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ORGANISED AND RUN BY:
SHEILA HARPER AND STEVE HEBDIGE
ADDRESS
Chichester
14 Bay View Terrace
Newquay
Cornwall
TR7 2LR
Phone: 01637
874216
Access Statement For Chichester Guest House 2007
Introduction
Please note - an unsolicited advert on the 'IKnow Cornwall' web site infers we have wheel chair access - I am sorry but we do not.
The Chichester is a large ordinary terraced house with seven UPSTAIRS bedrooms providing
accommodation and breakfast in the summer and specialist activity holidays in spring and autumn
for small groups of adults. It is run by Steve Hebdige and Sheila Harper. There are no other staff.
Pre-Arrival
We need to be told before you arrive if you have any special needs as there are just the two off us running our guest house. This includes food preferences, extra pillows, special needs etc
We can be contacted by email, phone using BT's specialist services and snail mail. We have a large print brochure and a section on our web site which is in large print and can be enlarged
Newquay is a cliff top town overlooking the beaches which mostly have steep access via slopes or stairs
Porth Beach and Fistral Beach are the only ones with car parking facilities and fairly easy flattish access and are a ten minute drive from our house
Our house is on the ridge that backs the town so is up a hill. The nearest bus stop is 5 minutes away and there are bus and railway stations down the hill about 7 minutes away from us
Most local people with problems walking use local taxis - some taxi phone numbers - 01637 851234, 01637 855000, 01637 830637.
There is a doctors surgery in the street - 01637 878383 below our house and a cottage hospital at the end of the same road - St. Thomas's Road
Newquay *has a variety of places to eat out with varying levels of access.
In summer Newquay gets very busy and parking in town by shops etc can be difficult. We do not provide collection services for guests. Some
mobility equipment can be hired from the British Red Cross but has to be collected - phone 0845 3315000.
Newquay does not operate the Radar Key Scheme we are told.
Information for the disabled visiting Newquay can also be accessed from the Newquay Tourist Information
Centre on 01637 854020.
Dogs - we only accept a dog which is guiding the blind as we have no facilities for animals
Accessibility to the Chichester
There are no ground floor bedrooms - we are sorry about this but our house is not big enough
Access to bedrooms is via a flight 12 of stairs with a handrail on both sides then either 2 or 4 stairs depending
upon bedroom allocation. There is a further flight of stairs to our top floor
None of our bedrooms have toilets
5 bedrooms have showers in the room
One bedroom has easy to use taps
There is a hearing loop in the lounge and a payphone in the hall has an inductive coupler
In case of fire etc we provide a buddy service to help people from their rooms
We provide a personal service so will be aware of your needs if you tell us. We will try to be as helpful as possible
We cannot provide nursing services
OUR SPECIAL INTEREST HOLIDAYS
These are all based in the countryside. This means being able to walk certain distances,
being able to cope with steep hills up and down, narrow rocky paths and paths near vertical drops,
walking in single file, wet and slippery conditions underfoot and overhead, getting cold and wet or too hot
It means having to carry wet weather gear and equipment if required.
It means being able to get in and out of our vehicle if used.
As we are supervising our groups if you are able but have a disability that requires help you should have a buddy with you
Our Interest Holiday brochure has details of minimum ability levels required.
Arrival & Car Parking Facilities
Bay View Terrace is situated on top of a hill
There is car parking for four cars with narrow bays at the front of our house. The surface is level tarmac.
We are happy to help with luggage
Facilities for dogs with blind people - please advise us if you have a dog. We will do our best to accommodate you.
We do not have facilities for other dogs.
Main Entrance & Reception
We have a front door reached up two steps - a wide step then a narrow step. There is an inner door.
There is no reception desk. We take you into the lounge so you can relax after your journey and ask if you would
like tea or coffee then deal with the registration there. We can provide a pad and pen if required.
There is a narrow hallway leading up to stairs to the bedrooms
On the left through the inner door is the lounge and next to that passed a mirror is the dining room
Public Areas - General (Internal)
The 2 metre hallway leads to the stairs. There is a public telephone on the right.
There are hand rails both sides of the stairs. At the top of the stairs consisting of 12 treads is a small landing. To the right is a single stair up which is a passage where our public toilets are. To the left is a flight of three stairs and 3 bedrooms with doors to the right.
To the left of those bedrooms is a rail leading to further stairs and another two flights of stairs and the top floor bedrooms.
There is no room for a lift.
