The North Yorkshire Moors Railway is set to host a Dry Stone Walling Taster Day to engage the public in the restoration of 500 meters of historic dry stone walls.
What is a dry stone wall? A dry stone wall is built with only one ingredient - natural stone. There’s no mortar gluing everything together or backup made of concrete blocks. How does it stay up? You ...
Ever heard of dry stone walling? It’s worth investigating if you’re looking for a ruggedly beautiful, green type of fence that stands the test of time. Read our interview with John Bland of Montreal’s ...
In what is planned to be the first in a series of educational workshops that promote the arts, cultural heritage and agriculture, the Parmelee Farm in Killingworth will play host to a workshop on the ...
John Shaw-Rimmington started building dry stone walls after the stones themselves complained to him. It was the 1980s, and he was living in Ontario, working for clients who wanted decorative stone ...
Stone walls have purpose, personality and permanence. Historically, their purpose was to contain livestock, define boundaries and serve as convenient storage for the many rocks removed from fields to ...
When we're grown-ups, things get just a little more serious when we plan to use a dry-laid stone wall as a landscape feature. The idea is the same as when kids stack some rocks, and the only ...