Jamie Butterworth Blog – #OneIndustryUnited, One Year On – we take a look at what Jamie and London Stone have achieved over a twelve month period. Traveling across continents, educating industry professionals, and exploring how much we can learn from each other.

Just over a year ago, we set out on a mission to unite the industry. A bold, brave and quite surprising move to most. 

Landscapers and designers are shown how to move trees safely into place, at the inaugural Development Day at Majestic Trees – March 2018 read more

London Stone Goes Up the Wall at Futurescape – read about the 2018 show, and our new products on show

As always, for us at London Stone, it’s all about people, and Futurescape this week was no different. And this year we had something rather different from Natural Stone and Porcelain on the stand. Don’t worry, they were there too!

London Stone at Futurescape 2018 – always a busy and bustling day

On the stand, making its first appearance with us was Vistagreen, the artificial green walling. It makes part of a stunning indoor water feature wall at our new showroom in Farnham and its obvious plus points made it a no-brainer that we should introduce it to our range. read more

London Stone’s New Surrey Showroom Opens In Farnham – our fifth, and largest showroom opens

A new baby. Always exciting. And the latest addition to our family is our new Surrey Showroom, taking us out beyond the M25 into an area where so many of you are based. You won’t even have to navigate the Heathrow traffic to reach us!

London Stone’s Surrey Showroom hosting an APL Cluster Group, 12.11.2018

Very spacious, there’s plenty of room to see our products in helpfully large formats, and our displays really bring to light the enormous wealth of off-the-shelf products we offer. read more

The NGO Playing A Central Role In Eradicating Child Labour In Budhpura – a blog written by London Stone Managing Director, Steven Walley in 2016, and still relevant today

Okay, so let’s address the issue of child labour – its easy right, we just need to convince the parents to send their children to school?  Wrong! If only it was that simple.

A typical cobble yard in Budhpura, Rajasthan, India

Unfortunately, child labour is a complex issue and many factors contribute to its existence.  All the root causes are deeply ingrained into the functions of the community. Poverty, lack of quality education and facilities, widowed families, industrial disease, alcoholism, domestic abuse, lack of medical treatment, lack of access to social benefits; all contribute towards the existence of child labour. read more

Better Together: London Stone Development Day Gets Landscapers And Designers Talking – some of the industries leading figures discuss partnership

Our seventh Development Day this year carried a massive buzz and not just because so many in the industry attended. “I think it’s the best event we’ve done,” says our Horticultural Consultant, Jamie Butterworth.

Jamie Butterworth hosts an Evening of Innovation and Integration – North London Showroom, 25.11.2018

Drawn by our invitation to an Evening of Integration and Collaboration, fifty landscapers and designers arrived for three hours of discussion, networking and rather good food. read more