Sheila Rogers.

Friday 24^th October 1986 – the first Kenneth Fenton Memorial lecture by David Milling on “Investigations of the Market Weighton anomaly”.

Thursday 13^th November 1986 – Andy Eavis (cave explorer from Hessle) on “Chinese caves in 3D”.

Thursday 11^th December 1986 – Jim Best of Hull University on “Aspects of fluvial sedimentation in the Americas”.

Thursday 15^th January 1987 – Richard Middleton of Hull University on “the electronic hammer”. Attended by 6 members.

Friday 6^th February 1987 - Committee Meeting

Thursday 12^th February 1987 - David Siveter of Leicester University on “Ostracoda across the Iapetus Ocean”.

Thursday 12^th March 1987 – AGM and Jack Soper of Sheffield University on “Late Caledonian tectonics of Northern England”.

Saturday 4^th April 1987 – East Riding Boulder Committee field meeting at Cowden led by Richard Myerscough. Attended by 18 members.

Saturday 2^nd May 1987 – Cayton Bay led by Felix Whitham. Attended by 9 members.

Saturday 6^th June 1987 – Leicester Museum by minibus led by Patrick Boylan. Attended by 11 members.

Thursday 9^th July 1987 – Committee meeting.

Saturday 18^th July 1987 – South Ferriby Middlegate Quarry led by Mike Horne and Felix Whitham. Attended by 8 members.

Sunday 27^th September 1987 - Rosedale led by Lynden Emery.

Thursday 15^th October 1987 – the Kenneth Fenton Memorial lecture by George de Boer on “the evolution of Spurn Point”.

Thursday 12^th November 1987 – Dr J Wadsworth of Manchester University on “Evolution of large basaltic shield volcanoes”.

Thursday 10^th December 1987– Peter Scott of Hull University on the “mineral resources of northern England”.

Thursday 14^th January 1988 – Mark Piasecki of Hull University on “Terrane boundaries on both sides of the Proto-Atlantic”.

Friday 29^th January 1988 – Committee meeting.

Thursday 18^th February 1988 – Members’ evening including a demonstration of the University’s flume tank by Jim Best, talks on the geology of Lanzarotte by Lynden Emery, a progress report on the Centenary Chalk Project by Felix Whitham and the preparation of microfossils by Mike Horne, and displays of  photographs of recent field meetings by Mike Horne,  Jurassic ammonites by Felix Whitham and erratics from the Yorkshire coast by Jean and Ron Harrison.

Thursday 17^th March 1988 – AGM and Richard Myerscough on “Yorkshire Wolds earthquakes”. Followed by a Committee meeting.

Friday 15^th April 1988 – Committee meeting in Cottingham.

Saturday 7^th May 1988 – Rifle Butts SSSI first conservation visit. Attended by 10 members.

Sunday 15^th May 1988 – East Ayton led by Sheila Rogers.

Saturday 21^st May 1988 – Cornwall Open Cast Coal Mine near Leeds.

Saturday 4^th June 1988 – The Centenary Symposium :– “A century of geology in Hull” by Mike Horne read by Lynden Emery, Ted and Willy Wright on “East Yorkshire contributions to Cretaceous palaeontology”, Patrick Boylan on “the history of the study of glacial erratics from East Yorkshire”, Alistair Lomax on “Speeton Clay Ostracods” and Pete Rawson on “the Speeton Clay 100 years after Lamplugh”. Posters and displays – Hull Museums photographs from the C W Mason collection; Hull Museums Jurassic fossil plants from the Kenneth Fenton Collection; Mike Horne posters about the history of the HGS and the Centenary Chalk Project; photographs of field meetings by Ron Harrison, Tony Gear, Lynden Emery and Mike Horne; dinosaur footprints from the Yorkshire coast by the Geology Department; erratics from the Flamborough area collected by the East Riding Boulder Committee; poster on “introducing the study of microfossils” by Mike Horne; Yorkshire Chalk fossils by the Centenary Chalk Project, Yorkshire fossils by Felix Whitham and Yorkshire fossils by Mike Horne. Centenary Dinner in the dinner with guest speaker John Neale.

