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The Book

In 1947 the Hopton-Wood Stone Firms Ltd  commissioned a book dedicated to Hopton-Wood Stone.  It served then to extol the stones virtue to the Architect and to the Craftsman.  The book also describes the geological oddities, commencing some 280 million years ago, that resulted in the formation of the rocks from which the stone was extracted.

Section 1    The Geology

Section 2    The Architect

Section 3    The Craftsman

    Cover                        Publisher details                Frontispiece

     Linen                         Fanfare press                   Derby Ram

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Last modified: May 14, 2002

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