by designer | Dec 1, 2016 | Uncategorised
Hot-foot this month from a tourism seminar. You probably know the kind of thing: arrive for coffee at 9:30 and spend the day feeling your backside going numb while a series of people try to keep awake with Powerpoint. Except this was quite different. A fascinating...
by designer | Nov 1, 2016 | Uncategorised
How would you celebrate making one of the most important discoveries in scientific history? Maybe you’d jump out of your bath shouting Eureka, or perhaps open a bottle of champagne, or quaff a few pints of Yorkshire ale. In 1794 William Smith – the man behind...
by designer | Oct 1, 2016 | Uncategorised
About ten years ago a friend came to visit with her children. Her son, aged about ten, started to rummage through the pile of fossils outside our back door. He picked up a big piece of rock stuffed full of lovely rhynchonellids – fossil brachiopods common in Jurassic...
by designer | Sep 1, 2016 | Uncategorised
We all love our visitors but for the good citizens of Scarborough autumn comes as a bit of a relief. No more traffic queues (we live in hope) and miles of lovely empty beaches. This summer we have been taking people of every age, size and type out to the beaches...
by designer | Aug 1, 2016 | Uncategorised
How would you feel if, around 150 million years from now, someone discovered your half-eaten dinner and put it on display in a museum? Keep hold of that thought while we found out how geology can capture moments as well as eons. A couple of years ago Whitby Museum had...
