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REMADE CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION SURVEY NEEDS YOU
Dr Francis Ongondo and Professor Ian Williams from University of Southampton, in conjunction with Andrew Kent from Remade South East, are doing research into the C&D sector.
Andrew Kent writes, 'Your views are an important part of this appraisal, helping to make any present and future policies more efficient, cost-effective and environmentally beneficial. We need your help to make this appraisal as meaningful as possible.'
They want people from construction and demolition companies to complete a short online survey by 15th February 2012. Information provided will be kept confidential; names, addresses and other organisational details will not be published or divulged to any third party.
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Date Created : 09 Feb 2012 12:42:42
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 COX'S YARD SQUEEZES QUART INTO A PINT POT IN THESE HARD TIMES
Following its successful clearance auction sale, well known Gloucestershire reclamation business Cox's Yard has now completed its relocation to new premises just 50 yards away from the old.
The new unit is number 12 Fosseway Business Park, previously 10 Fosseway Business Park, Moreton-in-Marsh, the only other change is to the fax number which is now 01608 652842.
Founder and MD, Peter Watson, commenting on the move, said, "In these hard times we've had to cut back on overheads and have reduced from 10,000 sq. ft, to 5,000 sq. ft. Literally getting a quart into a pint pot. Not as hard as it seems though, because as we all know in this trade, if you've got space you fill it! Trouble is you tend to fill it with stuff that doesn't sell quickly. So this has been a good opportunity to streamline what we do.
"Doors have always been a speciality of ours and will continue to be a major line together with associated hardware and fittings. Floorboards of all types and selected heavy side items. I've taken the opportunity to invest in expanding our woodworking department and updating our computer systems. The new showroom is open and I look forward to seeing existing and new customers."
[Press Release - 4th February 2012
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Salvo Code dealer, Cox's Yard, has again booked a pitch at this years Salvo Fair at Stubbings Estate in Berkshire.
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Date Created : 09 Feb 2012 11:33:18
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 BYGONES RECLAMATION BECOMES UNIQUELY BRITISH LTD
Uniquely British Ltd is a new company taking over the mantle of reclamation yard leader Bygones Reclamation Ltd. Based at the same unique site in Canterbury, Kent but with a new stock selection.
Uniquely British Ltd is now operating from the site previously used by the famous Bygones Reclamation Yard, Canterbury, Kent, UK. With a new website, uniquelybritish dot com, customers can now order all of their favourite goods directly online.
The new company is taking over from where Bygones left off, but with an added focus on Telephone Boxes, Post Boxes and Lamp Posts. The crown jewel of the British web site is the spectacular British Police Call Box, as used by Dr Who.
Uniquely British have just taken delivery of another 25 Telephone Boxest, they are expecting the demand to be very high.
Each Telephone Box is unique and as such it gets treated very uniquely before it is sent out:
1) All the glass along with any silicon / putty is fully removed.
2) The wooden / cast iron door is removed for any repairs and re-glazing.
3) The telephone signs are removed and replaced with new high quality Perspex signs.
4) All internal fittings are removed, and the back board is re-sprayed and then refitted.
5) Each telephone box is fully sand blasted, primed and sprayed in a GPO red finish.
6) The roof interior is sprayed white.
7) The external crowns are hand painted in gold highlights.
8) Each box is then fitted with new refurbished cast iron frames to hold the new glass panes.
Fans of the original Bygones web site, bygones dot net, need not worry about this change. The site will still be updated with the full Uniquely British stock list, but only available to order over the phone on 01227 767 453.
Uniquely British Ltd has new showroom opening times of Monday to Friday 9:00am to 5:00pm. The showroom can be found just of Nackington Road, Canterbury, Kent, CT4 7BA.
If you cannot make it to the showroom then Uniquely British offer delivery worldwide.
[Press Release - 30 Jan 2012
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Category : Shop, Pub, Church, Telephone Boxes & Bygones
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Date Created : 09 Feb 2012 11:13:20
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 INTERESTED BUYER SOUGHT FOR PRIGMORE DEMOLITION & SALVAGE
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, who took over from his parents and who started as a boy with timber reclaim.
The company now consists of capable demolition experts with an excellent safety record and a sound local reputation. Prigmore Demolition ensures that the utmost care and attention is paid at all times with a hands-on approach and a wealth of experience. The company is an approved contractor with Construction Line.
Most of the material from the demolition work is reclaimed. When salvaging timber, they de-nail and store under cover. Even the less sellable timber is used for making their own pallets and crates. Prigmore's architectural salvage yard posts its finds on on SalvoWEB and its own salvage microsite where it usually has over 300 items for sale.
In the early days the company undertook horticulture but when that fell on hard times it started using its greenhouses as storage, and timber is still stored this way to keep it dry and airing. There is a good stock of reclaimed bricks, building stone, doors, roof tiles and slates. There are also more storage buildings, made from reclaimed materials, which have potential for future development. The yard is also an operating centre for six rigid vehicles and one 8 wheeler with container roll-on-roll-off.
Prigmore Demolition offers a 24/7 emergency call out which resulted a few year's ago in a New Year's Eve call out to make a building safe on a busy street in Bedford. The company is also skilled in hand demolition for works in close proximity to existing occupied buildings.
For further details please contact Mr. Jon Prigmore.
Telephone 07804 030360
Email jon at prigmore139 dot fsnet dot co dot uk
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Date Created : 08 Feb 2012 16:03:19
Date Modified : 08 Feb 2012 16:11:21;
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 MYSTERY-THINGY-WOTSIT
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 no opening at the base. I got mine in a job lot, bought from a lady who told me she was a garden historian. She told me it was a strawberry-forcer. Can't see it myself.
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Date Created : 08 Feb 2012 12:49:56
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TV COMPANY LOOKING FOR THE MOST INTERESTING UK SALVAGE YARDS
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 undertake. Do you think the nation would be interested in what goes on in your yard? Do you have some confident, outgoing characters with a good sense of humour who work there?
