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 1983 to 1993.
Thursday 13th
January 1983 – Brian Waugh of Hull University on “Sandstones through the Looking
Glass”.
Thursday 10th
February 1983 – Thomas Fletcher of the British Geological Survey on “The
Geological Mapping of South Humberside”.
Thursday 10th
March 1983 – AGM and Prof John Neale of Hull University on “Some Evolutionary
Problems”.
Summer Programme 1983 meetings not listed here.
Thursday 27th
October 1983 - Trevor Ford of the University of Leicester on “The Geology of the
Grand Canyon”.
Thursday 10th
November 1983 - Charlie David of the Flamborough Heritage Coast Project on “The
Flamborough Headland Heritage Coast”.
Thursday 8th
December 1983 - Prof Ansell Dunham of Hull University on “The Geology and
Mineralogy of Brickmaking at Broomfleet”.
Thursday 19th
January 19843 - Martin Brasier of Hull University with a microfossils
demonstration.
Friday 27th
January 1984 – Committee meeting in Cottingham.
Thursday 9th
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 8th
March 1984 - AGM and John H Powell of the Institute of Geological Sciences in
Leeds on “Jurassic Environments in the Yorkshire Basin”.
Friday 16th
March 1984 - Committee meeting in Cottingham.
Sunday 18th
March 1984 – Speeton led by Lynden Emery.
Wednesday 16th
May 1984 – first planning meeting for the Centenary Chalk Project.
Sunday 20th
May 1984 – Forge Valley led by Felix Whitham.
Saturday 2nd
June 1984 – field trip to Kirton Lindsey.
Wednesday 20th
June 1984 – Atwick led by Sheila Rogers.
Wednesday 27th
June 1984 – Bainton Chalk Pit led by Felix Whitham.
Saturday 30th
June 1984 – Camblethorpe open cast coal mine near Leeds, organised by Tony Gear.
Saturday 22nd
July 1984 – Scunthorpe ironstone mines.
Sunday 15th
July 1984 – Gristhorpe Bay led by Ken Fenton.
Sunday 9th
September 1984 - Enthorpe Railway Cutting and Naffferton Chalk Pit led by Felix
Whitham.
Sunday 7th
October 1984 – field trip to Newbald area.
Thursday 18th
October 1984 – M S Money of Newcastle University on “Coastal Landslips in
Yorkshire”.
Thursday 8th
November 1984 – Henry Emeleus of Durham University on ”The Growth and Decay of
the Rhum Tertiary Volcano”.
Thursday 6th
December 1984 - Richard Aldridge of Nottingham University on ”The Long Tale of
the Conodont Animal”.
Thursday 17th
January 1985 – Prof Michael House of Hull University on “Environmental Controls
on Evolution”.
Friday 1st
February 1985 – Committee meeting.
Thursday 14th
February 1985 – Derek Siveter of Hull University on “The Silurian of the Soviet
Union”.
Thursday 14th
March 1985 – AGM and Prof Barry Dawson of Sheffield University on Diamonds.
Sunday 29th
May 1985 – Nettleton area led by Richard Young of Hull University.
Sunday 8th
June 1985 – Scalby and Cloughton led by Ken Fenton.
Wednesday 8th
June 1985 – Chalk of the Bridlington area led by Richard Myerscough.
Sunday 14th
July 1985 – Carsington Pasture Mine led by Sheila Rogers.
Sunday 14th
September 1985 – Malton area led by Felix Whitham.
Thursday 10th
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 14th
November 1985 – Dr L Richards of the Nature Conservancy Council on “the
Geological Conservation Work of the Nature Conservancy Council”.
Thursday 28th
November 1985 – C W (Willy) Wright on “A Century of Yorkshire Chalk”.
Thursday 12th
December 1985 – Steve Temperley of Hull University on “Aspects of Geophysics and
Structural Geology of the Highlands of Scotland”.
Thursday 16th
January 1986 – Martyn Pedley of Hull University on “Blue Holes and the Mid-Med
Miocene”.
Friday 7th
February 1986 – Committee meeting.
Thursday 13th
February 1986 - Peter Crowther of Leicester Museum on “In Search of the
Graptolite Zooid”.
Thursday 13th
March 1986 – AGM and Paul Seldon of Manchester University on “the Natural
History of a Silurian Sea-Scorpion”.
