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 QUALITY YORK FLAGSTONES HIT £192SQYD AT GAZE
Top lot at Gaze's architectural salvage and statuary sale on Saturday 26 February at Diss was a rosso di Verona marble wall fountain which sold for a mid-estimate £11,000 (plus 12.5 per cent buyer's premium). It was made sometime in the 1960s or 70s, was 75ins wide by 81ins high, the outlet carved with a green man mask, the bowl on two substantial paw feet. It was not accompanied by a photo in the catalogue. After the sale Carl Willows, expert in charge, said, "It was such an awkward lump, I didn't get a chance to lay it out properly until just before the sale." It went to a telephone bidder. The inscription FONS ACQUA DULCIS would in Latin be FONS AQUAE DULCIS and mean source of fresh water.
A lot of three palletts comprising 35.15sqyds of York flagstone from Swan Hunter's drawing rooms on Tyneside sold for £6,000, which equates to £192sqyd or £230sqm. This impressive sum was paid by a Norfolk private underbid by another private. It was excellent quality, two inch or less thick, and the best that Carl Willows had seen at Gaze of which more will be forthcoming in their next architectural sale.
A flotilla of WC pans pitched up at this auction, consigned by five different people, of which the top lot was 'The Deluge', an 1899 cream slip-glazed earthenware pan, with the outside of the pedestal had empire motifs in light relief, marked 'TTH' for Thomas Twyford Hanley. The Deluge was the first wash-down one-piece pan produced by Twyfords, after their first wash-out pan, 'The Unitas', so revolutionary that in Russia a toilet pan is to this day known as a unitas - according to Twyfords PR department, that is. The Deluge, ranked top toilet lot at Gaze's, sold for a high £480 against stiff trade opposition. The brown and cream WC pans did better than the blue and white pans at the sale.
"The sale went well. It was deep with mud and raining on the day, which is the way we like it. It was a foul day but there was a good firendly atmosphere" said Mr. Willows. There were roughly as many private bidders as trade at the sale, with new faces galore who were complimentary about the sale and pleased at the low level of the buyer's premium.
The Modern Design sale will be on 12 March, and Wartime Memorabilia on 19 March, which features uniforms including a Land Girl's, pots and pans, 1940s furniture and furnishings, a 1939 Fordson tractor and smallholder's implements.
Editor's note: Physically, the Deluge, first produced c1889, looked not unlike a slightly more rounded, streamlined version of the 'Unitas' (that is, it was a pedestal closet, with a straight, rather than a cut-away front), but technically it was quite different. Made in one or two pieces, in earthenware or fireclay, the 'Deluge', had the refinement of a special new trap with a 3inch equal bore, and this, in combination with a 2inch water seal and the patent after flush chamber, made it one of the cleanest flushers you could buy. [source: Twyfords]
Twyfords was by this time based at the new Cliffe Vale Pottery, purpose-built by Thomas Twyford, near Stoke on Trent. The Potteries trade journal in 1893 states:
The principal line is undoubtedly sanitary closets, the latest patents being Twyford's Unitas wash-out and the Deluge wash-down, each combining water-closet basin, urinal and slop sink. Both are made on the pedestal principle, which dispenses with the unnecessary and unhygienic wood-work, so common in ordinary water-closets, and both present the advantages of improved formation as regards basin and trap, and perfect flushing arrangements, affording thorough cleanliness and clearing of all contents through trap, which latter is continuously covered by a deep water seal, thus effectually guarding against any possible escape of sewer gas. The matter and appearance has also received due attention - shape and ornamentation being alike elegant, and the general finish first-class.
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BIOREGIONAL COMMISSIONS WORKING PAPER ON A TRADE ASSOCIATION
At a meeting in 2010 to discuss ways to increase the reuse of reclaimed building material held at the South East Centre for the Built Environment in Reading, two issues were deemed to be holding things back - the lack of a reclamation trade association and the absence of a web portal.
In January 2011, Jonathan Essex of BioRegional Reclaimed commissioned Thornton Kay of Salvo to compile a working paper on trade association matters. This paper covered four topics - an outline of the history of proposals to form a trade association from 1992 - 2006, the role and structure of a trade association, how Salvo could be incorporated into a trade association, and evidence of the need for a trade association. (The working paper is attached below.)