Saturday 8^th June 1988 – family day at Hornsea led by Ron Harrison.

Wednesday 29^th June 1988 – Capper Pass Smelting Works at Melton. Attended by 13 members.

Sunday 16^th July 1988 – Filey Brigg led by Felix Whitham. Attended by 13 members.

Sunday 4^th September 1988 – building stones of Hull led by Ron Harrison and Mike Horne.

Saturday 1^st October 1988 – conservation visit to Rifle Butts SSSI led by Lynden Emery.

Sunday 9^th October 1988 – North Ferriby led by Lynden Emery.

Thursday 20^th October 1988 – the Kenneth Fenton Memorial lecture by Martin Brasier of Hull University on “the Evolution of Man”.

Thursday 17^th November 1988 – Hazel Prichard of the Open University on “platinum exploration in Shetland”.

Thursday 8^th December 1988 – Steve Temperley of Hull University on “large scale tectonic processes in the Karakorum Mountains, Northwest Pakistan”.

Thursday 19^th January 1989 – Arthur Fraser of Hull University on “the cream of Norwegian geology”.

Friday 27^th January 1989 - Committee meeting.

Thursday 16^th February 1989 – Murray Mitchell of the British Geological Survey on ”geology and communication routes of the southern Lake District”.

Thursday 16^th March 1989 – AGM and Lynden Emery on “life in the Lower Cretaceous Speeton Clay sea”.

Saturday 8^th April 1989 – Rifle Butts SSSI conservation visit.

Saturday 22^nd April 1989 - Speeton led by Lynden Emery.

Saturday 20^th May 1989 – Garrowby area led by Richard Myerscough.

Wednesday 4^th June 1989 – Aldborough led by Terry Rockett.

Saturday 10^th June 1989 – Staithes and Port Mulgrave led by Tony Gear.

Thursday 29th June 1989 – Brantingham led by Terry Rockett. Attended by 9 members.

Sunday 16^th July 1989 – Leadenham, Northamptonshire, led by Alan Dawn and Sheila Rogers. Attended by 14 members.

Sunday 17^th September 1989 - building stones of Hull led by Ron Harrison and Mike Horne.

Saturday 30^th September 1989 – visit to the Phoenix Project excavation site in Albion Street.

Saturday 7^th October 1989 – Caphouse Colliery mining museum led by Tony Benfield.

Thursday 12^th October 1989 – Miss J Cousens on “flint and chert in the UK”

Sunday 15^th October 1989 – Rifle Butts SSSI conservation visit.

Thursday 9^th November 1989 – Prof Brian Windley of the University of Leicester on “the Antarctic-Tierra del Fuego connection”.

Thursday 14^th December 1989 – Members’ Evening at Wilberforce College with talks by Mike Horne on “Problems with Chalk Stratigraphy”, Mike Boyd on the “Phoenix Project”, and  Felix Whitham on “the use of fossils in Chalk stratigraphy”, and a display of Holderness erratics by Jean and Ron Harrison; and a demonstration of the use of weather satellites by T Buttery.

Friday 2^nd February 1990 – Committee meeting.

Thursday 15^th February 1990 – the Kenneth Fenton Memorial Lecture by Prof Michael House of Southampton University on “Environmental change and evolution”. Followed by a Committee meeting.

Thursday 15^th March 1990 – AGM and D T Kilpatrick of Humberside County Council on ”the Holderness coast protection Scheme”.

Sunday 1^st April 1990 – Rifle Butts SSSI conservation visit led by Lynden Emery. Attended by 15 members.

Saturday 28^th April 1990 – Holderness coast led by Ron Harrison.

Sunday 13^th May 1990 – Goathland led by Sheila Rogers, by minibus. Attended by 17 members.

