A brief phone call on Friday 5th October gave TVGS some GREAT news!  Elspeth Fry, LEADER manager at Worcestershire County Council phoned to say that having originally turned down our second application for funding some weeks ago, she was now most pleased to state that money had been freed up and our full application granted!  So, a further £10360 to put our local geology firmly on the map in  a project that will commence shortly and finish end Sept 2013.  The main objectives of this new project are to create two further geo-trails with illustrated guides, erect four more interpretation boards at sites in Martley, finish a small car park at Martley Rock, provide funds to re-print the Martley geo-loop guide, run two geology courses for young persons and provide a permanent geology visitor centre at a convenient location.

Diary Date: Monday 22nd October, 7.30pm, members free, non-members £2.50–Georgia Jacobs presents The Geology of the Lizard Peninsula.  The Lizard, in Cornwall, familiar to many from holidaying there, has fascinating and rare geological features, in brief an example of the earth’s oceanic crust and upper mantle that has been lifted up and placed above the sea.  The interpretation of these features was key to the proof and acceptance of plate tectonic theory.