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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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).
Jono came over for a visit today and we decided to indulge in a little visit to yet another of Glasgows free museums. This time, the Museum of Transport. It was a decent way to waste a couple of hours, with lots of examples of old buses, bikes, cars and trains to look at, as [...]
Gems from Glasgow Uni Heroes part 1: “Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.” – Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.
Gems from Glasgow Uni Heroes part 2: “There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now.” – Lord Kelvin, 1900
Gems from Glasgow Uni Heroes part 3: James Watt patenting other people’s ideas.
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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 [...]