As a follow-up, Mr. Essex arranged a discussion group meeting in London between Steve Tomlin of RITA, Thornton Kay of Salvo, Dan Taylor of SEEDA and Craig Williams of Making Vision Reality - a professional facilitator. Additional inputs during the meeting came from Alastair Kerr of the Wood Panel Industries Federation who explained how their trade association worked, and Maxine Narburgh from Eastex, the materials exchange web portal.
The single most important topic of the day seemed to be that a trade association needs a single simple message around which members could be brought together and which would be heard and adopted by mainstream construction policymakers, EU, government and the media.
The message which struck a chord at the meeting was that every construction or landscaping project should reuse a percentage of reclaimed building material or architectural salvage. The target percentage could start quite small and increase over time. In the past twenty years the average amount of reclaimed material reused in a building project has been less than 2 per cent by value.
The suggestion was made that there should be another meeting with a larger group of people to see if there was further common ground and scope for more progress to be made.
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Date Created : 02 Mar 2011 14:30:30
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 BATH DECORATIVE ANTIQUES FAIR NEXT WEEK
The 22nd Decorative Antiques Fair will be held from Thursday 10th March to Sunday 13th March at the Pavilion in Bath, Somerset. This year exhibitor Christophe Edwards is bringing along some interesting antique items, including a mid 19th century copper bath with timber frame. Salvo Fair stalwart Guy Trench will be exhibiting his eclectic mix of furniture and lamps made from and inspired by all sorts of found objects.
Opening times:
Thursday 10th March: 3pm - 7pm
Friday 11th March: 11am - 7pm
Saturday 12th March: 10am - 6pm
Sunday 13th March: 10am - 4pm
Address: The Pavilion, North Parade Road, Bath BA2 4EU (Follow Signs for Sport Centre)
Tickets and Enquiries: 01225 742240
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 LASSCO SELLS CHARLES WHEELER'S 1950S BARCLAYS BANK DOORS
Anthony Reeve of Lassco Three Pigeons (or Arthur as the ATG prefers to call him) has sold the 17ft tall, four ton, entrance doors to the former Barclays Bank (dem. 1988) in Lombard Street, to be relocated as a feature set into the boundary of an amazing walled garden somewhere in England.
Barclays left their Lombard Street HQ and moved to Canary Wharf, removing the doors' substantial oak backing so that they no longer functioned as doors, and setting them high in an atrium in the replacement building, opposing each other, where the new owner no longer wanted them. The inevitable phone call took Mr. Reeve, ever-questing 1950s wheelerabilia, to the building site. He took one look at the ponderous problem and offered to buy the doors provided the contractors got them out of the atrium and on to Lassco's truck, which they did.
The doors were cast by the Morris Singer art bronze foundry, formerly in Frome and now Braintree, which in 2010 was bought by the artist with a business degree, Nasser Azam, and renamed Zahra Modern Art Foundries. Morris Singer cast many famous bronze commissions inlcuding two of the 1867 Edwin Landseer lions in Trafalgar Square, and Truth Overcoming Falsehood by Alfred Stevens in St Paul's Cathedral.
Although the doors were sold for a substantial sum, we are guessing that they did not outrank the currently most expensive Lassco entranceway inventory consisting of a pair of scagliola columns and pilasters with a ticket price of £90,000. This entranceway was believed to have been acquired by Lassco from a Regency house in Tonbridge twenty years ago, and sold to Pelham Galleries, whose stock includes another fabulous entranceway - the Chesterfield House (dem. 1937) railings, originally made for the Duke of Chandos country house, Canons in Middlesex (dem. 1747), probably by the French Huguenot craftsman Jean Montigny. Pelham Galleries decorated their stand at TEFAF Maastricht with the scagliola set, and left them on commission sale at Lassco Brunswick House between times.
"The set is exactly what you see in first rate country houses," said Adrian Amos of Lassco, "and, by the way, nothing at Lassco is expensive."
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QUEEN JULIANA FOUR DAY ATTIC SALE BY SOTHEBY'S AMSTERDAM
Of the 1500 lots at the forthcoming charity sale of the estate of the late Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, 14-17 March, only a small number were acquired by Queen Juliana and her spouse Prince Bernhard, and by far the greater share was accumulated over the last 160 years from Kings Willem II and III, Queen Emma and Queen Wilhelmina. Many of the works still bear inventory marks and labels to show their origins in the seven palaces and residences throughout the Netherlands.
