Sunday 3rd July 2016, 6pm
Boot & Shoe, Greystoke, M6 junction 40

All welcome. Food available, and rooms.
Just like the PESGB used to be in 1974!

For further information please contact Dave Bodecott, dave@bodecott.com or Jonathan Redfern, Jonathan.Redfern@manchester.ac.uk

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This branch formed during 2014 in response to the significant numbers of members across the area – consultants, owners, employees, overseas employees, independents, contractors, academics and Aberdeen/London commuters. All expressed a wish to meet and network.

If you are within striking distance of M6 junction 40 remember that if traffic travels at 11mph on a good day in London, it still works at 70 mph here so distances mean very little in terms of time. We are half way between London and Aberdeen, surrounded by nine international airports and three hours from London by train (= a typical Friday journey around the M25!). This low-cost area for business is benefitting from fibre broadband roll-out to all the rural locations.

Our branch meets on a flexible basis, as and when members express preference for certain dates to fit in with busy schedules. Normal format is a rural pub lunch with or without a presentation from laptop. Visitors welcome. So far we have met in Greystoke pub every three months.

This area is geologically spectacular, dominated by onshore and offshore Carboniferous to Permo-Triassic basins and major tectonic and sedimentary features in both basement and cover plus numerous intrusives. Contemporary geological processes are dominated by the current inter-glacial phase and lacustrine-deltaic evolution. Flooding in 2009 and 2015 was catastrophic and heart-breaking for those near water and a reminder of the power of nature and the strength of continuing sedimentary processes. The area experiences regular earth tremors and has been tectonically active since the Tertiary uplift, but so far the Coniston volcano has not re-awakened. Perhaps we are safe after 450 million years?