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At our March meeting, on Friday 15th, Terry Hill told the tale of seven not so famous scientists who unfortunately met untimely deaths caused by their inventions or discoveries. One of the seven was Sabin Arnold von Sochocky (1883 to 1928).  … Continue reading

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At our February meeting David Vincent, ably assisted by Christine, presented a very interesting Part 2 of the ‘Greening of Nottinghamshire’ He described the early planning stages and then went on to explain how the many coal spoil heaps in … Continue reading

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To accommodate the pantomime at John Godber Centre, we met a week early on the 12th January and we continued the photography theme. Firstly we looked at an early method of producing a photographic image called Cyanotype. All members of … Continue reading

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Our first meeting of 2024 is a week earlier than usual on Friday 12th January 10.00am in the main hall at JGC The original plan was for everyone to create a fixed cyanotype ‘photographic’ image of selected objects but now … Continue reading

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In November Ann and Ian Murray presented an illustrated talk about Volcanoes. They explained that a volcano is a rupture in the crust of the Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface. On Earth, volcanoes are most often found … Continue reading

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