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Welsh Slate Helps Build a Bridge to 2030

A showcase of Welsh Slate products will feature on the ‘Terrence Higgins Trust Bridge to 2030 garden’ at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show this year (May 21-25).
 
Welsh Slate Helps Build a Bridge to 2030
 
Supported by grant-giving charity Pr... (more)
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Welsh Slate Helps All Souls from the End of an Era to a New One

The only surviving church by the Georgian/Regency architect John Nash is enjoying a new lease of life in its bicentenary, thanks to Welsh Slate.
 
All Souls Church, in the Harley Street Conservation Area of Marylebone, London, has been reroofed with 20” x 12&rdquo... (more)
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Welsh Slate Tops an 18-year Campaign to Re-open a Listed Lido

The UK's oldest public open-air swimming baths, once used as a trout farm, are enjoying a new lease of life, thanks in part to Welsh Slate.
 
Photos (top): Beard Construction; (bottom) Suzy Slemen Photography
 
Some 75m2 of Welsh Slate's new... (more)
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Welsh Slate and Breedon Special Aggregates to Storm the Palace at Hampton

Hard on the heels of the Chelsea Flower Show, Welsh Slate and Breedon Special Aggregates are supplying celebrated garden designer Paul Hervey-Brookes with materials for his latest garden at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show.
 
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Welsh Slate is a Peerless Performer in a Pioneering Peninsular Town

A church in one of the first Conservation Areas in Wales has been given a new lease of life, thanks in part to Welsh Slate.
 
Pioneering Peninsular Town
 
Some 130m2 of Welsh Slate's roofing slates have replaced their 150-year-old predecessors o... (more)
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Welsh Slate Helps a Historic Railway Station Get Back Online

One of the earliest surviving railway stations in the world is enjoying a new lease of life, and TV stardom, thanks in part to Welsh Slate.
 
Derbyshire Historic Buildings Trust and ASBC Conservation and Heritage Specialists
 
Some 4,200 or 230m2 of... (more)
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Welsh Slate and Breedon Special Aggregates Products Feature on Four Chelsea Flower Show Gardens

A plethora of products from Breedon Special Aggregates and Welsh Slate, part of the Breedon Group, feature on a quartet of gardens at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show (May 22-27).
 
Pictured top, bottom from left: the RBC Brewin Dolphin Garden; the Shifting Garden,... (more)
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Architectural and Landscaping Products from Welsh Slate Feature on Award-winning Illustrator's New Home

Award-winning British comic book artist and illustrator Charlie Adlard is enjoying a new lease of life in a new home featuring a building material that is seriously old!
 
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Charlie has been a “veteran” of the comic industry ... (more)
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Breedon Group Extends Commitment to Sustainable Rail Infrastructure

A joint initiative between Breedon Group, Network Rail and the Welsh Government has brought the disused Llandudno Junction freight yard sidings back to life.
 
Breedon Group Sustainable Rail Infrastructure
 
The Llandudno Junction freight yard had n... (more)
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Welsh Slate and Breedon Special Aggregates Aid the Return of Container Gardens at RHS Chelsea

Hard landscaping products, including decorative aggregates from Welsh Slate and Breedon Special Aggregates will complement the return to the 2022 Chelsea Flower Show of the container gardens introduced last year.
 
Brewin Dolphin garden and Mandala, meditation and mindf... (more)
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