All doors in the guest house are manual
All floors are carpeted
Public Areas - WC
All toilets are on the first floor up 12 stairs then up one more stair. They are on the left. We will be pleased to escort you the first time so you know where the toilets are.
Dining Room, Bar & Lounge
The Dining Room is equipped with tables and chairs you could find in your home. We do have a chair with arms if you have trouble rising.
The Bar has bench seating and dining chairs and is through the Dining Room
The Lounge has a chair with raised arms and a hearing loop - we will always ask what you would like and
provide waiter service
Laundry
We can provide a minimal laundry service. We can dry wet clothes for you.
Bedrooms
Our accommodation is basically a large house built about 100 years ago.
There are five bedrooms with showers in the rooms which we will show you how to use.
One of our bedrooms has twin beds, flip taps and a shower. 3 of our double bedrooms have access from only one side of the bed to the bed.
There are no facilities for people confined to wheelchairs as we do not have a lift.
In the event of an emergency we will provide a buddy for you to assist you.
There are signs provided in each room that can be hung outside your door stating that you need help in an emergency.
Please do not lock your bedroom door at night if this is the case
All rooms have radiators which can be individually controlled
Public Bathroom & WC
Both public toilets are on the first floor. Access to the nearest from the bedrooms on the middle floor is
down two steps, across a landing and up one step. There is one bedroom on this floor which is next to the bathroom with
bath and toilet.
Grounds and Gardens
We do not have a garden
Additional Information
If there are any reasonable suggestions you can make to help us make your stay more enjoyable please let us know.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Chichester
14 BAY VIEW TERRACE
NEWQUAY
CORNWALL
TR7 2LR
Telephone: 01637 874216
Email: sheila.harper@virgin.net
Website: http://freespace.virgin.net/sheila.harper
Grid reference: Map ref: 200/813614
Local equipment hire companies including wheel chairs: British Red Cross 0845 3315000
Local public transport numbers: Travel Line - 0871 200 22 23 - choose 'Local travel' from the options
listed and the operator wil give you arrival and departure times for any journey within Cornwall.
Railway - 08457 484950
If bus travel in Cornwall information is required in Braille, large print etc please contact
The Corporate Equality and Diversity Team, Room 203, New County Hall, Truro TR1 3AY
YOUR FEEDBACK
We welcome your feedback.
If you have any comments please phone 01637 874216 or email sheila.harper@virgin.net
Created on: 9/02/2008
ACCOMMODATION AND SPECIAL INTEREST HOLIDAYS
Welcome to 2008 and our - Steve and Sheila's 27th year in Cornwall. As I have printed on our headed
note paper - 'We are still enjoying ourselves'.
The good company, the mild climate and lovely scenery and the ability to follow all our
interests - what more could we want? Well there is more - discovery. It still amazes me after living here in
Cornwall for over twenty five years that we and our guests are still not only learning about the County but we
also make finds new to everybody. 2007 was no exception - see news and views for more details.
The Chichester Experience is a
reflection of our own interests and hopefully yours. Why? We enjoy the
great outdoors, being active and doing interesting things with like minded
people. With this in mind we organise and run Chichester Interest Holidays
in the Spring and Autumn.
Many of you reading these pages regularly
join us in our activities sharing our lives and adventures and importantly
we share yours so in the end what we do reflects what you like to do as
well. We began this venture in 1981 and many of you are now good friends
and frequent visitors. We have some great times with lots of laughs and
learn from each other. Thanks!
For those of you who have never been
to Cornwall it has wonderful heritage, natural history, varied geology and
great scenery from rugged cliffs to quiet lanes and scenic coves. A long
way from civilisation thousands of archaeological sites, mining sites,
industrial heritage and untamed coast and countryside remain and where
development has occurred much of this still reflects the underlying
history. Off the coast we can be lucky and see dolphins, seals and sunfish
and marine birds. The mild climate means inland there are plants and trees
and many interesting birds and insects. Cornwall is a place where you can
still feel free and follow your own dreams so it attracts people like Tim
Smit who created the Eden project. What a County!
Also much of what we do with you is
part of longer term projects that we are involved with. We try to put back
what we take out and we do this by giving you a good holiday with an
educative content, research, conserving and recording Cornish heritage,
writing and publishing, running walks, classes and giving local talks.
