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Bigger and better Salvo Fair 2009
SALVO FAIR has truly gone international this year with exciting exhibitors from around Europe. The Fair will be bigger and better than last year with many exhibitors deciding to take bigger stands so there will be much more to see.
This year, look out for famous church doors and flooring, urns from a Knightsbridge hotel, Dutch tulip boxes, antique rug restoration, a massive boat, a huge piece of oak that used to be a waterwheel shaft from Germany, gravestones, a fully restored 1920‘s revolving summerhouse, lights made from WWII helmets, loads of old front doors, antique baths and fireplaces, antique French curtain accessories, Repousse demonstration, Turkish antiques, French building materials, giant metal robots, tudor model village, bits of Kevin McCloud’s eco-house, Armish metal stars, old Hungarian textiles, Belgian baskets and buckets.
The Salvo Team are looking forward to seeing you there.
Kind regards from all at Salvo x
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Dredger and antique stonework on Ronsons stand
RONSON Reclaim of Gloucestershire is bringing a recently salvaged and restored historic canal workboat blow dredger as the centrepiece to its 90ft long stand at this year's Salvo Fair.
Known as 'Debris', she was orginally registered to British Waterways as No 386, and now has a Perkins 80hp diesel engine and will be fitted with a bow-mounted blow dredger on a hydraulic arm. Also for sale on their stand, the largest at this years fair, will be antique stonework from the demolition of the Department of Physiology at Oxford University recently undertaken by Ronsons.
Ronson Reclaim
A grave matter at Salvo Fair
COX'S Architectural will be showing just a few of the 260 york stone slabs recently reclaimed from a cemetery in London at this years Salvo Fair.
These York stone slabs have many reuses as steps, platforms, benches and tables and flagstones. See Peter Watson reclining on a slab measuring 8ft x 6 ft x 5" on four staddle stone base as a table. Plus some samples of other sizes.
Peter Watson talks about the slabs
Cox's Architectural Salvage Yard
Travertine Marble at Salvo fair 2009
SCOTTISH dealer Neale Hargreaves has 600sqm of Travertine Marble flooring to bring to this years Salvo Fair. Each slab is 20mm thick and measures 940mm by 470mm.
The 600sqm is what he has left from 16,000sqm of the original flooring he reclaimed from the Royal Museum (natural history museum) on Chambers Street in Edinburgh. The museum has recently undergone a £46 million refurbishment.
Neale will be offering the flooring at a special show price of £70 a square meter.
Hargreaves Reclaimed Flooring
Tools with a mission collection at Salvo Fair
TOOLS With A Mission enables people to earn a living and support themselves. TWAM started twenty three years ago, and has since given help to people from all over the world to switch from aid dependency to self sufficiency. By collecting and refurbishing tools and equipment no longer required in the UK and sending them overseas.
Salvo have decided to collect tools for Tools With A Mission at the up-coming Salvo Fair 2009 and we are asking for your donations. If you are planning to come to the fair please bring any tools from the attached tools list with you and leave them at the Salvo exhibitor tent and we will transport them to the Tools With A Mission office.
Tools wanted list
Tools with a mission
reuse of the week
reuse planters
Planters made from heavy-duty recycled sacks and ribbon. Sizes vary but about 13cm high.
Pedlars
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Auctions
20 June 2009
Gaze, Roydon Road, Diss
Gaze Modern
Modern design, furniture and lighting, starting at 10am at T W Gaze Diss Norfolk. Viewing Thursday prior 2pm-8pm, Friday 10am-5pm, sale morning from 8.30am. Tel (UK) 01379 650306. Fax 01379 644313.
FAIRS & AUCTIONS: Please send details as early as possible, and by Thursday of the week prior at the latest
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Theft Alerts Latest Theft Alerts from Salvoweb.com
In excess of 2000 second hand clay angle and round ridge tiles mainly natureal red. From the yard of 3A roofing, Suffolk.
Large wooden eagle sculpture, from Chew Valley School on 16 May 2009.
Victorian Postbox, from Selsfield Common on 13 May 2009 stolen from front of the property.
A pair of stone pier capped pillar tops stolen from Malvern on 24 Mar 2009
 Stolen from GT SALING on 23 Mar 2009
Two matching antique carved stone garden urns. Stolen from Southfleet Kent on 21/22 March 2009
Stolen from Great Bookham, Surrey UK on 11 February 2009
 Stolen from Petworth on 3 March 2009
Stolen from Worcester Park, Surrey UK on 27 February 2009
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