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Evening Field Meeting, Glacial Boulder Trail 2 'Around Bournville and Cotteridge Park'

BCGS Posted on 14 April 2024 by admin14 April 2024
Evening Field Meeting, Glacial Boulder Trail 2 'Around Bournville and Cotteridge Park'

6.30 – 8.30
3 July

Wednesday 3 July (Evening Field Meeting): Glacial Boulder Trail 2 'Around Bournville and Cotteridge Park'. Led by Julie Schroder. Joint meeting with Geological Society, WMRG. Meet at 6.30 on Bournville Lane, Birmingham, outside Bournville Station, SP050811. Parking available on Bournville Lane west of the railway. Learn how Louis Barrow, Cadbury's chief engineer in the early 20th century, saved numerous glacial erratic boulders found during excavation of the factory site, and created Birmingham's finest and most comprehensive collection of erratics from the Arenig Mountains in Wales. Finish around 8.30. Possible pub social afterwards (but not in 'dry' Bournville!).

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