Sunday 11th
April 1986 – Speeton led by Ian Alexander.
Saturday 17th
May 1986 – Robin Hood’s Bay led by Richard Young and Jim Wood of Hull
University.
Sunday 29th
June 1986 – Derbyshire led by Sheila Rogers.
Saturday 19th
July 1986 – Malton area led by Felix Whitham.
Saturday 6th
September 1986 – South Ferriby Quarry led by Mike Horne and Felix Whitham.
Saturday 20th
September 1986 – Quaternary gravels of Holderness led by Sheila Rogers.
Friday 24th
October 1986 – the first Kenneth Fenton Memorial lecture by David Milling on
“Investigations of the Market Weighton Anomaly”.
Thursday 13th
November 1986 – Andy Eavis (cave explorer from Hessle) on “Chinese Caves in 3D”.
Thursday 11th
December 1986 – Jim Best of Hull University on “Aspects of Fluvial Sedimentation
in the Americas”.
Thursday 15th
January 1987 – Richard Middleton of Hull University on “The Electronic Hammer”.
Attended by 6 members.
Friday 6th
February 1987 - Committee Meeting.
Thursday 12th
February 1987 - David Siveter of Leicester University on “Ostracoda across the
Iapetus Ocean”.
Thursday 12th
March 1987 – AGM and Jack Soper of Sheffield University on “Late Caledonian
Tectonics of Northern England”.
Saturday 4th
April 1987 – East Riding Boulder Committee field meeting at Cowden led by
Richard Myerscough. Attended by 18 members.
Saturday 2nd
May 1987 – Cayton Bay led by Felix Whitham. Attended by 9 members.
Saturday 6th
June 1987 – Leicester Museum by minibus led by Patrick Boylan. Attended by 11
members.
Thursday 9th
July 1987 – Committee meeting.
Saturday 18th
July 1987 – South Ferriby Middlegate Quarry led by Mike Horne and Felix Whitham.
Attended by 8 members.
Sunday 27th
September 1987 - Rosedale led by Lynden Emery.
Thursday 15th
October 1987 – the Kenneth Fenton Memorial Lecture by George de Boer on “The
Evolution of Spurn Point”.
Thursday 12th
November 1987 – Dr J Wadsworth of Manchester University on “Evolution of Large
Basaltic Shield Volcanoes”.
Thursday 10th
December 1987– Peter Scott of Hull University on the “Mineral Resources of
Northern England”.
Thursday 14th
January 1988 – Mark Piasecki of Hull University on “Terrane Boundaries on both
sides of the Proto-Atlantic”.
Friday 29th
January 1988 – Committee meeting.
Thursday 18th
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 17th
March 1988 – AGM and Richard Myerscough on “Yorkshire Wolds Earthquakes”.
Followed by a Committee meeting.
Friday 15th
April 1988 – Committee meeting in Cottingham.
Saturday 7th
May 1988 – Rifle Butts SSSI first conservation visit. Attended by 10 members.
Sunday 15th
May 1988 – East Ayton led by Sheila Rogers.
Saturday 21st
May 1988 – Cornwall Open Cast Coal Mine near Leeds.
Saturday 4th
June 1988 – The Centenary Symposium: Lectures – “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 8th
June 1988 – family day at Hornsea led by Ron Harrison.
Wednesday 29th
June 1988 – Capper Pass Smelting Works at Melton. Attended by 13 members.
Sunday 16th
July 1988 – Filey Brigg led by Felix Whitham. Attended by 13 members.
Sunday 4th
September 1988 – building stones of Hull led by Ron Harrison and Mike Horne.
Saturday 1st
October 1988 – conservation visit to Rifle Butts SSSI led by Lynden Emery.
Sunday 9th
October 1988 – North Ferriby led by Lynden Emery.
Thursday 20th
October 1988 – the Kenneth Fenton Memorial lecture by Martin Brasier of Hull
University on “The Evolution of Man”.
Thursday 17th
November 1988 – Hazel Prichard of the Open University on “Platinum Exploration
in Shetland”.
Thursday 8th
December 1988 – Steve Temperley of Hull University on “Large Scale Tectonic
Processes in the Karakorum Mountains, Northwest Pakistan”.
Thursday 19th
January 1989 – Arthur Fraser of Hull University on “The Cream of Norwegian
Geology”.
Friday 27th
January 1989 - Committee meeting.