If so then please get in touch with Alex Jamieson.
Email alex dot jamieson@iwcmedia dot co dot uk
Tel 0141 353 8411
[Glasgow and London based IWC, formerly Zodiak, makes Extreme Fishing and others
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Location : UK > Strathclyde
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Date Created : 07 Feb 2012 17:21:19
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 WELLERS TO SELL C J PARK PHARMACY
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, machinery, paraphernalia, artefacts and literature currently known as the C J Park Pharmacy.
Lots include a pharmaceutical library, sets of unique prescription books, collections of Materia Medica (used in the past for making medicines) and an extensive collection of artefacts, old-fashioned proprietary goods, Victorian display cabinets, shop fittings and an impressive drugs run.
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Date Created : 07 Feb 2012 13:45:19
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 WILL FISHER SALE AT CHRISTIE'S TOTALS £4M MAINLY ON FIREPLACES
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 for comment last night. Will Fisher is relocating to a smaller premises in Pimlico.
Of the 48 chimneypieces on offer the top lot was a verde antico and statuary marble George II c1755, the design attributed to Isaac Ware and possibly carved by James Richards, which sold for £181,250 (est £80,000 - £120,000). Several others sold for £30,000 to £60,000.
A collection of over 20 marble fireplace tablets were on offer, of which the top lot of frolicking Bacchic putti was probably not even Georgian yet made a staggering fifty times estimate £49,250. Top firegrate was a late Victorian Thomas Elsley Georgian-style 30ins wide brass and iron firegrate which made £31,250 (est £1,200 - £1,800).
A pair of Jamb's own reproduction copper and bronze mask lanterns made £31,250 a pair (est £7,000 - £10,000). A 1960s enamel sign for New of the World, 18ins by 66ins, made £2,000 (est £800). A six feet long lead lined pine double sink on frame made £4,750 (est £800).
A stuffed Victorian chihuahua dog 11ins long in a case made £20,000 (est £500) and a bulldog nearly the same. A Regency mahogany sofa with shabby attached fabric made £30,000 (est £3,000 - £5,000). An early 20th century carved stone nude 26ins high figure circle of Mary Watson sold for £43,250 (est £5,000 - £8,000) and a marble bust of an unknown gentleman by Peter Turnerelli in 1816 made £27,500 (est £8,000 - £12,000).
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Category : CHIMNEYPIECES, FIREPLACES & GRATES
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Date Created : 02 Feb 2012 23:43:16
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 BILL BRYSON'S TESTIMONIAL ABOUT MONGERS ARCHITECTURAL SALVAGE
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: 'If you like to prowl around old stuff (and there is something wrong if you don't), there isn't any more delightful and rewarding place to do it than Monger's.'
Bill Bryson's latest book, just out in paperback, 'At Home: a History of Private Life', is a miscellany of home, ramblingly related to the Victorian rectory in Norfolk where he lives, which is sourced from 508 books carefully listed on his website. Notwithstanding a thousand answers, At Home does not help with that most vexing architectural salvage question: why is the Belfast sink so named (everywhere except Belfast that is, where it is known as a jawbox)?
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Date Created : 02 Feb 2012 17:21:35
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 WEBB LAMP CO LTD VICTORIAN SEWER GAS LAMPOST LISTED BY EH
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 mantles burning mains gas which created a strong updraft that flues through the lantern top. The hollow lampost was connected via a pipe below ground to a high point in the mains sewer and thus vented methane gas which was then burned off by the lampost. The lamps were rarely extinguished. Similar lamps in Sheffield were in use until the end of the 20th century.
Methane, one the worst greenhouse gases, has a 72 times stronger effect than carbon dioxide over a 20 year time frame, so burning it would still make sense today.
There are now 25 Webb Lamp Co Ltd patent sewer gas destructor lamps which have been listed by English Heritage in Sheffield and Northumberland, although many others still exist.
The Webb Lamp Co Ltd claims to have been established in 1806, was incorporated in 1901 and dissolved after 2006. William Sugg & Co, still trading as Sugg Lighting, was established in 1837.
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Category : LIGHTING
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Date Created : 02 Feb 2012 12:47:31
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 FRANK BUCKLEY'S '€1.4BN' SHREDDED EUROS HOUSE ~ NEARER €60M?
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 comment he started making mixed media artworks using shredded decommissioned euros he got from the Irish mint. This developed into the creation of a gallery at the Glass House in Dublin for which he used some salvaged ply saved from a graffiti exhibition and free wood framing from builders merchants Chadwicks.
He needed some cladding and approached the mint again who offered to help with a trailer load of six inch brickettes each made from €50,000 which Franks says totalled €1.4 billion. On a BBC interview he says it was enough to clad 27 square metres.
The exhibition, called 'Expressions of Recession', is at the Glass House, Coke Lane, Smithfield, Dublin.
Could it possibly be that 27 square metres of six inch brickettes is more like 1,200 brickettes (a reasonable trailer load by the way) at €50,000 each which would make more like €60m - not €1.4bn - and that is all part of the fun. If so he's fooled the BBC and the Irish Times, and many more who could have known better, which you could argue is exactly what the bankers did to Europe's governments and it is the gullible electorate who is now paying the cost.
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Date Created : 01 Feb 2012 18:39:04
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 SWMPS COULD BE SCRAPPED AS PART OF THE UK RED TAPE CHALLENGE
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 licence to sell chocolate liqueurs. Manufacturing, road transportation, utilities and energy, and housing and construction were also being looked at.
