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Monday, May 23rd, 2011
Well another exhilerating weekend has come and gone!!
Stonemasons descended on this beautiful example of a Medieval town to carve an unknown stone in order to help raise money for St Laurences Church in Ludlow.
We were given the choice of two sizes of local sandstone from a quarry near Shrewsbury-it was incredibly abrasive and ...
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Monday, May 16th, 2011
Really looking forward to this event on the 21st and 22nd May, for more information please visit
http://www.stlaurences.org.uk/ludlow-conservation-weekend
This promises to be a very exciting weekend with many interesting events talks and walk as well as the opportunities to watch professional stonemasons at work, at the end you will have the opportunity ...
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Thursday, May 12th, 2011
Thank-you to everyone who came and supported me at this years event!
My carving from last year raised £120 for The Pied Piper Appeal and Gloucester Cathedral. The auction was drawn on the Saturday and the lucky winners were very proud to win my Gargoyle!
Over the whole weekend I carved a ...
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Monday, April 11th, 2011
Well I finally have confimation of the site!
I will be organising an International Stonemasons Festival in 2013 at The Llanthony Secunda Priory in Gloucester. It is located near the docks on the canal!
The charities that this event will be supporting are The Llanthony Priory Trust and The Gloucestershire Geology Trust.
I ...
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Sunday, December 5th, 2010
THE GREATER CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE, LUDLOW
STONE CARVING FESTIVAL
Saturday 21 – Sunday 22 May 2011
An invitation to masons, carvers, sculptors and stonework apprentices to take part in a Stone Carving Festival organised by The Conservation Trust for St Laurence, Ludlow, as a fund-raising event to contribute to the £27,000 urgently ...
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