Cotswolds annual dry-stone walling competition to take place at Gatcombe Park | Cash prizes!

http://www.cotswoldnews.com/news/2419/cotswolds-annual-dry-stone-walling-competition-to-take-place-at-gatcombe-park

Sounds like fun!

Park That Bike - Enabling you to request bike parking - For FREE !

http://www.parkthatbike.info/

A good website hopefully helps some folks interested in this

What can we learn from the ‘Deutsche Mentality’ towards historic building conservation? Kerrie Smith | The VAR Initiative Leonardo Blog

http://thevarinitiative.wordpress.com/2012/08/28/what-can-we-learn-from-the-deutsche-mentality-towards-historic-building-conservation-kerrie-smith/

Simon

£2m conservation project in Boston unveiled by Heritage Lincolnshire | This is Lincolnshire

http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/pound-2m-conservation-project-Boston-unveiled/story-16874636-detail/story.html

Simon

It has ramifications for town’s Conservation Area status - Letters - Hebden Bridge Times

http://m.hebdenbridgetimes.co.uk/community/letters/it-has-ramifications-for-town-s-conservation-area-status-1-4926458

Day school explores historic buildings (From Craven Herald)

http://www.cravenherald.co.uk/news/9928671.Day_school_explores_historic_buildings/

Caithness stone used in clipper restoration

http://www.johnogroat-journal.co.uk/News/Caithness-stone-used-in-clipper-restoartion-06092012.htm

Ancient stones revealed on tapestry - The Art Newspaper

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Ancient-stones-revealed-on-tapestry/27052

New Stone Conservation Supplies features on our online shop!

We have been busy listening to what you would like to see added to our online shop and we now offer the following features:

1. Login or sign up with your Facebook, Google, linkedin or twitter account etc to save remembering another password to login!

2. You can share your purchase on Facebook, Twitter or Google+ to let your friends and followers know what you have bought from us. Please link to our shop when possible as this helps us get known as we only started in May this year.

3. Online contact form - if you can't find what you need let us know! We'd love to hear from you.

If there are any other useful features you would like to see please drop me a line.

Happy shopping, Simon

RICS and SPAB join forces for building conservation Summer School | Press Releases | Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors

http://www.rics.org/site/scripts/press_article.aspx?pressreleaseID=908

Plans to outsource council heritage work come under fire from experts | Local government network | Guardian Professional

http://www.guardian.co.uk/local-government-network/2012/sep/07/outsource-conservation-officer-private-sector?newsfeed=true

What are your thoughts on this? Simon