A lot of environmental legislation is fairly recent. When I first worked in the waste industry there was very little legislation governing environmental protection. The Environmental Protection Act of 1990 was implemented through a myriad of regulations, such as Duty of Care and Registration of Carriers. Legislation now goes through a due diligence process to look at its impact on business. In the last 10 years the EU has driven legislation, requiring its directives to be incorporated into national legislation. Waste management licensing, pollution, air and water discharge permits have now all been consolidated under the overarching legislation of Environmental Permitting, as required for the revised Waste Framework Directive. Also environmental legislation has transformed the way in which businesses operate and manage their processes. In my early days of inspecting waste facilities and hazardous waste generating businesses, standards of environmental protection and awareness were shocking compared to today. Just as you don't see people smoking at their desks nowadays, you also do not tend to see barrels of hazardous waste dumped into mixed waste skips destined for landfill now either. Our tolerance for such behaviour has changed mainly due to legislation dictating what is considered to be acceptable.
New legislation drives innovation as those who are able to align their products and processes to higher levels of performance more quickly are also able to compete more effectively. The Code for Sustainable Homes sets out requirements for zero carbon homes by 2016. Manufacturers and housebuilders have developed new building systems and products that can meet these future requirements now, which is why we have code level 6 homes being built today.
Construction projects in England have, since 2008, had to complete a Site Waste Management Plan. The benefits from having a SWMP exceed the cost of implementation at the point of the works costing £300,000, which is why the threshold is set at this level. Most builders feel that SWMPs offer some financial benefits, but they believe that the main benefits are non-financial: better site management, fewer environmental impacts, improved health and safety, and improving the company and industry image. The SWMP regulations will be reviewed as part of the Red Tape Challenge and there is a risk that they will be scrapped despite the consensus that benefits outweigh costs because the government wants to be seen to be cutting red tape.
Scrapping SWMPs does not make sense but there are ways in which they could be improved, such as better enforcement by the Environment Agency or Local Authority. That this enforcement responsibility has not been clearly defined must be the root cause of ad-hoc and infrequent inspections. Also, increasing responsibility for designers and clients in terms of SWMPs would drive forward waste prevention and make the process have a far greater impact than leaving everything to the main contractor to sort out. Finally, an integration of aspects of Environmental Permitting with SWMPs would make it easier to reuse and recycle inert materials. Current limitations on reusing materials such as aggregates and clean soils are definitely over the top and probably unenforceable.
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Date Created : 27 Jan 2012 20:29:04
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 BIOREGIONAL AND SOCIAL ENTERPRISE AT THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM
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 week.
Sue blogged that a journalist had asked why social entrepreneurs were at Davos. She explained about eco-village projects and sustainable products and services and cost effectiveness - approaches which reduce risk and add value - which she wanted to share and to meet new partners. He was sceptical and said, "It's great what you're doing and what Klaus Schwab is saying about the Great Transformation and getting businesses here talking. But from what I heard them say today, don't you think most of them just don't get it". She admitted he had a point and that some participants misunderstood but having the dialogue was worthwhile.
Transformational leaders see social entrepreneurs as allies and BioRegional has a partnership with Kingfisher PLC and their UK company B&Q. Kingfisher CEO Ian Cheshire was at Davos this week.
Before the event Sue had said: "Since winning the Schwab Award last year we've participated in the European and Chinese Forums. We've realised that the World Economic Forum is a really interesting organisation, and one which has challenged our pre-conceptions. Its strap-line is 'committed to improving the state of the world'. That's a mission which we are proud to be a part of. Pooran and I are really looking forward to our first Davos!"
With more than 280 official events to choose from, Sue and Pooran aimed to use the opportunity to develop relationships with some of the 2,500 influential attendees and exchange ideas for sustainable development and the green growth economy. Sue and Pooran planned to participate in the Social Entrepreneurs' Activities organised by the Schwab Foundation and share what BioRegional have learnt in building and creating truly sustainable communities and businesses.
Sue was invited to contribute to exploring how informed and connected consumers are reshaping product and service innovation, by leading discussions at an event entitled 'When Consumers Become Innovators' on Wednesday, along with other Discussion Leaders from the research and business communities.
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BioRegional Reclaimed is a Salvo Code supporter and the reclaimed building material arm of the BioRegional Development Group
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Date Created : 27 Jan 2012 09:47:02
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 ON THIEVES AND THIEVING - PART ONE
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, but the place did not in any way resemble the grossly-violated, spoiled void with yawning gaps where possessions once were, that this thief and his accomplices achieved. An invisible yet tangible stain of harm and violence combined to provide a noxious atmosphere that pervaded the air in all the rooms and almost seeped into the very fabric of the building itself. It upset me considerably. They had even pinched my old carved Victorian bookcase that my grandmother, Elsie had given to me when I was eleven when she recognised my love of books that remains to this day. I don't steal. I think it is wrong but I half understand how desperation can drive people to this act. In the case of my burglaries I know who it was that burgled me and that, it seems, is often the case. The person who burgled me did it out of malice and greed. Of this, I can assure you. Desperation did not come into it!
There were various thefts at the yard in my youth. One of the boldest involved doping our guard dog, Digger, who was usually a formidable deterrent. This of course was in the days before one had to have a 'handler' with a dog which of course is a modern invention. In those earlier days one had a sign on the gates (or not as the case may be) that stated 'Beware of the Dog' and that was it. Dogs bit, back then, and Digger was a great night-time burglar biter. He unfortunately had the postman in broad daylight once or twice too!
The night they doped Digger, my family as usual, were in the house (the same house I live in now) and fast asleep. That is my mother and father, sisters Susan and Shane and myself. I was just thirteen at the time. Outside in the yard, and only a matter of yards away from the house, was the Bedford three and a half ton lorry loaded with lead, copper, braziery copper (copper pipe with brass fittings on it), brass and gunmetal. The lorry was scheduled to leave the yard in the morning at 7.30 am with Raymond Halls, the driver, taking it up to the London dealer to whom my dad sold much of his metal and who had bought Theo's yard (my grandfather's) in Willesden back in the early 60s.
