Leiths Newsletter Issue 22 - Magazine - Page 10
Leiths News : NATURAL STONE
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FYFE GLENROCK name change to LEITHS NATURAL STONE
In January this year, Fyfe Glenrock transitioned to the new company trading name of Leiths Natural Stone
with the roll out of our updated website and social media platforms.
Leiths Natural Stone can trace its history back 160 years to 1846, to its original founder John Fyfe who established the original business
at Kemnay, some 20 miles northwest of Aberdeen.Since that time, the famous silver-grey granite that was quarried at Kemnay has adorned
many prestigious buildings throughout Aberdeen, including Marischal College, which is the second largest granite building in the world after
The Escorial, the King of Spain’s historical palace near Madrid. The same granite was also used in the construction of the Thames
Embankment, the Waldorf Hotel in London and many notable buildings throughout the UK and the world. Our own reception area at HQ
in Cove is floored with Kemnay granite.
With the supply of Kemnay silver-granite now exhausted, Leiths Natural Stone imports many different and exotic natural stones from around
the world, including China, India, Portugal, Brazil and Scandinavia. These are cut, polished and engraved by the 17 strong Team at the
purpose-built facility in Oldmeldrum. Here, a wide range of architectural components are produced as well as monuments and memorials,
kitchen and bathroom surfaces and street and garden furniture.
Leiths Natural Stone will continue to promote its unique products and services supplying and crafting natural granites, whinstones,
sandstones and marbles for projects across the UK and internationally.
SWINDON TOWN FOOTBALL CLUB
DON ROGERS MEMORIAL
In 2024 Leiths Natural Stone were commissioned by Swindon Town FC
and Endeavour Art Studios to manufacture a memorial plinth to
honourfootballing legend Don Rogers, in conjunction with Alan
Herriot and Powderhall Bronze who supplied the bronze statue.
Leiths Natural Stone have since been asked to make another
plinth for Swindon Town FC to honour footballer and manager,
John Trollope MBE.
Leiths Natural Stone
sponsor the ASA
Annual Dinner &
Design Awards 2025
The Aberdeen Society of Architects Annual
Dinner and Design Awards showcases
and celebrates the talent of all the fantastic
architecture that is taking place within
Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire. The event
this year was held on 14 March 2025
at Union Kirk.
Finished memorial unveiled
at Swindon Town FC
on 22nd November 2024
Plinth Granite - Potuguese Pedras Salgadas
From left: Gianpiero Difranco, Gordon Duncan,
Mark Swinhoe, Richard Collinson and James Wright
3.5t polished splayed base prepared for inscription
Completed plinth ready for dispatch
