Natural Stone Memorials
The latest news from the Stone Industry
8 April 2015 | Natural Stone Memorials
David Francis is a hands-on mason who has specialised for many years on the memorial side of the stone industry. He was Technical Advisor to the National Association of Memorial Masons, writing...
9 March 2015 | Natural Stone Memorials
A medic who died in Burma (now Myanmar) during World War II has received fitting commemoration at his Mawlamyine (Moulmein) grave 68 years later, thanks to the intervention of the Commonwealth War...
9 March 2015 | Natural Stone Memorials
Baroness D'Souza, Speaker of the House of Lords, led a UK parliamentary delegation to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) cemetery at Gauhati, India, yesterday (19 February) to pay...
4 March 2015 | Natural Stone Memorials
In the past the memorial mason’s work was pretty much defined. Our priorities were (and still are) to build a reputation of designing and producing quality memorials, understanding exactly what...
21 January 2015 | Natural Stone Memorials
His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent, President of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC), unveiled new interactive panels at the most visited war grave site in Flanders today (6 November).The...
21 January 2015 | Natural Stone Memorials
Anton Matthews, maker of the Stone-Safe memorial fixing system that he demonstrated against a ground anchor fixing system near his premises in Bognor Regis earlier in the year (see bit.ly/fixing...
21 January 2015 | Natural Stone Memorials
The war memorial in Horndean, Hampshire, had something missing. The lamp on top of it just did not match up to what was needed. The monument was dedicated in 1920 when it was unveiled by Lady Drury-...
21 January 2015 | Natural Stone Memorials
On Armistice Day at 10.45am, a World War I commemorative stone sundial was unveiled in Drewsteignton Village Garden for a service of remembrance. It was made by the masons of stone and conservation...
21 January 2015 | Natural Stone Memorials
David Francis is a hands-on mason who has specialised for many years on the memorial side of the stone industry. He was Technical Advisor to the National Association of Memorial Masons, writing...
8 January 2015 | Natural Stone Memorials
Hamsphire stone specialist stoneCIRCLE was commissioned to supply, letter and install the Normandy Campaign Memorial that has joined so many other memorials at the National Memorial Arboretum at...
8 January 2015 | Natural Stone Memorials
Victoria Wallace has been appointed as the new Director General of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC). She joins after 10 years as Chief Executive at Leeds Castle Foundation &...
8 January 2015 | Natural Stone Memorials
This month (October) saw the release of the 2014 AXA SunLife Cost of Dying Report, with contributions from researchers at the Centre for Death & Society at the University of Bath. It highlights...
17 October 2014 | Natural Stone Memorials
David Francis is a hands-on mason who has specialised for many years on the memorial side of the stone industry. He was Technical Advisor to the National Association of Memorial Masons, writing...
The Duke of Kent (left) and the President of Ireland, Michael D Higgins, at the unveiling of Ireland's first Cross of Sacrifice. It is in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, mounted on a cross of Irish Blue limestone from McKeon Stone's Threecastles Quarry. Photo: Chris Bellew / Copyright: Fennell Photography
18 September 2014 | Natural Stone Memorials
Ireland has its first Commonwealth Cross of Sacrifice to its citizens who died after volunteering to fight with the British in the two World Wars.Made by Mckeon Stone of Irish Blue limestone from the...
18 September 2014 | Natural Stone Memorials
Ham Hill quarry company Harvey Stone has given Woodley, in Reading, Berkshire, a war memorial in time for the commemorations of the start of World War I on 4 August. It is made in Jordans Basebed...