The thieves turned out to be old customers of my dad - Bernie Hackling and the two Green brothers: Alfie and Ron. After doping the dog, they cut the chain to the gate and somehow pushed the lorry silently out of the yard into the area my dad called the 'pull-in' - which is a car parking area - where they started it and drove off. No one heard anything. I don't know if the keys were in the lorry - probably not as my dad was careful about such things. I suppose they hot wired it or used another key. I remember vans and lorries then that you could turn on with a screwdriver or nail file or similar. It wasn't hard then like now. I lost the keys to my Mercedes van including the spare ones not long ago and besides being expensive to replace the whole vehicle had to be towed to the Mercedes garage and re-programmed to accept the new key.
The following morning the burglary was discovered and my dad got straight on to the police and told them what had happened. Digger looked a bit hang-dog but was otherwise all right. Within three hours Bernie, Ron and Alfie were arrested at what was then Clement Bros Scrap Metal Merchants in Portsmouth trying to sell the metal from the same lorry they had nicked the night before and which was sign-written Yapton Metal Company! They received eighteen months apiece for that little caper but remained customers of my dad and on reasonable terms with him until they became too old to muck about with scrap anymore.
When Ronald Stortt sold us twenty-two hundredweight of lead, which turned out to be stolen and which was impounded by the police before my dad had a chance to sell it, he did not, as my mother suggested, ban Ronald. On the contrary his philosophy was to keep dealing with him and by doing so earn back the money he lost, through the loss, of the lead. The lead had been booked in and was therefore legitimately bought. Had it not been recorded as a purchase then - as my dad said - we could be 'done for receiving'
My father throughout cautioned me on the dangers of buying stolen metal and insisted all his employees including myself and later my sister Susan comply with the law and the Scrap Metal Dealers Act (1964). This required us to list the metals bought in and the price we paid for it. In addition we had to write down the name and address of the person selling the metal to us, the time they came in and their vehicle registration number. My father was a realist and wished to work within the law, not for moral reasons, but for the fact that he did not want to 'go to Clink' or jeopardise his business or reputation which he prided. If it did transpire that we bought some 'hot' metal then the thing to do was to sell it on as quickly as possible mainly to avoid a financial loss, as in the Ronald Stortt case, not for any idea to outwit or hoodwink the law.
I have the dubious distinction of buying - in my youth - twelve hundredweight of lead that was stolen off Horsham Police station. I cannot remember how we found out that it was the same lead but we did. Roofing lead, like plumbing copper is not easy to identify. Anyway, this lead was sold on by my dad before any enquiries were made. When the police eventually arrived at our yard asking if we had bought a large quantity of lead recently we invited them as always to look through the purchase book. As is the case they took the name of the man who had brought the lead in to us and went off to talk to him. We never heard any more about it. The lead was sold and moved on before we even knew it was 'hot'.
Another time I bought some lead which turned out to have been stolen which again was moved on before any investigation took place. The man who had brought the lead in to us was not a thief as such but was prosecuted for 'theft by finding'. He claimed truthfully that he had found the lead dumped with other debris in a side road near his house and, recognising that the metal had some value, brought it into us to sell it. Apparently this was against the law, though I'm not entirely sure what law it contravened and as such he was 'done'. He felt aggrieved about this conviction and I remember feeling sympathy for him.
I had a very bizarre case of theft a few years ago which even now several burglaries later stands apart as an exceptional and extraordinary event. It involved the theft of my Alsatian guard dog, Rufus. (I grew up, by the way, with the post-World War I name 'alsatian' for the breed that persisted for over 50 years until 1977 when British enthusiasts campaigned to have the literal translation of the German name Deutscher Schaferhund restored as German Shepherd. I still tend to think of the breed as 'alsatian'.)
Rufus the alsatian was named - inexplicably even for me - after Rufus T Firefly the memorable character played by Groucho Marx in the 1933 film 'Duck Soup' and who, as the irrepressible Firefly and under the insistence of the wealthy Mrs Teasdale (played by the majestic and masterly Margeret Dumont), becomes the leader of the small, bankrupt nation of Freedonia. At one stage, early on in my ownership of the pup, who incidentally possessed a fine pedigree, I thought I had acquired a miniature alsatian as Rufus never visibly grew despite being well fed and conscientiously looked after. He remained minute for months! I used to carry him about in the pocket of my Barbour jacket that I loved at the time but loathe now.
Rufus, from the beginning, had eyes for no-one except me. I chose him on the day by taking out the entire litter of seven pups and placing them on the breeder's lawn, attracting their attention and then seeing which one came to me first. The breeder was a tolerant lady called Sue and indulged me in this matter. Rufus accomplished this three times thus choosing me and was chosen accordingly by myself in turn. I had read somewhere that the best choice of puppy was achieved by setting fire to the kennel and seeing which one the bitch saved first. I felt this might be excessive and however tolerant Sue was she wouldn't possibly put up with such an extreme method of puppy choice!
The new pup's whole existence revolved around being with me, loving me and accompanying me regardless of the inherent dangers or discomforts he may have to sustain in so doing. This is a trait of the breed being well known as 'one man dogs'. When loading the van for a delivery, for example, Rufus would make it quite clear that he was not going to be left at the yard without me. He jumped into the back of the van irrespective of what was in there and faced me with an anxious devotional look on his face that clearly indicated he was accompanying me no matter what. I have pictures of Rufus in the back of the van so wedged in by furniture and salvaged oddments that he has had to all but fold himself into the tiniest of spaces to be in the van at all, peering out from amongst the load with an expression of anguished anxiety that he might be removed. As the load invariably settled as we moved the space might well diminish further. The sound of a slight whine or two and the pawing of feet were all I would hear. Rufus was prepared to suffer for his love and devotion. He would not be removed unless great insistence was used. In the mornings when greeting me he would twirl like a dervish on his back legs vacuously panting and looking at me with adoration and idiocy in his eyes. He would frequently bang his silly head against something in this dervish-like enthusiasm such was his ecstasy!
