Who took the Dinosaur * * * * out of Bassingbourn?

Name: Who took the Dinosaur * * * * out of Bassingbourn?
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ByBernard O'Connor

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In the 1860s a new industry started in Bassingbourn, that of coprolite mining. Thought by many to be fossilised droppings, the deposit was exploited for conversion into superphosphate - the world's first artificial chemical fertiliser. Although many hundreds of local people were employed, the diggings attracted gangs of labourers from elsewhere. Bernard O’Connor’s book investigates the social, economic and archaeological impact of this unusual 19th industry in Bassingbourn.

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Publication Date: Nov 6, 2009
Language: English
ISBN: 9781902810393
Category: History
Copyright: All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
Contributors: By (author): Bernard O'Connor

Specifications

Pages: 39
Binding: Perfect Bound
Interior Color: Black & White
Dimensions: A5 (5.83 x 8.27 in / 148 x 210 mm)

Keywords

coprolite fossils palaeontology geology dinosaur droppings manure fertiliser industrial revolution Bassingbourn Packard Colchester Fison Lawes accidents drunkenness social problems

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About Bernard O'Connor

Bernard O'Connor has taught Geography, History, Religious Education, Citizenship and English in Britain, Australia, Taiwan and China. Now living in the Shropshire Hills, UK, he has researched many aspects of local history. His first publications were on the social, economic, archaeological and environmental impact of the 19th and 20th century coprolite industry in the UK, France, Spain and the United States. This was open-cast mining of phosphatic nodules, thought by some at the time to be fossilised dinosaur droppings. He has also researched and published work on RAF Tempsford, described as Churchill's Most Secret Airfield during WW2. From here the RAF's Special Duties Squadrons (and for a time the US Carpetbaggers) sent in over 600 secret agents and supplied the many resistance groups in occupied Europe. He has published numerous accounts of the women agents, sabotage training and sabotage operations (including blackmail sabotage) in Norway, Denmark, Holland (the Netherlands), Belgium, France, Greece, Spain, Portugal and Gibraltar He has written accounts of German-trained agents infiltrated into Britain; Soviet Comintern agents brought to Britain and infiltrated by SOE into Western Europe; Spanish Republicans trained for missions in Spain, and surrendered or captured anti-fascist Soviet, Austrian and German soldiers who were trained for SOE sabotage and subversion missions. He is an accomplished speaker and Zoom presenter.

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