Thursday 16th
February 1989 – Murray Mitchell of the British Geological Survey on ”Geology and
Communication Routes of the Southern Lake District”.
Thursday 16th
March 1989 – AGM and Lynden Emery on “Life in the Lower Cretaceous Speeton Clay
Sea”.
Saturday 8th
April 1989 – Rifle Butts SSSI conservation visit.
Saturday 22nd
April 1989 - Speeton led by Lynden Emery.
Saturday 20th
May 1989 – Garrowby area led by Richard Myerscough.
Wednesday 4th
June 1989 – Aldborough led by Terry Rockett.
Saturday 10th
June 1989 – Staithes and Port Mulgrave led by Tony Gear.
Thursday 29th June
1989 – Brantingham led by Terry Rockett. Attended by 9 members.
Sunday 16th
July 1989 – Leadenham, Northamptonshire, led by Alan Dawn and Sheila Rogers.
Attended by 14 members.
Sunday 17th
September 1989 - Building Stones of Hull led by Ron Harrison and Mike Horne.
Saturday 30th
September 1989 – visit to the Phoenix Project Museum excavation site in Albion
Street.
Saturday 7th
October 1989 – Caphouse Colliery mining museum led by Tony Benfield.
Thursday 12th
October 1989 – Miss J Cousens on “Flint and Chert in the UK”.
Sunday 15th
October 1989 – Rifle Butts SSSI conservation visit.
Thursday 9th
November 1989 – Prof Brian Windley of the University of Leicester on “The
Antarctic-Tierra del Fuego Connection”.
Thursday 14th
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 2nd
February 1990 – Committee meeting.
Thursday 15th
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 15th
March 1990 – AGM and D T Kilpatrick of Humberside County Council on ”The
Holderness Coast Protection Scheme”.
Sunday 1st
April 1990 – Rifle Butts SSSI conservation visit led by Lynden Emery. Attended
by 15 members.
Saturday 28th
April 1990 – Holderness coast led by Ron Harrison.
Sunday 13th
May 1990 – Goathland led by Sheila Rogers, by minibus. Attended by 17 members.
Saturday 16th
June 1990 – Sedgewick Geological Trail near Dent by minibus led by Terry
Rockett.
Friday 22nd
June 1990 – Sands Top Quarry, North Newbald, led by Mavis May followed by a
barbecue.
Saturday 14th
July 1990 – East Ayton and Cayton Bay led by Richard Myerscough.
Saturday 8th
September 1990 – Vale of Pickering led by Felix Whitham.
Saturday 15th
September 1990 – South Ferriby led by Felix Whitham.
Sunday 14th
October 1990 – Geological walk in Hull’s Old Town led by Ron Harrison.
Thursday 18th
October 1990 – Simon Mitchell of Liverpool University on “Controls on the
Distribution of Belemnites in the Jurassic and Cretaceous”.
Sunday 21st
October 1990 – Rifle Butts conservation visit led by Lynden Emery.
Thursday 15th
November 1990 – Maurice Tucker of Durham University on “Carbonate Platforms and
Sequence Stratigraphy”.
Saturday 17th
November 1990 – South Ferriby led by Mike Horne.
Thursday 13th
December 1990 - Steve Temperley of Leicester University on “The Role of Shear
Zones in the Crust”.
Thursday 17th
January 1991 – Members’ evening at Wyke 6th 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
geology collection by Jim Darmody.
25th
January 1991 – Committee meeting.
Thursday 7th February
1991 - Patrick Boylan on “The End of Uniformity? Catastrophe Theories in Geology
– Past and Present”.
Thursday 28th
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 21st
March 1991 – AGM and Beverley Halstead of Imperial College and Reading
University on “The Extinction of the Dinosaurs”.
Sunday 14th
April 1991 – Rifle Butts SSSI conservation meeting.
Sunday 20th
April 1991 – Speeton led by Lynden Emery.
Saturday 18th
May 1991 – Boulder Survey at Kilnsea led by Ron Harrison. Attended by 17 members
and guests.
Saturday 1st
June 1991 – South Cave Station Quarry led by Felix Whitham. Attended by 19
members and guests.
Saturday 15th
and Sunday 16th 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 28th
July 1991 – Stoke on Trent area by minibus led by David Thompson of Keele
University. Attended by 12 members.