My dogs, I stress here, are kindly but firmly trained to be utterly obedient. If I go out and they are not invited to join me then they stay put in the yard. That's the way it is and it's written in stone. They have two long walks daily and come out with me on extensive walks every weekend when I go botanising. I claim that my dogs know West Sussex more intimately than the bulk of the county's residents! Rufus knew this rule as did Lucy the chocolate Labrador I had at the time and Rex the border terrier who I still have today.
End of part one
The tale of the theft of Rufus will be the subject of my next article.
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 EH ADVICE TO SELL OLD STATUARY AND REPLACE WITH REPLICA SLAMMED
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 central government but rests with Sefton Council. English Heritage recommended that the Sisters' application be granted in order to reduce the risk of theft and vandalism, and EH agreed that as a result of its removal a private sale might occur.
English Heritage said: "The nuns are concerned about the condition of, and threats to, the antique statuary and therefore want it removed. Our advice is to remove it for conservation and replaced it with high quality replicas. It would be harmful to the collection as a whole if items were sold and dispersed, so we advise that the antiquities should not be removed for a year so that there is an opportunity for funds to be raised to allow public acquisition. This period could also be used to find out if there are any practical ways of retaining the sculpture at Ince Blundell safely and securely." Henry Owen-John, planning director for English Heritage in the North West conceded that if the money raised did not equal the market value of the antique marbles, worth tens of millions of pounds according to the Telegraph, they could be sold to private collectors.
The Grade II listed hall was home to 600 antique and Roman marble busts and statues collected by Henry Blundell, a wealthy Georgian collector, from Richard Wilson, Canova, Gavin Hamilton, Anton Raphael Meng and, via Jenkins in Naples a seated philosopher and eighty pieces from the Villa Mattei, and later via Father John Thorpe in Rome a group from the Villa Borrioni probably in 1777, copies by Giuseppi Angelini, Giovanni Volpato and Carlo Albacini, a reduced version of Trajan's Column by Bartolomeo Cavaceppi, and auction lots in 1800 from Lord Cawdor and 1801 from Lord Bessborough. All but 100 sculptures from his collection were removed from Ince Blundell Hall in 1959 are now in the National Museum of Liverpool.
Charles Sebag-Montefiore of the Society of Dilettanti wrote to the Daily Telegraph concerned that the collection would be sold to the highest bidder following an application to the local council for their listed building status to be removed. He said the collection was one of only three surviving from the 18th century and that its sale would create a worrying precedent for listed antique marble statuary. He was not aware of any attempts to establish the cost of conservation in situ or to explore other ways of keeping them in their original setting.
He said: "What do English Heritage think they are doing? They are meant to be protecting heritage not destroying it. What is the point of the listing system if it can be brushed aside so easily?"
According to the Daily Telegraph Mr Owen-John urged interested parties such as the Society of Dilettanti to approach the Sisters directly if they believed they could fund the restoration of the sculptures whilst also improving security at the hall or alternatively raise enough money to ensure they go into public ownership.
A spokesperson for the nuns said: "The reports are full of inaccuracies and untruths and there is no immediate intention to sell the marbles."
A comment left on the Art Newspaper by G Davies of Edinburgh reads:
My catalogue of about 10 per cent of the items in the Ince Blundell collection (the ash chests and some other Roman funerary reliefs), published in 2007, included 8 ash chests and lids which are still embedded in the interior walls of the Garden Temple. In researching this material I spent some time at the Hall, and I can quite understand the nuns' quandary. Keeping these sculptures in their present location is not just a constant worry for them - it is not necessarily the best thing for the sculptures, especially those in the fabric of the exterior of the buildings. My concern is not so much that they should stay where they are (after all, the majority are now in store in Liverpool), but that the collection should stay together. The collection is virtually intact (I know of only a few pieces which have been lost): as such it is a valuable example of such late 18th century collections. If they are sold, I hope that they will not lose their Ince identity, and will not be too widely dispersed.
Also in the Art Newspaper Tim Knox, director of the Soane Museum, asked: "What is to stop every church or country house from saying that their monuments are in danger of being vandalised and therefore, in the interests of preservation, should be removed and sold? None of us wants to be horrid to the nuns, but their objectives are not in line with running a Grade II-listed building."
John Harris, architectural historian, said: "We are concerned because in effect, English Heritage is providing a precedent for anyone with historical fixtures in their house to apply to have them removed and sold. This is one of the most disgraceful moves by English Heritage in memory and it's been done entirely in ignorance." He also said that the Blundell heirs have always believed that Weld's donation included the entire collection, which means the sculptures could belong to the National Museum of Liverpool.
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 TAYLOR WIMPEY DEMOLISHES 24 BRAND NEW HOMES
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 mounds of rubble. Were the buildings carefully dismantled and the reclaimed materials sold or reused on another Taylor Wimpey project, as required under the 2011 Waste Regulations?
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FRY'S CABINET MAKES £2,000 AT GAZE'S BYGONES SALE
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).
Five lots of 1930s wooden bread trays fetched £240 for between 20 and 25 trays. A Victorian mahogany chemist's bottle cabinet, gilded lettering 'Walden's Herbalist & Apothecary since 1887', 9ins square by 10ins high, sold for £290.
A set of four original Cricklite candle lights by Samuel Clarke on square stepped silver plated bases made £320. A pair of badger tongs sold for £280, and another for £200.
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 'SALVAGE HUNTERS' TV SERIES AIRS IN ASIA
Drew Pritchard's TV series 'Salvage Hunters' is being broadcast on the Discovery Channel across Asia on Thursdays at 9pm, 8pm BKK JKA (Bangkok and Jakarta).
