Kentish rag features in new Aldi store

Kentish Ragstone is now on daily show to thousands of shoppers and passers-by at the newly opened Aldi supermarket in Maidstone, Kent.

The store has more than 130m2 of dressed Kentish Ragstone in the walls of the building and 14 tonnes of random Kentish Ragstone in the boundary walls. All the stone was sourced from Gallagher Group’s Hermitage Quarry a few miles outside the county town of Kent.

Nick Yandle, Chief Executive of Gallagher Group, based in Maidstone, says: “Gallagher is now the only supplier of build quality Kentish Ragstone… we are committed to provide this distinctive building material long into the future for use on buildings and structures, old and new.”