Saturday 14th
September 1991 – Frodingham Ironstone led by Simon Knell of Scunthorpe Museum.
Sunday 29th
September 1991 – Spring Bank Cemetery led by Jim Darmody.
Friday 18th
October 1991 – Reg Bradshaw of Bristol University on “The Caledonides of North
Central Norway”.
Sunday 20th
October 1991 – Rifle Butts SSSI conservation visit.
Sunday 27th
October 1991 – Urban geology walk in Hull led by Ron Harrison and Mike Horne.
Attended by 8 members and guests.
Thursday 14th
November 1991 – Mike Allderidge on “Geological Aspects of Oil Exploration and
Production”.
Thursday 16th
December 1991 – the Kenneth Fenton Memorial Lecture by Felix Whitham on “The
Northern Chalk Succession”.
Friday 10th
January 1992 – Committee meeting.
Thursday 16th
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 20th
February 1992 – Tony Benfield on “Dynamic Iceland”.
Thursday 26th
March 1992 – AGM and David Robinson from Louth on “North-East Lincolnshire from
the Wolds to the Sea”.
Sunday 5th
April 1992 – Holderness Coast led by Ron Harrison; a joint meeting with York
Geology Club.
Saturday 2nd
May 1992 – South Ferriby Foreshore, Humber Bridge Country Park and Hessle
Foreshore led by Mike Horne and Lynden Emery. Attended by nine members.
Thursday 7th
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 17th
May 1992- Rifle Butts SSSI conservation visit.
Saturday ?17th
June 1992 – field trip to Lincolnshire led by David Robinson of Louth. Attended
by 9 members.
Saturday 27th
June 1992 – Beverley Queensgate Quarry led by Felix Whitham followed by a
barbeque in the garden of Claire Heyes in Beveley.
Sunday 5th
July 1992 – Ingleton by minibus led by Terry Rockett.
Saturday 12th
September 1992 – Kirkham Abbey area led by John Senior of Durham University.
Tuesday 13th
October 1992 – Eric Robinson of University College London and President of the
Geologists’ Association on “Geology in the City”.
Thursday 12th
November 1992 – Steve Temperley of Leicester University on “Geology at the Top
of the World”.
Friday 4th
December 1992 – Peter Scott of Cambourne School of Mines on “A Geologist in the
Punjab and Hindu Kush”.
Thursday 14th
January 1993 – the Kenneth Fenton Memorial Lecture by John Pethick of Hull
University on “Holderness and the
Humber”.
Friday 22nd
January 1993 – Committee Meeting.
Friday 29th
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 11th
February1993 – Mick Stanley on “The Geology of Wine” at the Grammar School
Museum followed by a wine tasting.
Thursday 11th
March 1993 – AGM and Paul Ensom of the Yorkshire Museum “On the Tracks of
Dinosaurs”. Attended by 33 members and guests.
Sunday 14th
March 1993 – Whitby. No Leader. Attended by 26 members.
Sunday 25th
April 1993 – Bainton and Nafferton Chalk pits led by Mike Horne. Attended by 9
members.
Saturday 15th
May 1993 – Gransmoor, Skipsea Withow and Barmston led by Richard Myerscough and
Barry Constantine.
Saturday 19th
June 1993 – National Stone Centre in Derbyshire by minibus led by Mick Stanley.
Attended by 15 members.
Friday 2nd
July 1993 – social evening.
Saturday 10th
to Monday 12th July 1992 – An Introduction to the Geology of East
Yorkshire weekend field meeting led by Lynden Emery, Mike Horne and Felix
Whitham as a joint meeting with the Geological Society of Norfolk.
Thursday 29th
July 1993 – Hornsea led by Terry Rockett. Attended by 12 members.
Sunday 1st
August 1993 – “Geology in the City” led by Mike Horne for “Geology Unlimited”.
Sunday 12th
September 1993 – Spring Bank Cemetery led by Jim Darmody. Attended by 11
members.
Sunday 10th
October 1993 – Old Town Walk in Hull led by Ron Harrison.
Thursday 21st
October 1993 – Geoff Wade of Simon Petroleum Technology on “Information Systems
– a New Geological Horizon”.
Thursday 9th
December 1993 – Prof Ansell Dunham of Leicester University on “Bricks Ancient
and Modern”.
Thursday 9th
December 1993 – Jack Hardisty of the University of Hull on “The Humber
Observatory”.
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