Some Open University Geol. Soc. and North Eastern Geol. Soc. members with Dr. Steve Maclean of the Hancock Museum (far right) about to enjoy an excursion around Newcastle upon Tyne looking at exotic building stones. (Sep. 2001)	A young lad willingly (or unknowingly?) poses for scale next to an upper Carboniferous fossil tree (Sigillaria sp.) in Stanhope Parish Churchyard, Co. Durham. Notice the horizontal roots typical of swamp conditions.
Some quarries in Co. Durham, e.g. Quarrington, expose the Permian Marl Slate in which well preserved fossil fish can be found. Many of them are found curled up indicating that anoxic conditions caused their death.	Killhope Lead Mining Centre near Nenthead on the Stanhope-Alston road, Co. Durham. The water wheel was used to drive the machinery which extracted the lead from the ore.
Joy, proudly holding a gastropod (Bourgetia) from the Upper Jurassic reef limestone at Betton Farm quarry, near Scarborough, Yorkshire.	Dinosaur footprint, mould and cast, from a (loose fallen?) block of Middle Jurassic? sandstone found at Port Mulgrave (near Staithes), North Yorkshire.
Enthusiastic members of N.E.G.S. examining sedimentary structures of the Staithes Sandstone Formation at Staithes, Summer 2003	Some of the members of N.E.G.S. who had an enjoyable afternoon touring the Killhope Lead mining area under the guidance of Brian Young in 2003. The umbrellas illustrate the typical weather to be expected in the North Pennines