ACCOMMODATION DETAILS
Large comfortable centrally heated
town house
Quiet central position in Newquay within easy reach of coach and railway stations, the best beaches in Europe, gardens,
Newquay Zoo, shops and entertainment. About 7 miles from Newquay Airport.
Parking for five cars in our car parks and
parking in the road behind our house and safe keeping for bicycles
Lounge with TV and Video,
hearing loop and excellent library, maps and tourist information
Bar with drinks at reasonable prices
Dining
Room with Mineral Collection
Vegetarian and Diabetic diets available - please ask when
booking
GOOD COFFEE
Seven upstairs guest bedrooms with controllable heating, most with own showers and sea views.
Many extra facilities to make your stay comfortable including tea and coffee making, towels etc.
Own key and free access at all times
There is no smoking in the house.
in the house except for some bedrooms and the Dining Room
Modern fire detection system
Our unique ROCK SHED equipped with microscopes and
other equipment useful for mineral collectors, botanists, conchologists etc.
2008 TERMS
For all Summer vacancies and Interest Holiday dates please see 'Interest Holiday Programme' link.
PLEASE NOTE THAT IN JULY AND AUGUST WE ONLY PROVIDE BED AND BREAKFAST
BED AND BREAKFAST
Per night £23.00, per week £145.00
DINNER, BED AND BREAKFAST(not July and August)
Per night £31.00, per week £185.00
Children's Terms (Not Interest Holidays)
Youngest Child Aged 7 or under FREE all year
Additional Children - Aged 0 - 2:- 25%
Aged 3 - 7:- 50%, Aged 8 -14:- 75%
INTEREST HOLIDAYS per week - £280.00
(excluding entrance fees)
We are closed at Christmas and when we are
redecorating in January and February
NEW YEAR - December 30th to January 3rd
Bed and Breakfast only - £27 per night
(Minimum two nights stay)
Our Green Pricing Policy
We try to be as green as possible. One of the ways that we do this is by keeping our prices reasonable yet still giving good value and quality service. The less you pay the less resources used in the beginning to produce that money.
We are very happy to send you our Summer Brochure and/or our Interest Holiday Brochure and Newsletter if required.
WE CAN SUPPLY A LARGE PRINT VERSION.
Walking
Once you have walked in Cornwall you wont want to walk anywhere else. Cornwall has
about 265 miles of challenging varied coastline to choose from and that is where most of our walks are taken.
There is
nothing to match coastal walking with the views, the clean air, the sea, the wild flowers, rugged cliffs or
golden sanded beaches and heritage, history and stories of smuggling, fishing and folk. If required our vehicle transports
you to the start of your walk which is expertly guided by our walks leader Steve Hebdige. His wide local knowledge
from the stories and history of the area to the names of the wild flowers makes your day really interesting. You
could find yourself walking down Lands End way with its prehistoric landscape, wild cliffs and rugged terrain, the
Lizard coast with rare plants, scenic harbours and the best pasty shop in the County, the North coast jewelled by
battered cliffs and glorious beaches, the South coast pierced by peaceful river estuaries home to kingfisher and
otter.
All is within easy distance of Newquay. When possible our vehicle meets you with lunch. At the end of the day it
is there to carry you home if necessary. Our maximum length of walk is about 10 miles per day.
CORNISH ALLSORTS
This week is for fairly active people who enjoy mostly being out of doors doing
something interesting but don't want to walk miles and miles. Spending a day at a Bronze Age village or exploring a rare
natural habitat contrasts well with visiting a plantsmans garden or an old mining area. Rock pooling, bird or
badger watching, discovering Holy Wells, eating roast chestnuts back home collected on a walk, peaceful in a church
or eating warm scones piled with jam and silky Cornish clotted cream could be your forte. Meeting giants and ghosts
and jelly fish or seeing seals from the coast or dolphins from the Orca Sea-Faris boat (see links page for more info on this company)might take your fancy. Backdrops to our days out
could be rugged cliffs, the wide stretches of Bodmin Moor, miles of golden sands or tiny old cottages in a pretty fishing village. These are just some of
the activities you might find yourself involved with - real Cornish Allsorts.
BEST OF CORNWALL
For the less active - a coach tour with a difference. Our vehicle also takes you to places where the big coaches cannot go. We do include some of the better tourist attractions such as the Eden Project and National Trust properties like Lanhydrock.
