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Kirklington Hall Research Station

Kirklington Hall Research Station is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Kirklington Hall Research Station rather than just read about it. In short: Kirklington Hall Research Station was a geophysical research institute of BP in Kirklington, Nottinghamshire. During the 1950s it was the main research site of BP.

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Reference excerpt

Kirklington Hall Research Station was a geophysical research institute of BP in Kirklington, Nottinghamshire. During the 1950s it was the main research site of BP.

Background Cricketer John Boddam-Whetham was born at the site in 1843. Sir Albert Bennett, 1st Baronet, Liberal MP from 1922-23 for Mansfield, lived there from 1920. The Bennett baronets was formed in 1929. Lady Evelyn Maude Robinson, was the owner from around 1930, and the wife of Sir John Robinson of Worksop, who died aged 74 on Saturday 2 December 1944. The previous owner died aged 73 on Friday 14 December 1945, leaving £138,365 in her will. In June 1945 it was put up for auction, with 631 acres, 15 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms, and 11 servants rooms. It was sold for £24,500 in Derby in July 1945. Nottinghamshire County Council for two years was looking to buy the property, but it was a big investment, for a residential further education college; it chose another site in July 1947.

History

BP As part of the East Midlands Oil Province, oil was found in eastern Nottinghamshire. It was also known as the BP Research Centre or the Geophysical Centre, part of BP's Exploration Division. The site was acquired due to proximity of Eakring, in July 1949. The local church, with Hockerton, held garden parties at the site in the summer. The research centre was established in 1950. Its first employee was Jack Birks, later managing director of BP. From 1950 it was the main geophysical research site of BP, until BP sold the site in 1957 for £12,000. Research moved to Sunbury-on-Thames, in Surrey, in 1957. Sunbury Research Centre had been built around the same time as the Kirklington site, in the early 1950s.

Private property It was put up for sale in November 1957. In 1958 there was the possibility of the site being a teacher training college. From 1958 it was a private school, which had been formed in Southwell in 1945. It was put up for sale in 1987, with a guide price of £850,000. Kirklington Hall today is a private school.

Structure The former site is situated north of the A617.

Function It conducted geophysical research for exploration for BP. This part of BP is now known as BP Exploration. Work would be conducted on core samples and with seismic methods.

See also British Geological Survey, also in Nottinghamshire Sunbury Research Centre, where most of BP's research takes place in the UK today. Category:Petroleum geology Category:Seismology measurement

References

British Petroleum and Global Oil 1950-1975: The Challenge of Nationalism, James Bamberg, page 33

External links Our Nottinghamshire Archived 3 February 2016 at the Wayback Machine

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Kirklington Hall Research Station

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Kirklington Hall Research Station ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Kirklington Hall Research Station

In research: Kirklington Hall Research Station appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Kirklington Hall Research Station in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Kirklington Hall Research Station is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1950 establishments in England, 1957 disestablishments in England, BP buildings and structures, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Kirklington Hall Research Station outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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What is Kirklington Hall Research Station in simple terms?

Kirklington Hall Research Station was a geophysical research institute of BP in Kirklington, Nottinghamshire. During the 1950s it was the main research site of BP.

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