Discovery Asia states:
Drew Pritchard is a modern-day treasure hunter searching the back roads of the UK to discover hidden riches. With demanding customers, high turnover and one of the biggest decorative salvage yards in the UK, Drew is constantly on the road, crisscrossing the country in search of derelict gems and forgotten remnants. Drew loves the thrill of the hunt and while he gets his hands dirty in the country's architectural backwaters, his crack team of restorers is back at the shop giving old and rare finds a new lease on life.
Follow Drew and his crack team of specialists on a fascinating journey through the entire picking process - from the initial expedition, to renewal, and finally to resale. Showcasing his hard-earned knowledge and appreciation of salvage and restoration, each episode accompanies Drew on one big buying venture, such as setting off with an empty van and returning with a 20th century stained glass Gothic doorway from an Irish monastery - as well as the small, unpredictable adventures along the way.
Simply discovering a treasure is only half the battle, as Drew must artfully convince owners to sell, and at his price. After a successful purchase, Drew and his team of experts bring the items back to Fabulously British Salvage, his tremendous 20,000 square foot showroom located in North Wales, to restore them to their original brilliance, before reselling them for profit. This is not an easy business, as any trip can feature the next great find or a bust that costs Drew and his team thousands. However, Drew's keen eye and adroit negotiating skills are second to none - his passion and drive for success make him one of the best in the business.
And the Phillippines Enquirer writes:
A modern-day treasure hunter and star of the latest Discovery Channel program "Salvage Hunters," has expressed interest in coming to the Philippines to look for antiques that can be restored. Drew Pritchard, 41, is a restoration expert in the United Kingdom (UK). He has restored hundreds of antique items from cars and motorbikes to stained glass windows and small pedal bicycles. He would sell the restored items at a much higher price than when he bought them as junk. "The Philippines is really interesting because I don't think that that sort of market has been explored," Pritchard said in a telephone interview with international media. "Countries like that have got a rich background of things and the stuff from the 1950s, 60s and 70s there [also] interests me. There [are] a lot of old cars [in the Philippines] from that era that I'd like to buy [and restore]," Pritchard said. His search for antique items to restore brought him to Poland, France, Italy and Belgium, among others.
He said that "the rarest and most valuable thing" he has restored was a set of 14 stained-glass windows by William Morris, a greatly influential artist and poet in England during the 19th century. The set was sold for around 60,000 pounds to one of the wives of the Beatles, he said.
He has also managed to restore an entire hotel, which was shipped to Japan. He bought the hotel in England for 25,000 pounds, spent 50,000 to take it down and restore each piece including the interior, and then shipped the entire building to Japan where it became a golf club. He sold it for just over 200,000 pounds, he said.
"That doesn't happen everyday. It's not normal and it's only happened once. And I never think it would happen again," he said about the hotel.
Pritchard's interest in restoration began when he was 11 years old. He would find old pedal bicycles and restore them in the back yard of their house. He also collected and restored oars and pieces of boats he found on the beach near their house. "It was total junk but to me it was all treasure," he said.
Later on, when he was 15 years old, he would buy old vintage cars and keep them in their garden to restore. He recalled that the local officials came to their house and closed him down for keeping junk. The incident made his mother angry and ordered him to get rid of everything.
Pritchard began working for a stained-glass restorer at the age of 16. He trained in restoration and worked on old castles and cathedrals in England.
When he was 23, the restoration business of his employer went bankrupt and he was given all the leftover items that were unrestored because the business had no more money to pay him.
He took all of those items, restored them, and sold them. He said he "made more money each day than I had been making a month [in the previous business]."
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 DESERTED MANSIONS OF THE VANISHED RICH
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 they had made their fortune out of hairbrushes which may have been speculation based on the fact that an outbuilding was filled with hundreds of boxes filled with same.
Empty ever since, the house was a mausoleum of damp and decaying DFS style furniture on a grand scale. I'm not sure if the property had reverted to the State or whether some distant relative had turned up to claim it, either way it was all to be demolished. The old Daimler with its 1970s state of the Art TV system had a 3 digit registration that would have been worth £20,000 +: One of the contractors managed to snaffle that.
My favourite part was the folly in the garden which did not look as though it had been visited for decades, it was impossible to enter because of the dense brambles - inside.
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 WHAT TO RECLAIM AND REUSE FROM THE DEMOLITION OF TOWER BLOCKS
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 Salvo's reply:
Over the years, with many requests to advise and many failures to reuse, Salvo has developed a targeted simple approach to modern buildings rather than one which tries to reclaim everything possible. If one or two reclaimable items are pinpointed for reuse it is simpler to achieve than a blanket approach which is simpler to reject. The UK Waste Regulations 2011 have now created a hierarchy for disposal which requires reuse as the first option, but this is only mandatory where a market exists for the items in question - and quite often modern salvage does not have a recognised market unlike much older salvage.
Salvo has acted as a consultant to undertake what it calls 'reclamation audits' on buildings to be demolished since 1993. The reclamation audit is a list of material arising and the options for disposal ranging from reuse on the same site, reuse on another project elsewhere, sale to a stockholding salvage dealer, recycling - which is usually downcycling into a lower grade product (such as crushing reusable bricks for hardcore), energy from waste and landfill.
The best options involve reuse because this saves embodied resources and embodied energy. The worst options are recycling, energy from waste and landfill. As a general rule, old buildings contain material which is easier to salvage, easier to reuse and easier to sell, while the opposite is true of modern buildings. But there are always exceptions, and even the least promising modern building will usually contain some salvageable components.
When demolishing modern buildings the suggestion to the client is always to look for reuse opportunities within the new building to be erected on the site where the demolition is to take place.
