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Kendal: Parkin and Jackson
Parkin and Jackson masons
Street:-   Appleby Road
locality:-   Kendal
civil parish:-   Kendal (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   mason's
locality type:-   workplace
coordinates:-   SD52099329
1Km square:-   SD5293
10Km square:-   SD59

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BRJ47.jpg (taken 4.9.2009)  
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BRJ48.jpg  Sign, advertising the quality of their work.
(taken 4.9.2009)  

JandMN : 401
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BXO42.jpg  Rock, hand specimen of Shap granite, perhaps from Shap Pink Quarry? Shap Rural, Westmorland, NY557083.
(taken 4.9.2009)  
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BXO43.jpg  Rock, hand specimen of Shap granite, perhaps from Shap Pink Quarry? Shap Rural, Westmorland, NY557083.
The core is from a gravestone being made by Parkin and Jackson, 12 Appleby Road, Kendal.
Ordovician or Lower Devonian.
The grey crystals are quartz; silcon dioxide, Si02.
The white crystals are feldspars; sodium aluminium silicate, NaAlSi3O8, or potassium aluminium silicate, KAlSi3O8, or calcium aluminium silicate, CaAl2Si2O3.
The black crystals are biotie or perhaps hornblende, complicated lattice silicates.
This is a porphyry; the larger pink crystals are orthoclase feldspar; these phenocrysts indicate a very slow cooling of the igneous intrusion.
(taken 4.9.2009)  

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BRJ65.jpg  Roughing out an inscription.
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BRJ56.jpg  Inscription being roughed out.
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BRJ66.jpg  Roughing out an inscription.
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BRJ57.jpg  Chisel, hammer, ruler etc.
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BRJ58.jpg  Gravestone, being inscribed.
(taken 4.9.2009)  

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BRJ49.jpg  Office window; membership sign for the Stone Federation and the National Association of Memorial Masons.
(taken 4.9.2009)  
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BRJ62.jpg  Scribing out work to do.
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BRJ64.jpg  Scribing out a circle.
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BRJ50.jpg  Polishing machine.
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BRJ61.jpg  Polishing heads.
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BRJ53.jpg  Drill press.
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BRJ54.jpg  Circular saw.
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BRJ55.jpg  Circular saw.
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BRJ63.jpg  Circular saw
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BRJ52.jpg  G clamps and a hammer.
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BRJ60.jpg  Lifting clamps.
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BRJ51.jpg (taken 4.9.2009)  
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BRJ67.jpg  Lorry.
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BRJ68.jpg  Piles of stone offcuts.
(taken 4.9.2009)  
person:-   mason
 : Parkin, Mr
person:-   mason
 : Jackson, Mr
date:-   2009
item:-   gravestone; memorial
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