As we went to press the stone industry was still waiting to discover what, if anything, would be happening to Rattee & Kett, the specialist masonry, joinery and conservation company in Cambridgeshire, following the takeover of parent Mowlem by Carillion in February. Rattee & Kett was due to close on 12 May, but rumours abounded that the assets would be bought, possibly with the masonry and joinery interests going to different buyers. Rattee & Kett were identified by Mowlem as a non-core business before Christmas. Mowlems other masonry site, A J Woods in Norwich, which they bought in 2004, was closed in February and later the assets bought by Lady Fairhaven of Anglesey Abbey. She also owns a masonry and carving business called Fairhaven of Anglesey Abbey in Cambridgeshire, which she helped Tim Crawley set up after he left Rattee & Kett as their head carver in 1999.