On a beautiful day in June we visited 6 Paleozoic exposures around the West Midlands, starting off with the early Ordovician deposits of the Lickey Hills and finishing off examining late Carboniferous intrusions and extrusions at Barrow Hill. (A number of the exposures are within the Unesco Black Country GeoPark). At each exposure we discussed the depositional environment and subsequent tectonic events, always referring back to the plate tectonics model. A number of depositional environments were seen as the area from temperate shoreface deposits, through warm shelfal carbonates, to tropical continental lacustrine and deltaic settings. A field trip report is available as a download from geostart.co.uk.