Thursday 31 October 2013
Cheshire History
This Society is a member of the Cheshire Local History Association. The Association has just published its annual journal. We have two copies which I will bring to our next meeting in November. In the meantime please contact me (paul.bujac@virgin.net) if you would like to borrow a copy.
Peter Styles and the Geology of Cheshire
The second of this
season's talks was given by Professor Peter Styles from Keele University and a
local Bunbury resident. Peter took a packed hall on a fascinating whistle stop
tour of the last few million years from the influence of plate tectonics, through
erosion and glaciations, to the latest thoughts of exploiting geothermal
energy.
We were delighted to
see both returning and new members and to welcome visitors. Currently we have
47 paid up members.
We were also pleased to see the refurbishments in the
Village Hall. These were funded by
WREN (Waste
Recycling Environmental Limited).
Friday 18 October 2013
Geology and Geomorphology of Cheshire 24th October
This month's talk will be given by Professor Peter Styles of Keele University. He notes:
'The United Kingdom has a complicated Geological History with records of almost all parts of the geological record for such a small country as it has been the site of much more dramatic tectonic episodes than we might suspect now from its tranquil repose.
It may not be surprising that Wales and Scotland did not originally form part of what we Geologist call Avalonia but have been forcibly cemented onto the main central block with associated Volcanoes, earthquakes and faulting in the relatively recent past of 500 Million years!
The Cheshire Basin is a consequence of one of those periods of faulting as it sits in a lopsided basin which deepens south-east from the Chester area toward the south and east where the basin may be more than 7 kilometres deep against the Wem-Bridgmere-Red Rock Fault which bounds the basin. A fringe of coal again surrounds this in the Macclesfield area.
Most of the geology of Cheshire has been controlled by this subsiding basin where thick Coal deposits are followed by Red Sandstones and thick Salt deposits , the basis of the Cheshire Chemical Industry, formed as the basin progressively subsided. Later rocks were mostly scraped away by the Ice Age ice sheets which have sculpted the surface leaving the Cheshire plain with occasional interruptions such as the Peckfortons and Alderley Edge where Copper deposits have been exploited along faults.
This lecture will show how the British Isles have formed and specifically how the Geology and Landscape of Cheshire has been superimposed on the framework that Plate Tectonics left us.'
Usual time 7:30 in Tiverton village hall. Visitors welcome.
'The United Kingdom has a complicated Geological History with records of almost all parts of the geological record for such a small country as it has been the site of much more dramatic tectonic episodes than we might suspect now from its tranquil repose.
It may not be surprising that Wales and Scotland did not originally form part of what we Geologist call Avalonia but have been forcibly cemented onto the main central block with associated Volcanoes, earthquakes and faulting in the relatively recent past of 500 Million years!
The Cheshire Basin is a consequence of one of those periods of faulting as it sits in a lopsided basin which deepens south-east from the Chester area toward the south and east where the basin may be more than 7 kilometres deep against the Wem-Bridgmere-Red Rock Fault which bounds the basin. A fringe of coal again surrounds this in the Macclesfield area.
Most of the geology of Cheshire has been controlled by this subsiding basin where thick Coal deposits are followed by Red Sandstones and thick Salt deposits , the basis of the Cheshire Chemical Industry, formed as the basin progressively subsided. Later rocks were mostly scraped away by the Ice Age ice sheets which have sculpted the surface leaving the Cheshire plain with occasional interruptions such as the Peckfortons and Alderley Edge where Copper deposits have been exploited along faults.
This lecture will show how the British Isles have formed and specifically how the Geology and Landscape of Cheshire has been superimposed on the framework that Plate Tectonics left us.'
Usual time 7:30 in Tiverton village hall. Visitors welcome.
Sunday 13 October 2013
Roger Wickson and the Anglo-Norman realm
Helen Kerr, one of our members, notes that Roger Wickson, ex headmaster of the King's School Chester, who gave a fascinating
talk to the History Society on the Fourth Crusade earlier this year, will be giving a series of
twelve lectures on The Anglo Norman Realm 1042 to 1154 at Nantwich museum beginning
on Monday 4th November this year.
The lectures will take place from 10a.m. to 12noon each Monday for six weeks before Christmas and a further six weeks in the New Year. They will be held under the aegis of the School of Humanities at Keele University.
For further information, see the course leaflet and application form (link to page 1 and page 2) or contact Roger at: wickson@audlem2.freeserve.co.
The lectures will take place from 10a.m. to 12noon each Monday for six weeks before Christmas and a further six weeks in the New Year. They will be held under the aegis of the School of Humanities at Keele University.
For further information, see the course leaflet and application form (link to page 1 and page 2) or contact Roger at: wickson@audlem2.freeserve.co.
White Mischief and the Vale Royal Legacy
Our new season opened with a talk by local historian Mark Bevan. Mark told us an intriguing tale that ranged from the history and demise of Vale Royal Abbey to the high life of British ex-pats in Kenya. This was a well polished talk with the added ingredient of a detective murder story.
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