The first Salvo reclamation audit in 1993, at which Steve Tomlin helped, where 'same site salvage and reuse' was suggested, was for the BRE near Watford which at the time was planning to replace several buildings dating from the early 1900s through to the 1960s with a large eco-friendly office building which came to be known as 'Building 16'. The reclamation audit suggested reclaiming bricks and fire doors. The bricks, which had been bedded in lime mortar were easily reclaimed and were reused in the new building. The fire doors, which were also easily reclaimed, were sound and would have been reusable, were rejected for aesthetic and political reasons because the client did not want to commission a brand new building with old doors inside it.
In Wolverhampton in 1995 Salvo undertook another reclamation audit of the demolition of some tower blocks, and their replacement by low rise council housing. A few years prior to the audit the tower block's bathrooms had all been refurbished and new cast iron baths installed. We recommended that the baths were reused in the new build. This was accepted by the designers and client, but rejected by the council for political reasons. It was felt that incoming tenants to the new low rise houses would object to the baths and this might become a political issue at the forthcoming election. In the event nothing was reclaimed from that demolition.
In Liverpool in 1998, Salvo undertook another reclamation audit for a housing association which was replacing modern concrete framed tower blocks with low rise housing. The architects were keen to reuse reclaimed material and the scheme had a grant based on its high environmental credentials. The tower blocks had been recently rewired with new electrical fittings. Salvo suggested that the double sockets could be salvaged and reused. It contacted MK Electrical, the manufacturers to discuss reuse, and a local social enterprise white goods refurber to see if they would create a test-rig to test the sockets. Both MK and the social enterprise agreed, but the in-house architects for the housing association developers could not get the professional indemnity insurers to agree to the reuse.
On the same site, Salvo suggested chopping the concrete frame into beams and using the beams in the foundations which, due to the clay conditions on a flood plain, required deep fill trenches. The structural engineers agreed a method of reuse, but again the insurers refused.
Because Pilkington glass was manufactured nearby, Salvo suggested recycling the window glass into new window glass. This was rejected because of pollutants on the surface of the glass which could not be removed and would spoil the new glass.
The advice to the reader above is to target or pinpoint one or two items from the demolition which can be fairly easily reclaimed and reused in the new project, then set up the method by which that will happen. Track that methodology through the design and build process, making sure that client, builder, developer, architect, demolition contractor, external agencies, insurers, trade agencies, local authorities, councillors and council officers are informed at an early stage and have agreed to your proposal.
This may sound like hard work, but it is probably the only way to have a reasonably high chance of achieving a result. And how often has Salvo been successful with its reclamation audits for modern high rise buildings? Up to now, never! But Salvo stopped doing reclamation audits several years ago and the world is moving towards greater reuse, so don't give up - Reuse before Recycling!
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 GLASTONBURY REC SEEKS ENLIGHTENMENT ON MYSTERY OBJECT
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 is a hollow object, with no lid, and it has kept James Dash's customers guessing for some time now. "It has been suggested that it could be a Victorian rhubarb forcer, but I think it's a bit too decorative for that, or a cover for a pipe - perhaps over a furnace - but the inside is very clean, and unless someone's scrubbed it, it's never had a naked flame inside it," he said. Other suggestions have included lanterns and an ornamental beehive or bird box, as well as decoration for a water fountain. As well as a series of holes around the base, 'lid' and rim of the item, there is also a small semi-circle carved out of the clay at the base of the item. "We think the serial number might relate to a catalogue of some description," Mr Dash said. "Perhaps someone out there might have a copy of a Victorian Catalogue and they can tell us what it means."'
To solve the mystery Salvo has requested a copy of the original 1873 registered design application from the Public Record Office at Kew and will let readers know when we hear back from them. Meanwhile, anyone wishing to make suggestions please go ahead using the comments system below.
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 THOMAS ISMAY'S DAWPOOL MANOR FIREPLACE FOR SALE ON EBAY
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 founder of the White Star line, Thomas Ismay, in Thurstaston on the Wirral, from where he could look out to sea and view his ocean liners coming and going from their home port of Liverpool.
When Dawpool Manor was demolished the large inglenook-style fireplace was relocated and ended up in a cabaret restaurant called Kingsland in Birkenhead where it appears still to be in-situ.
The monumental marble fireplace may have been designed by Norman Shaw or possibly by Aldam Heaton, both of whom were used by Ismay in the decoration of White Star ships such as the Oceanic, as well as Dawpool Manor.
On Twitter, the Victorian Society called for the fireplace to be bought for relocation to a museum in the Liverpool area.
An opening bid of £20,000 was requested on eBay but by the end of the auction on Wednesday no bids appear to have been made.
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 DOGS AND SUPERSIZE SALVAGE WERE POPULAR IN 2011
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.
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 LASSCO, JARDINIQUE AND ROBERT MILLS ON BBC TV
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 Dorchester on Thames, and James Lewis, auctioneer from Bamfords in Matlock, who both bought items at a Peterborough antiques fair with a £750 wad of cash. Jonty Hearnden bought an Edwardian wirework two-tier planter for £80 which he sold to Edward Neish at Jardinique for £150, and seven cast iron gravemarkers for £80 which he sold to Anthony Reeve at Lassco for £180. "I haven't seen any like this before," commented Anthony Reeve, "and the whole gravey thing can spook people."
The Victorian cast iron numbered grave markers by 'Maldon Iron Works Co Ltd' were required under the Cemeteries Clauses Act 1847 clause 41 which states (and is still current UK law):
'Plan and book of reference to be kept, and be open to inspection. The company shall cause a plan of the cemetery to be made upon a scale sufficiently large to show the situation of every burial place in all the parts of the cemetery so set apart, and in which an exclusive right of burial has been granted; and all such burial places shall be numbered, and such numbers shall be entered in a book to be kept for that purpose, and such book shall contain the names and descriptions of the several persons to whom the exclusive right of burial in any such place of burial has been granted by the company; and no place of burial, with exclusive right of burial therein, shall be made in the cemetery without the same being marked out in such plan, and a corresponding entry made in the said book, and the said plan and book shall be kept by the clerk of the company.'
