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Our unique services to help people do something different as a
memorial feature have developed from personal experience.
Mary's mother Brenda Dale died of cancer in 1996. Following
her cremation, Mary wanted to do something different in her memory.
She installed 2 hand-crafted and beautifully carved oak stiles on
footpaths in the Peak District National Park, after a lengthy
process of consultation with the relevant authorities. These
stiles were on footpaths and in places that her mother had known
when she was alive and where people who knew her will use them, as
well as many other walkers. The new stiles replaced
existing dilapidated ones and were much needed improvements to the
public footpath network.
This concept has grown into the provision of a service to help
others who want to give something to the environment, either locally
or in another favourite place, to bring about community benefits and
positive improvements, as a special way to remember a loved one.
The aim of our special memorial projects is
to link our clients requests to improvements that are needed, but
which may have a low priority for funding from other sources.
Projects that we undertake will give benefits to local communities, enhance
environmental quality
and add to landscape character and diversity in both urban and rural
situations.
We have
established a national network of artist craftspeople, all carefully
researched, with whom we work to create beautiful and practical
features of all kinds.
As well as memorial features for private
individuals, this resource of superb craftsmanship using sustainable
materials is also available to a wide variety of other clients for
environmental art projects, including:
statutory and local authorities, nature reserves, green burial
grounds, property developers, garden designers, architects and other
construction industry professionals.
(Please note that we work on projects
that are needed - whatever type of feature that may involve.
We do not install stiles as a matter of course. If such a feature is
needed, then we liaise with all involved to establish whether a gate
or kissing gate would be more appropriate to enable easier access
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