Use Of English Test 5 – The Best Stone In The World

In 1769 George and Eleanor Coade bought a factory manufacturing artificial stone in southeast London on a groundterritoryplaceplot at Pedlar’s Acre, south fromoftothan the river. The family were justhoweveralreadyyet running a successful factory in the south-west of England. Within a year of moving toinaton the capital, George Coade died, leaving his wife and daughter to getruncarrygo on the business. The Coade Stone they perfected waswouldclaimedhad to become the most permanent stone ever made. The product developed by the factory’s former landlordownerpossessortenant, Richard Holt, was a kind of baked clay. The two women experiencedtestedexperimentedtried with his recipe, and completedsucceededmanagedachieved in creating a new kind of stone which was almost a hundred percent weather-proof.

The advantage of Coade Stone is that while natural stone slowly breaks down and erodes away, Coade Stone seems to be ablecapablepossiblegood to survive in all weather conditions for many years. The National Gallery, the Royal Opera House and Buckingham Palace onlystillyetjust display their original ornaments made of Coade Stone. EachBothEitherAlso mother and daughter were clever businesswomen. They workedstaffedemployedteamed only the top artists of the day to model their stone into statues and other ornaments.

After the deaths of Eleanor Coade and her daughter the factory survived for twenty years, but in 1840 it lastlyin the endfinallyat last closed. With it went the Coade Stone recipe which was lostleftmissingdisappeared, and has never been rediscovered.