Saturday 16^th June 1990 – Sedgewick Geological Trail near Dent by minibus led by Terry Rockett.

Friday 22^nd June 1990 – Sands Top Quarry, North Newbald, led by Mavis May followed by a barbecue.

Saturday 14^th July 1990 – East Ayton and Cayton Bay led by Richard Myerscough.

Saturday 8^th September 1990 – Vale of Pickering led by Felix Whitham.

Saturday 15^th September 1990 – South Ferriby led by Felix Whitham.

Sunday 14^th October 1990 – geological walk in Hull’s Old Town led by Ron Harrison.

Thursday 18^th October 1990 – Simon Mitchell of Liverpool University on “controls on the distribution of belemnites in the Jurassic and Cretaceous”.

Sunday 21^st October 1990 – Rifle Butts conservation visit led by Lynden Emery.

Thursday 15^th November 1990 – Maurice Tucker of Durham University on “carbonate platforms and sequence stratigraphy”.

Saturday 17^th November 1990 – South Ferriby led by Mike Horne.

Thursday 13^th December 1990 - Steve Temperley of Leicester University on “the role of Shear Zones in the crust”.

Thursday 17^th January 1991 – Members’ evening at Wyke 6^th Form College with talks by Lynden Emery on “a geological journey in New Zealand” and Ron Harrison on “pantiles, bricks and decorative stones” and a display of the Wyke College collection by Jim Darmody.

25^th January 1991 – Committee meeting.

Thursday 7th February 1991 - Patrick Boylan on “the end of uniformity? Catastrophe theories in geology – past and present”.

Thursday 28^th February 1991 – Mike Boyd on “documentation, storage and conservation of geological collections” and a demonstration on conserving geological materials by Peter Sweeney at Hull Museum’s Castle Warehouse.

Thursday 21^st March 1991 – AGM and Beverley Halstead of Imperial College and Reading University and President of he Geologists' Association on “the extinction of the dinosaurs”.

Sunday 14^th April 1991 – Rifle Butts SSSI conservation meeting.

Sunday 20^th April 1991 – Speeton led by Lynden Emery.

Saturday 18^th May 1991 – Boulder Survey at Kilnsea led by Ron Harrison. Attended by 17 members and guests.

Saturday 1^st June 1991 – South Cave Station Quarry led by Felix Whitham. Attended by 19 members and guests.

Saturday 15^th and Sunday 16^th June 1991 – joint meeting with the Yorkshire Geological Society to South Ferriby, Melton Bottoms and Flamborough Head led by Lynden Emery, Stephen Potts, Mike Horne and Felix Whitham.

Sunday 28^th July 1991 – Stoke on Trent area by minibus led by David Thompson of Keele University. Attended by 12 members.

Saturday 14^th September 1991 – Frodingham Ironstone led by Simon Knell of Scunthorpe Museum.

Sunday 29^th September 1991 – Spring Bank Cemetery led by Jim Darmody

Friday 18^th October 1991 – Reg Bradshaw of Bristol University on “the Caledonides of North Central Norway”.

Sunday 20^th October 1991 – Rifle Butts SSSI conservation visit.

Sunday 27^th October 1991 – urban geology walk in hull led by Ron Harrison and Mike Horne. Attended by 8 members and guests.

Thursday 14^th November 1991 – Mike Allderidge on “geological aspects of oil exploration and production”.

Thursday 16^th December 1991 –the Kenneth Fenton Memorial Lecture by Felix Whitham on “the Northern Chalk Succession”.

Friday 10^th January 1992 – Committee meeting.

Thursday 16^th January 1992 – Members’ Evening at the Grammar School Museum with talks by Ron Harrison on Building Materials,  Terry Rockett on extinction events, Mike Horne on Microfossils, Felix Whitham on extracting and cleaning fossils, and Claire Heyes, Donald Beveridge and Mavis May on the geology of southern France. Plus displays by Mike Horne, Felix Whitham, Hull Museums, David Hill, Gordon Lockwood and Roy and Beryl Osborn.

