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15 October 2021 | Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
Nationwide hard landscaping materials supplier London Stone has announced it is opening a 450m2 showroom in Eastleigh, Hampshire, two minutes from J13 of the M3. The plan is to open it early in...
15 October 2021 | Training
West Dean College of Arts & Conservation has launched a new 12-month programme of building conservation Master Classes with, for the first time, a Conservation & Repair of Tile Roofing course...
14 October 2021 | Events
If you would like to contribute to the debate about the future of the stone industry, submit your proposal for a paper now to [email protected]'Stone Digital – Shaping a Sustainable...
14 October 2021 | Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
Lovell Stone Group has a new Basebed seam of Bath Stone from its Hartham Park underground quarry in Corsham, just outside Bath in Wiltshire. It is identified as Hartham Park Bath Stone T2 Basebed....
14 October 2021 | Training
The Building Crafts College, one of the top colleges in the country for learning stonemasonry and joinery, is offering at least 12 people looking for a career in the crafts to spend a fully-funded...
14 October 2021 | Training
A new level 4 Skills Bootcamp, part of the Government’s Lifetime Skills Guarantee & Plan for Jobs programme, is being launched at South Devon College next month (November). Following...
13 October 2021 | Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
Stamford Stone is extracting block stone from its Clipsham Bidwells Quarry in Lincolnshire, formerly known as Davenport Handley Quarry or Bullimores Quarry. Stamford Stone Director Dan Wilson...
12 October 2021 | Equipment
Machinery, tools and consumables supplier Waters Group has spent a lot of time in the past year looking for the best surface repair kits. Now it has products to repair both quartz and ceramic/...
10 October 2021 | Market Intelligence
David Coster, the plain speaking Director of Advanced Stone & Masonry Supplies, which sells Stain Proof and Tenax sealers and glues, talks to Theo Constanti of The Marble Group in Hatfield,...
8 October 2021 | Natural Stone Memorials
Ernest Joyce, who served on the Antarctic expeditions of both Scott and Shackleton, now has a blue plaque on a purpose-made plinth in his home town of Felpham in West Sussex, thanks to Felpham Parish...
8 October 2021 | Market Intelligence
Some in construction, including some in the stone industry, think the UK achieving Net Zero carbon emissions has nothing to do with them. They are wrong. It will involve every business in the country...
8 October 2021 | Training
The Cathedrals’ Workshop Fellowship (CWF) has resumed face-to-face training at cathedrals after 19 challenging months of online teaching. The delayed ‘Covid Cohort’ of...
8 October 2021 | Stone Heritage | 1 Comment
In medieval England, Purbeck Marble was widely used to decorate important buildings. Now English Heritage has published a new guide on how to preserve what remains of it. Following a webinar on...
4 October 2021 | Events
Marmo+Mac, the big international Italian stone exhibition, was back in the fairground in Verona 29 September–2 October after being online only in the face of the coronavirus pandemic last year....
2 October 2021 | Events
An exhibition called 'The Nereids: contemporary carvings and lettering artistry’ is presented by the Lettering Arts Trust as part of London Craft Week. It is at Trinity House on Tower Hill...