Somerset, UK - The past year has been a year when salvage came into the spotlight in more ways than one.
Television programmes featuring salvage were generally popular and SalvoNEWS stories about TV programmes attracted readers' attention. Drew Pritchard in the series 'Salvage Hunters' on Quest TV was the most popular story, followed by ITV primetime repeating the Ribble Rec and Beeston Rec 'Seeking Salvage' series. Other stories of interest here were the Home channel's series with Dan Hill and the New Reclaimers launch story and the Grand Designs salvage barges unscheduled voyage.
Auctions were also of interest to the SalvoNEWS readership. No surprises here with 'Drummonds to have pretty serious clear out', 'Cox's Yard relocation sale to be held in September' and 'Masco Walcot what a way to go' being the most popular. T W Gaze auctions and Wellers auction at the Salvo Fair were also popular stories.
Salvo Fair stories, especially the change of venue to Stubbings for 2012 and the 'Stone promotion planned for Salvo Fair Trade day' were also well read. However 'Vintage iceboxes coming to Salvo Fair' on John Bodrell was the most popular Salvo Fair story followed closely by the 'Dogs at Salvo Fair' YouTube video by guest writer Lawrence Skilling.
Guest writers increased last year with some interesting contributions. The most popular story being 'Supersize architectural salvage American style' by Françoise Murat, followed by 'Life and death and other matters of business' by Peter Jones, and 'The perils of working alone …. and God's almighty wrecking ball' by Paul Busby.
Stories informing the trade and the public were also popular. Top in this category was 'A reader asks can I remove and sell my Edwardian fireplace', 'London police launches metal theft task force' and 'Danish brick cleaner obtains EU innovation grant'. In fact stories relating to other parts of the world were a very popular choice. 'Salvaging the Snoqualmie Falls Power Company' by guest wrier David Bennink was well read along with 'Transatlantic sprung steel garden seats pop up in Gloucestershire' and 'Green roofs, turf roofs or torvaks in Norway'.
Finally, stories with celebrity or media interest were also well read. Topping the poll was 'Sam Cam slammed by Daily Mail but what happened to the old bath?', 'School desktops reused as flooring' about Retrouvius and Sam Roddick and 'Stolen icon returned by Boy George'.
So that was the result from Google analytics but please let us know the stories you enjoyed most and topics you'd like to see covered in 2012. By the way, in case anyone is interested the criteria I used for assessing popularity combined the number of viewers and the time they spent on the page.
Super size architectural salvage American style
Dogs of Salvo Fair 2011
Story Type: Feature
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Date Modified: January 19, 2012, 04:03 PM
