1836 |
Craig's Court, London (a cul–de–sac on the south side of Whitehall, about 100 yards from Trafalgar Square)
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1841 |
Craig's Court Museum was opened to the public in 1841 with Richard Phillips as Curator.
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1845 |
Office based in Museum of Economic Geology
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1851 |
12 May 1851 – Opening of The Museum of Practical Geology in Jermyn Street with frontage also on Piccadilly.
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1872 |
Departments of Chemistry, Physics and Natural History, Royal School of Mines moved to South Kensington
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1880 |
Geology, Royal School of Mines, moved to South Kensington
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1934 |
Exhibition Road. New Museum of Practical Geology, later known as the Geological Museum, Exhibition Road
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1956-1971 |
Young Street, Kensington. A disused Post Office was rented in 1956 to house the Atomic Energy
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1966 |
64 Gray's Inn Road London. WC1X 8NG Geochemical Division from Young Street moved there over the period 1968–71
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1967–1981 |
5 Princes Gate. Housed the London–based field units, the Drawing Office, the Geophysics Unit and, for a time, the Overseas Division.
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1969 |
Gorst Road. Stores/workshops. Gorst Road was acquired because the development of the Engineering Geology Unit had forced the evacuation of 'The Tank' in 1969 to make way for laboratories.
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Bashley Road Acton. Stores/workshops
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1970–1976 |
199 Knightsbridge. Mineral Assessment Unit, which had started in Princes Gate but had rapidly outgrown available space there, was installed in a conventional office block at 199 Knightsbridge, opposite the Cavalry Barracks. 1976 moved to Keyworth
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1973 |
154 Clerkenwell Road, London EC1R 5DU. Geochemical Division had outgrown the Grays Inn Road building and had expanded into a converted warehouse at 154 Clerkenwell Road, where it was joined by the Overseas Division in 1974.
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1985 |
Geological Museum passes to the Natural History Museum
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