Saturday Meetings Programme—Winter 2024-25
All meetings will be held in the Town Hall, Hereford, starting at 14.15. Non-members are welcome. The Extraordinary General
Meeting of 14 September 2024 will begin at 13.30 before the talk at 14.15 that day.
2024
14 September – Extraordinary General Meeting at 13.30. Talk at 14.15—David Whitehead: ‘Lady Brilliana Harley, a Puritan heroine’
12 October – The F. C. Morgan Lecture. Prof. Julian Thomas, Manchester University: ‘Arthur’s Stone revisited: a Herefordshire chambered cairn and its context’
9 November – Peter Hammond: ‘The river sewage pollution scandal’
30 November – Prof. David Siveter, Leicester University: ‘Exceptionally preserved Cambrian fossils of the Chengjiang lagerståtte, China’. This follows on from Prof. Siveter’s tak in 2022 about the Siluruan lagerståtte in Herefordshire
2025
4 January – Philip Hume: ‘The Mortimers of Wigmore: lords of the Welsh Marches and (nearly) kings of England’
25 January – Rachel Sycamore: ‘Church chests in Herefordshire: tales from a conservator’
15 February – Judy Stevenson: ‘Sutton Walls revisited’
15 March – President’s Address. Lucinda Orr: ‘Valuing the Herefordshire hoard’
Friday Geology Meetings—Winter 2024-25
All meetings will take place on Fridays in Hereford Town Hall, from 18.00 to 20.00. Non-members are welcome.
2024
27 September – Prof. Jon Clatworthy, Lapworth Museum, Birmingham University: ‘Professor Lapworth, his life and geology’
18 October – James Creswell, Geoworld Travel: ‘A geological journey through Iceland’
13 December – Christmas nibbles with rocks and fossils. Discussion about the Club’s geology trips / events, 2025
2025
17 January – Mark Baggot, University of Worcester: ‘Paleontology and the school fossil project’
21 February – Stuart Cuming, Geomorphologist, Environment Agency: ‘The geology, hydrology and ecology of our rivers’
21 March – Rose Watkins: ‘George Piper and the Ledbury ‘passage beds’’
Field Meetings Programme 2024
| No. | Date | Location | Led by |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saturday 4 May | Silurian anticlinal inliers on the Hereford / Gloucester border | Dave Green |
| 2 | Saturday 8 June | Historic buildings, Hereford Cathedral School | Dr Howard Tomlinson (President), Duncan James |
| 3 | Saturday 29 June | Croft Castle, landscape and art | David Lovelace, Richard Gilbert, Paul Ligas |
| 4 | Saturday 20 July | Clydach Gorge | Alan Bowring |
| 5 | Thursday 25 July | Arthur’s Stone | Prof. Keith Ray |
| 6 | Wednesday 14 August | Lapworth Museum and Winterborne House, Birmingham | Jon Clatworthy, Ann Harbour |
| 7 | Wednesday 18 September | Landscape and geological aspects of the Hantar Hill area | Geoff Steel |
For more details of the content and arrangements for each Field Meeting please click here. Please click here for the booking form as a pdf and here as a Word document you can download and complete. These documents have also been sent to members by post.
Members are also invited to visit the Sidney Nolan Trust exhibition at the Rodd, Presteigne, for a guided tour on Saturday 21 September. Further details will follow but please contact the Field Secretary if you are interested.
Autumn/Winter Meetings and Geology Meetings 2024-2025
Details of these programmes will follow once the they are finalised and published later in the year.
The Club meetings have been arranged making every effort to follow Government and Council guidelines and members are advised that they attend at their own risk. Because of circumstances beyond the Club’s control it is possible that meetings may have to be cancelled at short notice. Before attending an advertised meeting, members are advised to check the Club website or your emails for late news.