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Emeritus Professor J.N. Hutchinson: Historical Landslide Collection – Great Britain Land Use Planning and Development Programme Internal Report IR/12/073 “There rolls the Deep where grew the tree O Earth, what changes hast thou seen! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go” Lord Alfred Tennyson The Cliff-Founder and Landslide at Gore Cliff, Isle of Wight G.W. Colenutt, FGS Landslide at Gore Cliff, 1928 BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY LAND USE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME INTERNAL REPORT IR/12/073 Emeritus Professor J.N. Hutchinson: Historical Landslide Collection – Great Britain The National Grid and other Page, J H. and Dashwood, C. Ordnance Survey data are used with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. Licence No: 100017897/2011. Keywords Report; John Hutchinson, landslides, collections Front cover Lord Alfred Tennyson The Cliff-Founder and Landslide at Gore Cliff, Isle of Wight, 1928 G.W. Colenutt, FGS Bibliographical reference PAGE,J H, DASHWOOD, C. 2012. All fields on the title and cover should be amended by using File/Properties/Custom. British Geological Survey Internal Report, IR/12/073. 126pp. Copyright in materials derived from the British Geological Survey’s work is owned by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and/or the authority that commissioned the work. You may not copy or adapt this publication without first obtaining permission. Contact the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Section, British Geological Survey, Keyworth, e-mail [email protected]. You may quote extracts of a reasonable length without prior permission, provided a full acknowledgement is given of the source of the extract. Maps and diagrams in this book use topography based on Ordnance Survey mapping. © NERC 2012. 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Copyright Any persons requiring to reproduce any photographic material contained in this report, should first contact the copyright right holder for permission to publish. i IR/12/073 Contents Foreword ......................................................................................................................................... i Copyright ........................................................................................................................................ i Contents .......................................................................................................................................... ii Summary ....................................................................................................................................... iii 1 Introduction ............................................................................................................................ 1 1.1 J.N. HUTCHINSON: 1926-2011 ................................................................................... 1 1.2 J.N. HUTCHINSON: Chronology.................................................................................. 2 2 Use of data ............................................................................................................................... 3 2.1 NORFOLK ..................................................................................................................... 3 2.2 ISLE OF WIGHT ........................................................................................................... 4 2.3 KENT (Dover) ................................................................................................................ 8 2.4 KENT (Broadstairs) ........................................................................................................ 8 Appendix 1 Professor J.N. Hutchinson Data Collection .................................................... 10 References .................................................................................................................................. 120 ii IR/12/073 Summary This report describes a collection of material, field documents, aerial photographs, reports, maps and reference material, which was bequeathed to the British Geological Survey by Professor J. N. Hutchinson. Any material pertaining to Great Britain was sorted into geographical regions and catalogued with the remaining material archived within the National GeoSceince Data Centre to be catalogued at a later date. iii IR/12/073 1 Introduction During a long and prestigious career Professor Hutchinson published numerous reports and journal articles. He gained international renown for his work on landslides and other forms of slope instability, and in the engineering importance of features remaining from the effects of freeze-thaw in the Pleistocene period. During 2010 the BGS was approached by Professor Hutchinson to take over his collection of reference material and field books. This material represented a vast collection of source material on landslides and other topics of interest to the engineering community. It was decided to catalogue the material pertinent to Great Britain in order to provide readily accessible reference material. Work during his time at the Building Research Station on the Isle of Wight and Kent/Sussex was used during the creation of the National Landslide Database. Data taken from the collection is being used to update the National landslide Database with examples of this given in Section 2. The archive material contained in this report covers the following areas of Great Britain: • Isle of Wight • Kent • Sussex • Norfolk • UK Miscellaneous (covers areas of Northern Ireland, Suffolk, Essex, London, Shropshire, Dorset, Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, Wiltshire, Rutland, Scotland) • Wales 1.1 J.N. HUTCHINSON: 1926-2011 Emeritus Professor of Soil Mechanics at Imperial College Whilst John’s academic contributions are many and varied, he focussed mainly on the importance of understanding geomorphology and earth surface processes in civil engineering, with a strong emphasis on slope processes. As such he was the pioneer of a discipline that has greatly gathered traction and momentum in recent years, and he continued to participate in research and in academic discussions to the very end. His work on Quaternary history, and in particular of periglacial processes, in contemporary ground conditions, will leave an enduring legacy. In the landslide field he will perhaps be best remembered for his work on undrained loading, but this in just one of many contributions. Professor Hutchinson’s breadth of knowledge, intellectual prowess and exquisite sense of insight were a remarkable combination, wrapped up in a personality that showed both warm and humility. His remarkable attention to detail and insight was often most evident in the reviews of papers submitted for publication. Extracted from American Geophysical Union, Landslide Blogosphere 1 IR/12/073 4 January 2012 1.2 J.N. HUTCHINSON: CHRONOLOGY 1926 27th December: born in Coventry, England 1937-44 Pupil at Ballake School, Coventry 1944-47 Undergraduate, University of Birmingham 1947 BSc (1st class Honours) in Civil Engineering 1947-50 Engineer under Agreement with Robert M Douglas (Contractors) Ltd, Birmingham. Worked on open-cast mining and on the construction of Tinplate mills in South