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...artistic skills are required for these courses, just come and enjoy yourself, discover your own creative abilities or take the first steps to a new craft career...
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The National Stone Centre's aim is to tell the 'Story of Stone' in the UK - its geological origins, the history of its working from earliest times, its multiplicity of uses, environmental issues and its contribution to landscape and art. The National Stone Centre provides: * a dramatic and nationally important Earth science site * guided trails covering geology, ecology and industrial history * Discovery Centre telling the Story of Stone, including café area and treasure shop * wide ranging services for schools, colleges and interest groups* professional services: design, geoconservation, quarry history research, site interpretation, educational advice, stone sourcing* craft skills and professional training courses related to stone: stone walling, carving, masonry, lime, conservation interpretation * Millennium Wall - a full scale outdoor 'museum' of British dry stone walls
