With the term 'gate' derived from the old Norse 'gata', referring to a gap in the wall rather than an actual barrier, it's faintly ironic that nowadays this is essentially all you're paying for when you take the plunge and clad your house and its herbaceous peripheries in railings and wrought iron gates.

With many of today's wrought iron gates mass-produced and synonymous with low build quality, this 'gap in the wall' is barely anything more than an elaborate invitation for unwanted 'guests'.

But who says you can't be both stylish and secure?

Founded over two hundred years ago in Brading, W. Stay & Son LTD are a family business as proud of their history as they are their wrought iron gates and quality construction.

With generations of crafting wrought iron gates and railings in their forge their experience in bespoke design in second to none. In fact, some of the original tools, as used by grandfather and great-grandfather to construct the wrought iron gates of the past, as still being used, helping to sculpt and craft wrought iron gates today - and though the method may have by and large remained the same, the finished article manages to be contemporary.

With designs harking back to some of the more classic designs of the wrought iron gates of the past, visit W. Stay & Son LTD online to see some examples of the wrought iron gates they have on offer - and if you can't find a design to your tastes, the wrought iron gates from W. Stay & Son LTD can be produced to your unique design specifications.

W. Stay & Son LTD don't just specialise in wrought iron gates however, producing ranges in estate fencing, railings and garden furniture - and, as if to assuage any hesitation in their customers' deliberation over wild and flamboyant personal designs, as they proudly boast, 'if it can be made in metal, we can make it!'