Thursday 20^th February 1992 – Tony Benfield on “Dynamic Iceland”.

Thursday 26^th March 1992 – AGM and David Robinson from Louth on “north-east Lincolnshire from the Wolds to the sea”.

Sunday 5^th April 1992 – Holderness Coast led by Ron Harrison; a joint meeting with York Geology Club.

Saturday 2^nd May 1992 – South Ferriby Foreshore, Humber Bridge Country Park and Hessle Foreshore led by Mike Horne and Lynden Emery. Attended by nine members.

Thursday 7^th May 1992 – Members’ evening Part 2 – Geology around Lodeve, France, by Sheila Rogers; Microfossils workshop led by Mike Horne; Chris Cone displayed ammonite erratics;  Lynden Emery displayed photographs of Lake Humber deposits.

Sunday 17^th May 1992- Rifle Butts SSSI conservation visit.

Saturday ?17^th June 1992 – field trip to Lincolnshire led by David Robinson of Louth. Attended by 9 members.

Saturday 27^th June 1992 – Beverley Queensgate Quarry led by Felix Whitham followed by a barbeque in the garden of Claire Heyes.

Sunday 5^th July 1992 – Ingleton by minibus led by Terry Rockett.

Saturday 12^th September 1992 – Kirkham Abbey area led by John Senior of Durham University.

Tuesday 13^th October 1992 – Eric Robinson of University College London and President of the Geologists’ Association on “geology in the city”.

Thursday 12^th November 1992 – Steve Temperley of Leicester University on “geology at the top of the world”.

Friday 4^th December 1992 – Peter Scott of Cambourne School of Mines on “a geologist in the Punjab and Hindu Cush”.

Thursday 14^th January 1993 – the Kenneth Fenton Memorial Lecture by John Pethick of Hull University on ”Holderness and the Humber”.

Friday 22^nd January 1993 – Committee Meeting.

Friday 29^th January 1993 – Society Dinner at the Country Park Inn at Hessle in honour of Felix Whitham being awarded an honorary degree by the University of Hull.

Thursday 11^th February1993 – Mick Stanley on “the geology of wine” at the Grammar School Museum followed by a wine tasting.

Thursday 11^th March 1993 – AGM and Paul Ensom of the Yorkshire Museum “on the tracks of Dinosaurs”. Attended by 33 members and guests.

Sunday 14^th March 1993 – Whitby. No Leader. Attended by 26 members.

Sunday 25^th April 1993 – Bainton and Nafferton Chalk pits led by Mike Horne. Attended by 9 members.

Saturday 15^th May 1993 – Gransmoor, Skipsea Withow and Barmston led by Richard Myerscough and Barry Constantine.

Saturday 19^th June 1993 – National Stone Centre in Derbyshire by minibus led by Mick Stanley. Attended by 15 members.

Friday 2^nd July 1993 – social evening.

Saturday 10^th to Monday 12^th July 1992 – An introduction to the geology of East Yorkshire led by Lynden Emery, Mike Horne and Felix Whitham as a joint meeting with the Geological Society of Norfolk.

Thursday 29^th July 1993 – Hornsea led by Terry Rockett. Attended by 12 members.

Sunday 1^st August 1993 – geology in the city led by Mike Horne for “Geology Unlimited”.

Sunday 12^th September 1993 –Spring Bank Cemetery led by Jim Darmody. Attended by 11 members.

Sunday 10^th October 1993 – Old Town Walk led by Ron Harrison.

Thursday 21^st October 1993 – Geoff Wade of Simon Petroleum Technology on “information systems – a new geological horizon”.

Thursday 9^th December 1993 – Prof Ansell Dunham of Leicester University on “bricks ancient and modern”.

Thursday 9^th December 1993 – Jack Hardisty of the University of Hull on “the Humber Observatory”.

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