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13 August 2010 | Stone Heritage
Midland Conservation have rapidly established themselves an enviable reputation in the conservation, restoration and refurbishment of historic buildings. That is not really surprising, because...
13 August 2010 | Stone Heritage
Hanson Bath & Portland Stone (B&PS), who supply Bath, Cotswold and Portland limestones, are supplying worked stone for projects that are part of the multi-million redevelopment of Cardiff.One...
13 August 2010 | Stone Heritage
Since Jo Bonser took over the family firm where she had worked for 17 years three years ago she has put a lot of effort into expanding the business out from the masonry cleaning base for which the...
13 August 2010 | Stone Heritage
This month (July), after NSS had gone to press, London stone and conservation specialists PAYE were due to remove the scaffolding from around the Grade II* Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross railway...
13 August 2010 | Stone Heritage
The finishing touches of a major, five-year programme of phased restoration work at the Royal Pavilion in Brighton carried out by Croydon stone and conservation specialists Stonewest are just coming...
13 August 2010 | Stone Heritage
The most famous geological feature of Northern Ireland is the Giant’s Causeway in north Antrim, formed of 40,000 hexagonal columns of basalt. A World Heritage Site since 1986, in the 18th...
13 August 2010 | Stone Heritage
Northern Ireland’s best known stone specialists, outside their home territory as well as within it, are S McConnell & Sons, based in Kilkeel, who have earnt themselves a reputation for...
13 August 2010 | Stone Heritage
A tree fossil discovery at Lander’s Quarries on Purbeck in Dorset is being described by paleobotanists as the most significant find of its kind since the Lulworth fossils in the 19th century....
19 July 2010 | Stone Heritage
In the March issue of Natural Stone Specialist, sculptor Tim Crawley, a Director of masons and carvers Fairhaven & Woods in Cambridge, argued that the reinstatement of an Elizabethan garden at...
19 July 2010 | Stone Heritage
English Heritage and the Heritage Lottery Fund have announced grants of just under £7million to help restore 68 of the country’s historic Grade II listed places of worship of different...
19 July 2010 | Stone Heritage
Following the £61million renovation of Oxford’s oldest museum, the Ashmolean, including the renovation of internal Portland limestone work by London masons Putney & Wood, Oxford...
15 June 2010 | Stone Heritage
Our thanks to reader Ralph Dransfield, an architect, for sending in this photo after seeing the block of Portland limestone pictured in the previous issue of Natural Stone Specialist. Ralph told us...
15 June 2010 | Stone Heritage
Wales might be best known for its slate, but its varied geology also includes granite, sandstone and limestone that all contribute to its built heritage.When you think of Wales you tend to think of...
17 May 2010 | Stone Heritage
A grant of £290,500 from English Heritage has helped remove privately-owned Mettingham Castle, just outside Bungay in Suffolk, from the Buildings At Risk register. To stabilise the tower, holes...
17 May 2010 | Stone Heritage
The varied geology of Scotland has created distinct built environments that stretch back 5,000 years.The geological history of Scotland has given the nation as wide a range of stones as are to be...