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We’re currently on lockdown but fortunately have a good stretch of river within walking distance. It doesn’t make up for not being able to get to the coast but it’s better than nothing. 
Picture 2 is a couple of possible crinoid stems that we found. Pictures 3 & 4 I think are some of the rugose coral that are pretty common round here. 
Does picture 1 look like it contains any evidence of fossil? I wasn’t sure enough to carry it home but left it somewhere I can retrieve it from later if it is fossil.

 Thank you in advance 

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Yes, they're crinoid columnals.

The corals are a mixture of rugose - mostly solitary, presumably Dibunophyllum, Koninckophyllum etc. The lower one in the third photo is colonial, Diphyphyllum being common in what I suspect the rock is (Great Limestone). :)

The first one is a sandstone with churned up clasts of limonitic rock, from the Namurian deltaic beds. You sometimes see bits of carbonised plant material in it. 

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