'Escape to the country' is a series shadowing city people who are looking to buy a house in rural parts of Britain, presented by Jules Hudson, an archaeologist. The series also produces compilations, and one entitled 'Chapel Conversions' featured Robert Mills Ltd where Colin Scull walked Jules Hudson through the showrooms of ecclesiastical architectural antiques and stained glass specialist Robert Mills of Bristol.
Jules Hudson started the ball rolling, "There is a debate that it is appropriate to take things out of churches."
Colin Scull replied, "Churches are now modernising to have a warmer multi-use feel so a lot of the larger Victorian pieces are being removed. These items should be saved, reused and moved on to another life."
Regarding a large 1920s chancel screen in the showroom Jules Hudson said, "The job of getting it out of a church and re-erecting it here, then taking it apart and sending it to a client - that's a major operation."
Explaining why a church would dispose of a splendid pulpit now in his showroom Colin Scull said, "The priest no longer wanted to be stood up there in a dramatic formal way giving fire and brimstone. He wanted to be low down amongst the congregation."
The tour with Jules Hudson created a six minute long section in the programme which included a look at stained glass restoration, the reuse of a confessional as an airing cupboard and a discussion on panelled rooms where Colin explained that far from being an inflexible insertion into a rigid room shape, a panelled room could be adapted to more or less any room, and he pointed out where Robert Mills biggest, most expensive and elaborate oak panelled room had already been adapted for reuse in a different room at least once before in its hundred year old life.
The episodes of 'Escape to the country' and 'Put your money where your mouth is' are currently available on BBC iPlayer.
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 SALVO FAIR MOVES TO STUBBINGS NEAR MAIDENHEAD
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, construction professionals, developers, builders, landscapers and journalists will be welcome. There are normally around 80 exhibitors, many of whom are supporters of the Salvo Code for good practice in stock purchasing.
The Salvo Fair is a selling trade fair to which the public are invited. Zones include architectural salvage and reclaimed building materials, garden and decorative antiques, recraft retro steampunk vintage and mid-century modern, craftspeople and green building. The fair is organised by Ruby Hazael of Salvo Llp.
Salvo Fair is normally held at Knebworth in Hertfordshire but this year will be held at Stubbings in Berkshire owing to the fabulous Red Hot Chili Peppers booking Salvo's normal summer fair weekend dates at Knebworth.
Stubbings is a Georgian house in Maidenhead Thicket, site of an ancient Celtic farmstead, that became the home of Sir Guy Carleton, first Lord Dorchester, until his death in 1808, to where he retired after a military career in North America culminating as governor of Quebec. Stubbings was then home to the Skrine family, descended from a secretary of Sir Francis Bacon. From 1941-45 it was home to Queen Wilhemina of the Netherlands. Stubbings was then bought by Sir Thomas Merton, where he lived until 1969. He was a scientist who helped devise aircraft radar screens during the Battle of Britain. He was also a collector of Italian Renaissance art who famously said, "Pictures are like women. There are quite a number of them which one can admire without wanting to live with them." He also wrote,"'Signal to noise ratio' is a term often used in physics. In fact it applies to everything we try to understand and measure, from the precision with which the deflection of a galvanometer can be read to the amount we can grasp of a conversation at a cocktail party, where the signal is what someone is saying to us and the noise is the integrated chatter of the other guests. It applies also to the fine arts. In what is perhaps one the greatest of all works of art, Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's, it is nearly all signal and no noise, while in the work of the action painters it is all noise and no signal. There is nothing new in the products of the action painters. Leonardo da Vinci in his notes says that 'if you look at any walls spotted with various stains or with a mixture of different kinds of stones, if you are about to invent some scene you will be able to see in it a resemblance to different landscapes adorned with mountains etc., etc., and an infinite number of things which you can reduce into separate and well-conceived forms.' After his death in 1969 his collection was dispersed to Washington National Gallery, Walker Gallery and the Courtauld's Insitutute.
Other changes to Salvo Fair 2012 include
1. Zoning
Up to now bigger stands have been nearer the main entrance, but next year I want to zone the fair with the architectural salvage zone closest to the main entrance irrespective of stand size. Garden antiques would be next nearest. Then modern salvage, retro, vintage and steampunk. Then decorative antiques. Then the rest. The aim would be to make it easier for visitors to appreciate the different sectors of the trade.
2. Reclaimed materials park
The reclaimed stone park worked well this year, bringing reclaimed stone prominently to the front of the fair. Next year we would like to expand this to include a reclaimed wood park. The aim would be to encourage more reclaimed materials to be reused. The reclaimed materials park will be within the architectural salvage zone.
3. Construction professionals CPD day
I spoke to Ian Grant, editor of Sustainable Building magazine, at this year's fair about holding a CPD day for 50 or so mainstream construction professionals. This would comprise of a morning of three or four talks followed by a guided tour around the fair. The aim would be to encourage more professionals to reuse and for the salvage trade to find out from the professionals what the trade can do to make it easier for more to be specified by construction professionals.
4. Best in show
At Salvo Fair 2011 it was suggested by a couple of people that we should acknowledge higher quality stands by presenting a 'best in show' award. Wellers and Gaze have agreed to sponsor a prize. The award would be made according to simple criteria, for example, the stand which looks best, is truest to reuse, and is best or clearest laid out for visitors.
5. Ad hoc fair committee
Salvo has formed an ad hoc fair committee comprised of a group of longstanding Salvo Fair architectural salvage stalwarts who also usually book early - currently Jason and Nadine Davies of Architectural Forum, Dean Cannadine of Architectural Salvage Source, Guy Trench of Antiques By Design, Julian Sims of Morways Reclamation, Justin Miles-Booy of Arc Reclamation and Lawrence Skilling of Chancellors Church Antiques - which we hope may help to improve Salvo Fair 2012.
(Download the pdf Booking Form using the link below.)
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