We might arrange a day on the Isle of Scilly or take a walk around an interesting hamlet or enjoy the beauty of
Cornwall's magic coast. There are special gardens we share with you or you could find yourself standing atop Carn Brea
and enjoying the views across the County then take a stroll to look at the Basset Memorial and huge weather shaped
granite tors in a Neolithic setting, lunch that day a picnic eaten in the low walled remains of an Iron Age house.
Mineral Collecting
Cornwall is unique geologically and world
famous for its minerals. Many can still be found today including new species for sites, the County, Britain and the world,
especially as micro minerals. The mineral collecting weeks held at the Chichester are unique in Britain. We spend from
Sunday to Friday out in the field with one half day free and evenings can be spent in our famous Rock Shed to study and identify
material collected.The Rock Shed is equipped with microscopes, reference collection, rock trimmer etc.
We visit one or two
sites daily. Lists of minerals for each site visited are supplied beforehand. When possible we visit working quarries. Sites
come and go and at the moment we have over 40 collecting venues to choose
from.
The highlight of 2007 was Hingston Down Quarry with rare jeanbandyite turning up in the spring with casiterite and arsenopyrite.
I found water clear apatite and there were the usual copper secondries with super finds in September of lovely langite. In the October we were able to view a face being
blasted away and were then allowed on the new rock fall as it was spread out safely away from the face.
You need to be fairly active for this week. The terrain can be difficult and you should be able to use a hammer and carry your own equipment. We can also get very mucky. Complete beginners as well as more experienced collectors are all welcome.
Archaeology
Cornwall is the ideal place to discover our past.
Over 10,000 sites and features from the Late Mesolithic onwards still exist. Flint scatters, Neolithic chamber tombs,
Bronze Age and Iron Age villages and stone circles, barrows, menhirs and rows, fogous, industrial sites, and medieval
long-houses, Romano - British salt evaporation site etc can still be found. Further there are man made rock features
still awaiting discovery. The County Museum at Truro houses many of the finds from excavation. Steve has taken part in
Bronze and Iron Age digs and is the Cornwall Archaeological Society representative for our area. We have been responsible
for local projects that are used as background by archaeologists for reviewing sites as to their importance and I am
a published author. We both have been involved with new discoveries and 2007 was no exception particularly with respect to Roughtor.
Using our knowledge we provide a week
where we dip into the past visiting ancient sites all over Cornwall building up a picture of what life and ritual was
like in the past. We look at structures, how parts of a site relate to each other and the wider relationship of a site
in an area. There are many practical aspects to the week including exploring. Prehistoric features, flint and stone implements have been
discovered by ourselves and members of our groups.
You need to be fairly active for this week. To visit some of the sites
we must walk over uneven, hilly and sometimes very muddy terrain, distances up to 5 miles.
INTEREST HOLIDAYS PROGRAMME 2008
March 8 - 15 NORFOLKITE INVASION
March 15 - 22 RECOVERY WEEK
March 22 - 29 MINERAL COLLECTING
Mar 29 - April 5 ARCHAEOLOGY & ALLSORTS
April 5 - 12 ORGANISING WEEK
April 12 - 19 WALKING COAST AND COUNTRY
April 19 - 26 CORNISH ALLSORTS
Apr 26 - May 4 MINERAL CLUB
May 4 - 10 ORGANISING WEEK
May 10 - 17 CORNISH ALLSORTS
May 17 - 24 WALKING COAST AND COUNTRY
May 24 - 31 MINERAL COLLECTING
May 31 - June 7 ORGANISING WEEK
June 7 - 14 BEST OF CORNWALL
June 14 - 21 CORNISH ALLSORTS
June 21 - 28 WALKING COAST AND COUNTRY
June 28th to August 29th -
Bed and Breakfast only - £145 per week
Please telephone for summer vacancies or see vacancies on page 5
Aug 30 - Sept 6 MINERAL COLLECTING
Sept 6 - 13 CORNISH ALLSORTS
Sept 13 - 20 WALKING COAST AND COUNTRY
Sept 20 - 27 ORGANISING WEEK
Sept 27 - Oct 4 CLUB
October 4 - 11 WALKING COAST AND COUNTRY
October 11 - 18 ARCHAEOLOGY
October 18 - 25 MINERAL COLLECTING
VACANCIES ARE SHOWN ON OUR PROGRAMME PAGE - or please telephone us for vacancies
PLEASE NOTE -
ALL HOLIDAYS ARE AT YOUR OWN RISK
Please send for our Brochure and Newsletter for more details.
To book a week it is best
to telephone or e-mail us first.
