Bob on May 29th, 2009

Gorgeous weather, in the west end on other business, and nothing better to do. That’s right; it’s time to give Fossil Grove another try.
This time we checked the opening times, made sure that there were no public holidays on (not even Glasgow City Council could use Oak Apple Day as an excuse surely) and even [...]

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Bob on May 22nd, 2009

So, after establishing the actual opening times of fossil grove [pdf leaflet]:
Open Thursday–Monday 10am–4pm, late March–late September
I decided to give it another go. So, with Jono in tow we walked out from the Transport Museum to Fossil Grove (approx 1.8 miles on a lovely day).

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Bob on May 13th, 2009

So, today a few of us popped over to Victoria Park to visit Glasgow’s Fossil Grove (55° 52′ 36.24″ N, 4° 20′ 17.58″ W according to Wikipedia). Fossil Grove is a group of Lepidodendron tree stump casts dated to the Early Carboniferous, and part of the Lepidodendropsis Floral Province. It’s a reasonably famous site (SSSI [...]

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