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Memorial Work

Below you can see a small selection of some memorial jobs we have completed recently.

In the first two photos you can see a headstone we cleaned, restored and added an additional inscription onto before re-fixing back into a local cemetery. When we first removed the memorial we could see that there were letters missing from the inscription and over time it had become marked and dirty from the natural elements.

So we tightened the original inscription and hand cut letters to create the new wording. We chemically cleaned the memorial, transforming it back to its original beauty.

In the second two pictures is a headstone we were asked to add an addition inscription onto. On this memorial we sandblasted the new inscription to match the existing. This lettering was gilded using gold leaf to produce this classic and stylish finish.

Removal and Repaint Job - Step by Step

Our customer approached us as they wished us to do some renovation work on their loved ones memorial.

Sadly over time the memorial had sunk into the ground, and was leaning over and become unsafe. Unfortunately the paint had failed had in some of the letters, making the inscription hard to read.

Below you can see the process in step by step photos of how we brought the memorial back to new and made it safe to BRAMM standards.

Memorial

This photo was taken at the first site visit, prior to the removal. You can see the memorial has sunk into the ground and begun to lean over, making it protentially unsafe.
There is also paint missing form some of the letters of the inscription, where the paint has failed over time.

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Here is a close up of the original inscription, as you can see the paint has sadly failed, making the inscription hard to read in places.

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This is the memorial after it has been removed and brought back to the workshop. You can see the old and dirty foundation still fully attached.

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This is the inscription prior to the paint being stripped out and the stone being fully cleaned.

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This is the memorial after a clean, with all the paint fully stripped and removed.

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The stone has now had a thorough and intense clean, showing all its original lustre. The inscription has been fully repainted.

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After cleaning and painting, it is now time to remove the old dowels, so when it comes to refixing, it will all be to BRAMM standard.

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Here you can see the new dowels on the left, and the old non standard ones on the right. This gives a good understanding of why the memorial had started to move and lean over.

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The memorial is now ready to be refixed. We have installed a new reinforced concrete foundation, you can see the ground anchor in postion.

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The finished headstone in situ, placed on top of the re-cored and cleaned base.

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Completed memorial in place, with new flower containers.

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You can see there is now no moss or lichen covering the memorial, this was all removed after the intensive chemical clean and pressure wash, leaving the memorial looking like new.

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The finished memorial fully installed to Bristish Safety Standard - All new dowells, foundations and ground anchor. The customers flowers and wreaths all placed in their original postions.

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New Forest District Council - Beaulieu Cemetery

As a member of BRAMM (British Register of Accredited Memorial Masons) and a registered fixer for New Forest District Council, I was invited to tender, and was selected from many candidates, for a project in making selected older memorials safe in Beaulieu Cemetery so that the public could enjoy this wonderful old cemetery in safety.

All of the selected memorials had to be made safe, but still retain their original character and look, to stay in keeping with their beautiful surroundings.

As you can see from the pictures below many of the memorials had become almost unrecognizable over time; some had subsided and were tilting dangerously, some had cracked foundations that needed to be replaced, and some had broken parts lying on the ground.

All work was carried out to Blue Book Code of Practice (BS8415).

Below you can see a catalogue of before and after photos of the memorials that I that had been identified as unsafe. I took great pride and pleasure in bringing these back to a safe condition while preserving the lichens and patination that they had acquired over time, thus retaining their mellow, aged beauty.

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New Forest District Council

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Princes Arcade - St James, London.

The Princes Arcade is a grade II listed art deco Victorian arcade that was originally built in the 1930's, it was given a complete revamp and relaunched in 2018.

Here you can see a picture of one of the entrances to the arcade before it went through its relaunch.

I was asked to provide bronze inlaid lettering for all of the new thresholds to the arcade.

You can see below a gallery of the process from the start, to the finished design in situ.