Monthly Archives: June 2012

There are so many different companies selling natural stone paving that actually choosing the right stone for your paving project can be a daunting prospect.  We thought we would show a few different photos of stone projects that we had completed to give you some ideas for your garden paving.   Generally there are a few [...]

A professional garden designer will have many things to consider when designing a garden.  Natural stone paving is increasingly being incorporated into professionally designed gardens and as such London Stone have a lot of contact with garden designers.  Its always interesting to work with garden designers as they are often working on interesting and creative [...]

Go back 15 years and very few people would have been familiar with natural stone paving.  Before the explosion in imported Sandstone Paving, the range of natural stone available in the UK was restricted to indigenous stones like Yorkstone and Portland stone.  British stones like these were prohibitively expensive and as such were unnafordable for [...]

Its day 5 on site in Warrington with The Original Stone Paving Co.  Cookie and the the rest of the team are flying along with their natural stone paving installation.  Sleeper walls are up, block walls are up and the shape and style of the garden is begining to show.  An excavator is being used to [...]

Its day 4 on site with The Original Stone Paving Co in Warrington, and the groundworks are almost complete.  In most of the areas we can see that the sub base has been laid and compacted.  This is always a good stage of any Exterior Stone Paving project because it means that a lot of [...]