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MENDIP TIMES

Mining in Camerton THE Camerton Local History Group’s first event held in October was a big success with a full house at the local school for a talk and exhibition about local mines. Children from the school introduced the evening by singing Down! Down! Digging in a Somerset Mine. Then guest speakers, Neil MacMillen and Mike Chapman gave a wonderful talk and slide show of old mining photographs from their new revised book ‘Coal from Camerton’ on sale at Radstock Museum. The history group then invited everyone to look around an exhibition, which included some unusual artefacts from the mines, boards of local photographs and other local information.

Rocks of ages – Mendip geology festival success THE annual Mendip Rocks! geology lectures, talks and practical events. and Somerset Wildlife Trust. ‘A’ level festival certainly lived up to its promise The Big Rocks School Day at geology students from Wells Cathedral that it would offer something for all Burrington attracted more than 100 School also helped with the workshops. ages. pupils. Classes from Shipham, Blagdon, Mendip Rocks! 2014 has been The Mendip-wide festival began with Burrington and Sandford primary supported by the Mendip Hills AONB an event for junior schools at Burrington schools took part in hands-on activities Partnership in collaboration with the Combe, included visits for adults to provided by Butterfly Conservation, Somerset Earth Science Centre and some of its working quarries, as well as Plantlife, Somerset Earth Science Centre Somerset Wildlife Trust.

Burrington Combe also hosted the first public event – a family Shipham School pupils at the Big Rocks School Day fun afternoon offering a range of activities including geocaching

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