This is in case you have any special needs, diet etc.
A deposit of £50 secures your booking and we will confirm in writing.
TERMS
All interest holidays cost £280 per week. This includes full board and use of our transport around Cornwall if required during the week.
Other than
Walking there may be additional entrance fees up to a maximum of £50. If we go to the Isle of Scilly
there will be extra for the boat trip. Orca Sea-Faris charged £50 in 2007.
I am sorry we don't take credit cards - this is because the banks charge to much for the service!
PLEASE NOTE ALL HOLIDAYS ARE AT YOUR OWN RISK
NEWS AND HIGHLIGHTS (BY SHEILA)
I'll start with archaeology. Time Team on Channel 4 did some excavation on the slopes of the hill Roughtor, Bodmin Moor
in the autumn of 2006 and the result of this was shown on TV in April 2007. We have done a lot of exploring this important
Neolithic ritual site and Bronze Age settlement area and it is one of our favourite places so the work done by Time Team was very interesting
for us. There was also a walk at Roughtor reviewing the results of the TV programme that we attended lead by County Archaeologist
Peter Herring. The most important discovery for Britain was the cairn bank - 100's of feet long which had been assumed to
be a boundary but turned out to be a possible
ritual pathway leading up the slopes of Roughtor. It has bends in it and each bend if you stop and view the hill makes you
look at a different tor on the summit. The tors were important and each had been surrounded by a great wall of stones in the past.
Well that was interesting enough but then I went onto Google in the summer and had a look at it from the air. At the top end of
the bank I noticed a circle of flat stones adjacent to a sort of rising sun shape. With our October Archaeology group we
investgated this and indeed there appears to be a circle of flattened stones at the end of the bank! Adjecent to the circle is a rising sun shape - semicircle with
rays coming of it and piles of stones dotted about. We also had a good look at this. In the winter we reported this to the County Archaeologists.
The sun shape was surveyed in the 1980's and was assumed to be field walls - but they don't look like it to us and the piles
of stones dotted around are cairns - used as markers or burial places in the Bronze Age. They didn't know about the circle - NOW they do and we are hoping
someone will go and check it out. Have we found a new stone circle for Cornwall?????
Many of our guests are now photographing dragonflies and butterflies. Ron Linfield is a dragonfly man and is now recording these
for Cornwall. I acquired his old Nikon D70 off him and now I have got the 'bug' except I do birds mostly. I decided to bring more
natural history into our Allsorts week. So it was off to Breney Common in May With kid's dipping nets and a load of plastic boxes.
It rained but that doesn't stop pond dipping and we found all sorts of beasties including water beetle larva and the larvae of damselflies, dragonflies etc
as well as tadpoles and water beetles various. The larvae are a new field for us so there was a lot of looking up photo's when we got home trying to identify what we have found.
There is a new book on dragonfly larvae etc that Ron has recommended so I shall have to get that. I also tried attracting
life that lives in the mud - various squirmy things like leeches, flat worms etc. I didn't stick my foot in the water but dangled a lamb chop
off a piece of string that I happened to have with me on the bottom of the pond. The lamb chop had been in our freezer for sometime - not eaten because
it was from a batch that were too tough - unfortunately even the flat worms turned it down so disappointed I walked off with it dragging it along the ground.
I couldn't stop laughing as I thought what am I doing - 'Hunting for the Beast of Bodmin?' Thankfully it didn't turn up. It was a very interesting day and
what was most interesting to me was how absorbed our group got with the dipping nets and the beasties they caught. So I included it in our Best of Cornwall
week and the same absorbtion happened again. So we will definitely be pond dipping in 2008.
A quick apology to those whose photo's I have used in these pages and can't remember whose is whose -
When I was sorting out pics downloaded on the
computer I took them out of their files ('course I'll remember whose is whose...). Most of the ones on these
web pages are mine and Steve's and the ones I am not sure are Martin Stolworthy's or Ron Linfields.
I finally got round to taking some mineral photographs via a microscope this winter. Think I'll stick to birds
unless someone has a spare Leica (latest model please) they don't want.
It really is a nitpicking business and when I look at sites like Mineral Paradise (Richard Bell) I have
to take my hat off to you lads. I finally cracked when local Robbie Selley said the heat from my lamp could
cause distortion - so I am saving up for some cool lights as well.
