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… on the North York Moors, or wherever I happen to be.

Tag: Stone masonry

  • “Stone is a living thing, not a piece of dead matter”

    “Stone is a living thing, not a piece of dead matter”

    In the moorland dales, the quality and excellence of available building stones are the primary factors that have influenced building construction. The Jurassic rocks have been worked in numerous quarries in all the dales and provided an abundance of stone, which has been used to build abbeys, churches, mansions, bridges, buildings in Teesside’s towns, as…