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

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:43:16 +0000

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 belied the £1m estimated sale total. Expert in charge Nic McElhatton was not available fo....

Bill Bryson's testimonial about Mongers Architectural Salvage

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:21:35 +0000

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 described Bryson, a customer of Mongers, as a very jolly, warm and entertaining man. Bryson wrote: 'I....

Webb Lamp Co Ltd Victorian sewer gas lampost listed by EH

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:47:31 +0000

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 lampost is surmounted by a large lantern manufactured by William Sugg which contained three large gas m....

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

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:29:04 +0000

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 had their say, leading to the scrapping of 160 out of 258 arcane laws, such as needing an alcohol li....

On Thieves and Thieving - part one

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:44:28 +0000

I was burgled three times last year: twice at the yard and once at my house. The house was a nasty little shock - an Englishman's home and all that! Some years ago another thief had once entered the cottage and rifled through drawers in the search for cash or jewellery, neither of which they found, ....

EH advice to sell old statuary and replace with replica slammed

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:48:28 +0000

Last week, the culture minister John Penrose said that the listed building consent for the removal, repairs and replacement of 102 pieces of antique marble sculpture located in a garden temple and Pantheon at Ince Blundell Hall, now a care home run by the Augustinian Sisters, is not a matter for cen....

Taylor Wimpey demolishes 24 brand new homes

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:27:30 +0000

Residents of Noverton, Prestbury, were celebrating in December after Taylor Wimpey was forced to demolish twenty-four homes it had just built because the land had a covenant preventing its use for development. One photo showing the result of the demolition appears to show two tracked machines and....

Fry's cabinet makes �2,000 at Gaze's bygones sale

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:46:46 +0000

Top lot at the rural and domestic bygones sale at Gaze's in Diss was an Edwardian mahogany Fry's chocolate display cabinet with glass pediment, Bristol makers plaque and an etched glass front panel, 45ins high by 21ins wide by 7ins deep, which sold for £2,000 (plus 20% Buyer's Premium). Fi....

Deserted mansions of the vanished rich

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:24:58 +0000

This was a job we did a while back. A clearance of a huge house in darkest Surrey - one of those rare parts of Surrey that are so remote it could be� Sussex. This place had allegedly been the property of a Turkish Millionaire and his family until they disappeared some 20 odd years ago. Someone said ....

What to reclaim and reuse from the demolition of tower blocks

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:03:34 +0000

In early January a reader asked Salvo: 'Just looking at a potential site for demolition and reclamation. But this one is poor quality and relatively new. Do you have any good ideas on anything innovative we might do to reclaim and reuse rather than simply downcycle on a site like this?' This is S....

Glastonbury Rec seeks enlightenment on mystery object

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:24:21 +0000

Glastonbury Reclamation has a Victorian stoneware pot complete with diamond registered design mark which it would like to know more about. The design of the pot dates to 5 August 1873 with the registered design number of 274805. In December James Dash requested help in the Somerset Gazette: 'It....

Thomas Ismay's Dawpool Manor fireplace for sale on eBay

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:37:52 +0000

A 10ft high by 16ft wide marble chimneypiece in the Renaissance or Tudorbethan taste which failed to sell on eBay on Wednesday originally came from the dining room of Dawpool Manor (demolished with explosives in 1927), the mansion built by Victorian Arts & Crafts architect Norman Shaw for the fo....

Dogs and supersize salvage were popular in 2011

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:22:17 +0000

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....

Lassco, Jardinique and Robert Mills on BBC TV

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:35:57 +0000

Anthony Reeve of Lassco Three Pigeons and Edward Neish of Jardinique appeared in 'Put your money where your mouth is' and Colin Scull of Robert Mills appeared in 'Escape to the country'. 'Put your money where your mouth is' featured two competing professionals Jonty Hearnden, retired dealer from ....

Salvo Fair moves to Stubbings near Maidenhead

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:38:14 +0000

The Booking Form for pitches at Salvo Fair 2012 can be downloaded on the link below. The twelfth Salvo fair will be held at Stubbings Estate in Berkshire and is open to the public on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th June 2012. The Trade day is on Friday 22nd June 2012 to which dealers, decorators, cons....

The theft of public sculpture has got to stop

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:39:20 +0000

In December a gang of scumbag opportunists broke through the gates of Dulwich Park, just five minutes from where I live in South London, and stole an important work of outdoor sculpture - - Two Forms (Divided Circle) of 1970 - - by the great British modernist artist Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975). A p....

To Fladder

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:37:20 +0000

The verb 'to fladder' is probably new to Salvo followers. It does not appear in the Oxford English Dictionary or even in Wikipedia, which is not surprising really because it's a word that isn't really used as a verb. In fact 'fladder' isn't really a word at all. So what's all this about? Way ba....

Buyers needed for complete salvage yard clear out

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:21:17 +0000

Worthington Demolition in Hinckley is closing down its two acre salvage yard. For fifty years the family run business has saved interesting pieces of architectural salvage and reclaimed materials from demolition sites. The land the salvage yard is situated on has to be cleared by March. The complete....

David Urquhart holds fair to support Great Ormond Street Hospital

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:13:19 +0000

David Urquhart said he owed the lives of two of his grandchildren to Great Ormond Street Hospital so he organised a fund-raising fair in November to say thank you. David, owner of Posterity Architectural Salvage & Reclamation, said that one grandchild had a rare heart condition as a baby and wit....

BBC scrapheap orchestra does the 1812 overture. Happy New Year!

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:36:35 +0000

'The miraculous amplification that comes from the wooden enclosures of stringed instruments is the result of materials not usually found in a reclamation yard,' wrote Pascal Wyse in the Guardian, 'and violin-maker Rob Cain's admirable desire to stick to the scrap brief was tested to destruction - a ....