Small businesses on the Jurassic Coast are being encouraged to sign up for the final series of Battle the Bills workshops. The bite-sized workshops, which are free of charge, have proved extremely popular with an average rating of 9/10 and described by participants as: “Punchy, essential and incredibly useful”, Annabelle Lowe, Newquay “Clear, informative and friendly”,…
JEREMY GARDINER & AMANDA WALLWORK 14 July – 11 August 2012 This new exhibition of paintings and prints examines the rocks and strata that form the hidden landscape of this unique coastline. The work seeks to express the unimaginable vastness of geological timescales. Jeremy Gardiner’s work is well known for its exploration of the Dorset coastline.…
350 secondary school students from six secondary schools in Dorset attended the very first Fossil Festival secondary school day hosted by the Thomas Hardye School on Thursday 3rd May 2012. The Natural History Museum, Jurassic Coast Team and the Thomas Hardye School Fossil Club led 12 stands at the event where students from the Thomas…
The Lyme Regis Fossil Festival seems to be getting bigger and more exciting every year and this year was no exception. Thousands of people visited Lyme Regis over the May bank holiday weekend to enjoy the experience. The Jurassic Coast Team had a stand inside the marquee and ran a number of activities including a…
Over the last few years we have noticed that some of the wave cut platforms along Monmouth Beach west of Lyme Regis have been breaking and even bursting out of the shore platforms. The most spectacular event took place over the last two weeks of July 2011 when an area 8 m by 3m lifted…
The series of guided walks run by the Coastlink partnership continues through the summer. The latest walks are in the Weymouth and Portland area and will continue Eastward every Saturday until the end of August. Participants have given high praise to the series that aims to showcase the coast, its diverse natural heritage and the…
A project to raise the awareness of the loss of global biodiversity has tolled the first ever full sized bell cast from Portland Roach stone… Confused? Read on. The MEMO Project – Mass Extinction Memorial Observatory – has been created by a stone carver Sebastian Brooke and aims to create an inspirational monument on Portland…
Coastal Voices Performance at Beer Quarry Caves June 1st was a first in many ways. A group of people from across Devon, including children from Seaton Primary school and B Sharp, arrived at Beer Quarry Caves to perform the world premiere of Sturzstrom, a Landscape Event for Voice composed by Marc Yeats. The piece is…
Five sixth formers from Queen Elizabeth’s represented the Jurassic Coast at a three day UNESCO World Heritage Youth Summit in Greenwich, London between 27th – 29th June. The students met 120 other young ambassador’s of World Heritage from sites around the UK including the Giant’s Causeway, Heart of Neolthic Orkney and Blaenavon Industrial Landscape. The…