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- Tatton Park is home to herds of both Red and Fallow deer and i saw a few through the mist as i drove in to start setting up.
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- The entrance to the huge marquee where our display was.
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- The marquee before people started setting up their displays and activities. The ‘star’ ceiling looked pretty amazing and made for a fantastic location for this event.
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- Getting the BIMS display set up whilst having other stallholders wanting to have a sneek peek!
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- Matt and Ian doing some last minute adjustments to our display.
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- BIMS members from left to right – Graham Ensor, Keith Mahood, Matt Smith, Ian Barrett and me just before the public were let in.
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- BIMS members from left to right – Luther Jackson, Graham Ensor, Keith Mahood, Ian Barrett and Matt Smith.
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- Luther documenting our display he had a spare second to do so!
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- Some of Luther’s specimens on display.
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- A small part of Graham’s amazing collection on display to help educate and amaze 🙂
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- Some of my own collection on display including a lot of UK and Irish specimens and also a bottle of ‘Falling Stone’ beer 🙂
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- Lots of specimens were able to be handled by the public and gave the kids especially some huge grins 🙂
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- Graham’s recent acquisition of an absolutely stunning 139g specimen of Barwell with a fascinating story.
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- Keith, Graham and myself busy talking space rocks!
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- Myself, Matt and Ian with the recently completed British and Irish meteorites poster.
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- We were kept busy non stop all night with 4000 tickets having been released for the event!
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- It wasnt just children of course who were fascinated, plenty of adults asked some very searching questions too!
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- How do you know that these are meteorites?……………. 😉
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- 4 or 5 people deep around our display. Obviously lots of people fascinated to see some amazing rocks from space 🙂
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- Lots of interest in my UK and Irish specimens that were on display.
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- Graham’s Taza artifact also sparked a lot of interest. A stunning specimen!
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- Was really good to see so many families on the night where space obsessed kids had dragged their parents along too 😉
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- Open mouthed children, just brilliant and so worthwhile putting events such as this 🙂
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- Matt and Ian running our ‘Meteorite or Meteorwrong’ and ‘Guess the weight of the meteorite’ competitions