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nificent specimen of timber work; St. Michael’s Church, St. Mary’s 
Hall, Holy Trinity Church, Remains of the Benedictine Priory and 
Cathedral, Remains of City Walls and Gates, St. John’s Hospital, now 
the Free Grammar School, Batlake Hospital, and St. John’s Church, 
to Craven Arms Hotel to lunch at 12 o’clock. 
Leave for Kenilworth in conveyances at 1 o’clock, via Stivichall, 
Avenues of Oak, along the Warwick Road. Turn off at Gibbet Hill 
for Stoneleigh, Ancient Church, Motslow Hill, the Abbey, and Thick- 
tliorne Woods, to Kenilworth Castle. Mr. Fretton will describe the 
ruins and conduct the party by way of the remains of the Priory and 
the Parish Church, to the Station. 
Leave Kenilworth at 5.84 ; arrive in Birmingham at 6.10 ; Meat Tea 
at Grand Hotel at 6.20. Tickets 12/- each, or without Meat Tea 10/-. 
Cannock Chase.— The train will leave Birmingham (New Street 
Station) at 9 20, arriving at Brownhills at 10 10 ; proceed by Cannock 
Chase Colliery Company’s engine up their line of railway and visit 
their collieries ; proceed to the Cannock and Rugeley Collieries, look 
over the surface arrangements at Cannock Wood Pits, and those 
persons who are so disposed can descend the various pits. Luncheon 
will be provided at the Anglers’ Hotel, Hednesford, at 2 30. After 
luncheon, visit the Cannock and Rugeley Company’s Pool Pits and 
the Hednesford Canal Wharfs. Leave Hednesford Station at 4 55, 
arriving in Birmingham at 6 15. Tickets, 8s. each. Meat tea at the 
Grand Hotel, at 6 20. Tickets, 2s. 6d. each. 
The Lower Lickey Hills. —For Geologists, Photographers, 
Botanists, Ac.—Leave Snow Hill Station (Great Western) by 10 a.m. 
train, arriving at Rubery 10 51. Examine coal measures and Upper 
Silurian rocks in the Asylum Grounds, with the basement bed— 
Llandovery Sandstone resting on an eroded surface of Quartzite. 
Study the Quartzite in the grand section at the railway station 
(Rubery), and in numerous fine sections between that point and Barnt 
Green. Walk to Kendal End, where the Wenlock Limestone and 
brecciated rocks are exposed, and trace the sequence down to the 
Quartzite (which is of either Cambrian or Pre-Cambrian age) and to 
the rocks which, at the southern end of the Lickey, lie beneath the 
Quartzite—volcanic ashes unquestionably of Pre-Cambrian age. The 
last-named strata are exposed in the brook-course near Kendal End. 
Numerous fine boulders of Welsh felstone are scattered over this 
region. Distance to be walked, about four or five miles. Return by 
5 20 train (Midland) from Barnt Green, arriving in Birmingham 
(New Street Station) at 6 p.m. ; Tea at the Grand Hotel at 6 20. 
Tickets 5s. each, or 3s. without Meat Tea. A call will be made at the 
“New Rose and Crown Inn,” where light refreshments may be 
obtained. 
Tickets must be applied for not later than Monday, June 15tli, 
and may be procured from Mr. J. Morley or Mr. T. Bolton, Society’s 
Room, Mason College, Birmingham, between twelve and three 
o’clock, or by post. 
