Roofing business scales new heights with heritage work

A NORTH Staffordshire roofing business is scaling new heights after securing a series of contracts.

The work being carried out by Rydale Roofing is also helping to preserve the industrial heritage of the Potteries.

The family-owned business has been appointed to re-roof the Grade Two Listed Enson Works at Longton and historic terraced homes in Middleport and Hanley.

The Enson Works is being restored as part of the CoRE (Centre of Refurbishment Excellence) project to create a training, conference and exhibition space for companies working in the renewable energy industry.

The homes in Port Street and Burgess Street, Middleport, and Balfour Street, Hanley, are being renovated by the Prince’s Regeneration Trust via the Red Brick Green House Project, which was part of the former North Staffordshire RENEW programme.

The trust is working in the area after it helped to save the historic Middleport Pottery – one of the projects to secure support in the first phase of the Government’s Regional Growth Fund.

Rydale Roofing, based in Newcastle-under-Lyme, was founded by husband and wife Mick and Julie Mirowski, after Mick lost his job as a miner during the pit closure programme in the early 1990s.

Work on the two projects will also be a family affair as Rydale is working in partnership with joinery specialists, J & R Construction, run by John McAdam and their son, Ryan Mirowski.

Mrs Mirowski said: “Rydale Roofing was set up in North Staffordshire and all our workers are local people and it gives us great satisfaction to be chosen to work on two major heritage contracts in the area.

“It is pleasing to see that local companies can win these contracts especially those in the public sector such as CoRE. We have also recently worked with Aspire Housing on housing schemes in Newcastle borough.”

Both projects require Rydale Roofing to source and work with heritage products as the tiles must replicate those used in the original builds.