Robbie came out with us in March when our lads
from
Norfolk came down for mineral collecting. He walked onto one site, picked up an anatase specimen - you could see
the anatases with your eye and gave it to Bob Snowball. I didn't find a thing. I would like to thank Robbie for taking us to some new sites that week.
The best collecting site this year for me was Hingston Down Quarry. The jeanbandyites turned up in the spring. Helping others I didn't
worry about collecting much myself till the May week when I noticed the matrix was fast disappearing. Panic - I did find some though - not bad - different from the first find in the 1980's
(Chris Jewson got the very first for Britain) these are more glass like and usually solid. September brought the climax with langite and associated sulphates and carbonates - some look
like they contain zinc so there could be rosasite and aurichalcite present. The langites are stunning.
I should also mention the 'Shell' collectors who come and stay with us. John Fisher brought Derek Howlett,
David Hutchinson and Simon Taylor down in March to look for shells.
These are no ordinary beachcombers - they are finding new species for Cornwall, recording and reporting them
to Cornwall's records department. It is all very exciting but I must admit not really my scene.
Shells aren't very lively - apart from the odd bivalve that squirts water at you. Though one can eat some of them!
I know minerals don't move either but to find them is a real physical effort which I like.
Finally there are our stalwart band of walkers whose prime job is to keep Steve fit as he is their leader.
These are the ones who spot the Basking Shark off the coast for us. You might be interested to know that
there was one seen off St. Loy Cove, West Penwith in December.
Steve says that is reputed to be the warmest place in Cornwall - perhaps that is why.
Finally just to say from myself and Steve 'Wishing you all what you would wish for yourselves in 2008'.
LINKS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Http://www.orca-seafaris.com Adventure of a lifetime. Well organised
sea trips with
the knowledgeable Captain Keith on his eco-boat - the Seaquest - out from Falmouth.
On earlier trips we have had basking shark come up to the boat, gannets fly across the bow, sea gulls land
on the boat, watched puffins, seen fish feeding and more. Awesome, thrilling.
Http://www.strahlen.org Includes pictures by Jos Hens of his week
with us in September 2003. Impressive European site run by Frank de Wit.
Http://www.mineral-paradise.net We saw him first! Quality site web-mastered by an excellent collector with cracking photo's, swaps, for sale Run by Richard Bell.
http://rockhounds.com Bobs Rock Shop - run by Bob Keller - big USA site with loads of links. Everything and anything to do with
minerals on here. Been around years.
http://www.minerant.org
Belgium site and very comprehensive
Http;//interestholidayscornwall.co.uk Cornwall Connect - site I pay to advertise on which shows extracts from our
Brochure (can be out of date but gives you a general idea) and links to other accommodation and lots info on Cornwall
http://www.cornwalldevonmineralspecimens.co.uk Mike Merry's site. Cornwall and Devon Minerals. The best site to find Cornish mineral specimens for sale
including old timers and some you won't find anywhere else; interesting photographs
http://www.geolithos.be Geologische Vereniging Limburg - Belgium Mineral Club site - Very friendly and knowledgeable
hard working collectors. Their Chairman is Stefan Kempeneers. If you are in Belgium these lads are worth looking up
Http://www.norfolkminerallapidarysociety.comNew for 2006 -
Hosted by Martin Stolworthy - My favourite mineral club who have helped keep us in business for years!Hardworking, fun,
knowledgeable group.
http://www.thecrystalman.co.uk Mike Jackson's site - If you ever get to Glastonbury
pay his shop a visit. He and Jenny are lovely 'down to earth' people. The shop sells all sorts of minerals including unusual carved pieces, crystals, polished stones etc. Mike deserves great success with this business.
NOT LINKED/RECOMMENDED/READING/SERVICES
www.mindat.org Comprehensive
Award winning British site hosted by Jolyon Ralph. Impressive amount of information on UK and some foreign minerals and
sites. Includes pictures of obscure minerals not found elsewhere
UK JOURNAL OF MINES AND MINERALS Wonderful photographs. Edited by mineral collectors. British answer to Mineralogical Record. Circulation - E-mail jean.spence@tesco.net
PERRAN OPTICAL REPAIRS Microscope Service and Sales, Binoculars repaired and serviced
Contact Nigel Hoppe Tel: 01872 571137
www.www.mikon-online.com - I found this company when looking at the Munich Mineral Club site on their links page. Really comprehensive site for everything you need to collect and understand minerals - including a portable geiger counter! I haven't bought anything off them yet but prices look very reasonable for a foreign company.
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