Interested buyer sought for Prigmore Demolition & Salvage

Prigmore Demolition [photo Google

Bedfordshire, UK - Prigmore Demolition, one of Bedfordshire's oldest demolition and salvage businesses with an extensive yard and buildings, established in 1963, has been put on the market by its owner, Jon Prigmore, wh...

Mystery-thingy-wotsit

Mystery pot [photo © Busby

Warwickshire, UK - These mystery objects are like buses - you wait for ages then two come along. Mine is of the same ilk as Glastonbury Rec's, no registration mark, and unfortunately mine needs a repair. Also, there is ...

TV company looking for the most interesting UK salvage yards

Strathclyde, UK - IWC Media is a TV production company who is seeking to speak with some of the most interesting salvage yards in the country with a view to making an observational documentary about the work they under...

Wellers to sell C J Park pharmacy

C J Park Pharmacy [photo © Wellers

Surrey, UK - Wellers Auctioneers are to sell on 27 February at their Chertsey auction rooms an original collection comprising the contents of a Plymouth Pharmacy interior, of historical pharmaceutical goods, machi...

Will Fisher sale at Christie's totals £4m mainly on fireplaces

Georgian style marble fireplace tablet sold for £49,250 (est £2,000 - £4,000) [photo Christie's

London South West, UK - Official totals are not yet out for the single owner 477 lot sale of Will Fisher of Jamb at Christie's South Kensington on Thursday but we calculate that it made over £4m, a spectacular result which b...

Bill Bryson's testimonial about Mongers Architectural Salvage

Bill Bryson on Mongers: delightful and rewarding [photo © Salvo

Norfolk, UK - Bill Bryson OBE, writer, commissioner for English Heritage and president of the Campaign to Protect Rural England, has written Mongers of Hingham a corkingly elegant testimonial. Owner Sam Coster desc...

Webb Lamp Co Ltd Victorian sewer gas lampost listed by EH

Webb Sewer Gas Destructor lampost [photo Street View

Tyne and Wear, UK - English Heritage has listed an iron sewer gas lampost cast by 'Webb Lamp Co Ltd Birmingham' and marked 'J E Webb Patent Sewer Gas Destructor' located in Park Road, Monkseaton, Whitley Bay. The lam...

Frank Buckley's '€1.4bn' shredded euros house ~ nearer €60m?

Inside the euro home [photo © Melvin Brennan

Co Dublin, Ireland (Rep.) - Frank Buckley is an artist who bought a €360,000 house on a 100 per cent mortgage just before the market crashed leaving it worth around €220,000 and Frank with an insoluble problem. By way of com...

SWMPs could be scrapped as part of the UK red tape challenge

Hertfordshire, UK - Last September the government invited comments on environmental legislation as part of its Red Tape Challenge which aimed to reduce regulation and so promote growth and jobs. Retailers had already ...

BioRegional and social enterprise at the World Economic Forum

BioRegional is based at Bedzed [photo Salvo

Switzerland - Sue Riddlestone and Pooran Desai, founders of BioRegional Development Group which was the Schwab Social Entrepreneur of the Year Europe 2011, were invited to the World Economic Forum in Davos this wee...