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Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 10:42 pm
by steve leeds
I'm looking to use natural stone setts for a drive way. The setts shown in the street (with red doors in picture)on your website page on "loose filling" for setts and cubes look fantastic -with the type of colour variation I'm looking for.
Can you please tell me what they are and/ or can you recommend any natural stone setts for drive use with quite strong yellow/ brown / grey colours.
PS Great website for anyone trying to learn more about paving/ setts etc 
Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2004 6:25 pm
by ABILITY
Steve.
Just looked at photo you mention.
Look to me like natural ( British ) York stone setts, sawn and tumbled.
Check out link to George Farrar's site on suppliers links, they do these sort of setts, with similar colour range.
I think they now do online ordering as well.
Sure there are other suppliers / quarries producing similar, no doubt someone will add to suggestion.
Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2004 12:13 pm
by 84-1089053830
Those setts are ackshirley Marshalls, or at least the photo is. They will be sourced from more or less the same place as George Farrar's, but typically have a bit of a price premium.
They are, for the record, a Greenmoor Rustic Sett, so they're a Pennine stone, from N. Yorkshire. You have to be careful, as Marshalls also sell a "Haworth Moor" sett that has never been anywhere near Haworth - they're from India, but by giving the setts (and the flags that go with them) a 'Yorkshire" name, the plan seems to be to con folk into not questioning the true source. I think this is deceitful, and I know I won't make any new friends at Marshalls for saying so, but aren't 'Yorkshire folk' supposed to be famed for straight talking and calling a spade a spade? If so, why are they calling Indian Stone by a West Riding name?