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The Arts Society Ashdown Forest Lecture by Aaron Hunter
The Dinosaur Sculptures of Crystal Palace Park.
Hidden in a south London park you can find dinosaurs! Created in 1850s, these Grade I listed architectural structures represented the cutting edge of knowledge of dinosaurs and marine reptiles in the 19th century.
Palaeontologists had only just coined the name Dinosaur, and with limited fossil bones, they began their journey to discover how these extinct animals looked.
Aaron will tell us how the professors and fossil hunters such as Mary Anning and Gideon Mantell found fossils and created the reconstructions, even dining inside one of the massive models for a New Year's Eve party in 1853.
Our lecturer is a professional scientist and researcher with the University of Cambridge and a prize-winning London Blue Badge Guide and City of Bath Honorary Major’s Guide. As a palaeontologist, he is an expert on fossils and prehistoric life from the first animals to appear on our planet to the evolution of early humans. His lectures look at the interface between the arts and sciences.
Join us at the Crowborough Community Centre to hear about these amazing structures, remembered by many from childhood visits to Crystal Palace Park.
Hidden in a south London park you can find dinosaurs! Created in 1850s, these Grade I listed architectural structures represented the cutting edge of knowledge of dinosaurs and marine reptiles in the 19th century.
Palaeontologists had only just coined the name Dinosaur, and with limited fossil bones, they began their journey to discover how these extinct animals looked.
Aaron will tell us how the professors and fossil hunters such as Mary Anning and Gideon Mantell found fossils and created the reconstructions, even dining inside one of the massive models for a New Year's Eve party in 1853.
Our lecturer is a professional scientist and researcher with the University of Cambridge and a prize-winning London Blue Badge Guide and City of Bath Honorary Major’s Guide. As a palaeontologist, he is an expert on fossils and prehistoric life from the first animals to appear on our planet to the evolution of early humans. His lectures look at the interface between the arts and sciences.
Join us at the Crowborough Community Centre to hear about these amazing structures, remembered by many from childhood visits to Crystal Palace Park.
Thursday 13 Apr 2023
Crowborough Community Centre
Pine Grove East Sussex TN6 1FE
2pm Members of the Society free, visitors £6 per lecture.
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The Arts Society Ashdown Forest
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