Among the lots of crockery, cutlery, glassware, furniture and paintings, the lots of possible trade interest include thirty decorative giltwood pelmets, some frames, mirrors and lighting, and two bidets and a travelling case belonging to Queen Emma.
The link below is to the pdf version of the catalogue. Sotheby's online version had some kind of bug which prevented viewing the lots (using Google Chrome and Mac OSX 10.6).
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 BONHAMS SELLS LYNETTE PROLER'S GARDEN ANTIQUE STOCKS
Houston's long-established garden antiques dealer, and incidentally Fabergé expert, Lynette Proler, is selling 150 items of Italian, French, and English antique garden ornament and statuary in the Bonhams and Butterfields sale on 7 March in San Francisco.
Lynette Proler is closing the business and selling all the stock but will continue to represent Bulbeck Foundry and will act as a consultant for special projects.
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 HOUSTON ADOPTS A BUILDING MATERIALS REUSE CODE
Effective from 1 January 2011, the city of Houston adopted a series of amendments to its 2006 building code, including Appendix R Reuse of Materials intended to encourage the reuse of materials when possible and divert construction debris from landfills. The appendix is not mandatory, but specifies parameters of when materials are to be considered allowable for reuse while not compromising the integrity of the materials.
It states that the reuser should be vigilant regarding lead, asbestos, radon, PCBs, and other potentially harmful substances that are no longer allowed in buildings. Buildings built before 1978 may have used lead paint. Asbestos may be found in the insulation, fireproofing, floors, walls or roof. Newer buildings may have asbestos in the floors or roof. Any flourescent light fixtures manufactured prior to 1979 may contain PCBs; new capacitors should be labeled: 'No PCBs'.
The appendix defines 'good condition' as materials that have been visually inspected by the code official and that are determined to be fit for installation. Materials shall be in sufficient condition to reuse without potential harm to the health, safety, and welfare of the public. Materials shall not have any mold or water damage. Wood products shall not contain any holes other than wire or nail holes. Wood products shall not contain rot, splits, buckling, warpage or other deterioration that would prevent the material from functioning in its intended use. The condition shall be determined by the code official.
Appendix R also defines and allows for downcycling where appropriate. Irregular materials are materials that have been made by a manufacturer, but do not meet the exact specifications of the product and cannot be sold for their specific purpose. These materials can be downcycled, for example, an irregular paver meant for commercial use could be used for residential purposes.
The essence of the code is to easily allow reuse where material is not essential to structural integrity, but to require better proof where structural use is proposed. For example, brick and stone veneer or cladding may be reused for paving and flooring, and non-structural walls, but for structural reuse an engineer must review and stamp the plans.
The reuse of timber is allowed structurally provided it is a minimum 4ft long and installed one dimension higher than required. Columns, pillars and posts can be reused in their original capacity.
The reuse code covers concrete, asphalt, brick, stone, glass block, metals, wood, agrifiber, plastic, windows, doors, insulation, siding, roofing, ceiling tiles, carpet, drywall, cement board, hinges and hardware.
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Date Created : 28 Feb 2011 13:22:00
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 STOLEN ICON RETURNED BY BOY GEORGE
Boy George has returned a stolen damaged icon of Jesus Christ Pantokrator to Bishop Porfyrios of Neapolis, the Cyprus Orthodox Church's representative in Brussels, at a ceremony in the hall of the temple of the Holy Anargyroi in Highgate, after the Bishop saw it in a Dutch TV interview with Boy George in his London home, and suspected it to have been stolen after the 1974 invasion of Cyprus by Turkey in 1974.
"We researched and found the icon came from the Church of St Charalambous in the occupied village of New Chorio Kithreas," Bishop Porfyrios told the BBC. He then contacted Boy George who said that he bought the icon from an art dealer in the Kings Road in 1985 in good faith, did not know it came from occupied Cyprus, and was happy to return it.
The icon is a 300-year-old image of Jesus, produced in the Byzantine style in the Heraclidios monastery near Nicosia, which produced icons for most of the churches in Cyprus in the 18th century. The left side was missing due to aging and deterioration, and the background is gold leaf.
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EU BANS SIX TOXIC CHEMICALS
The European Union will ban six toxic chemicals between 2013 and 2016, three of which are commonly used in plastic household items. Among the compounds are three plastic softening phthalates, a musk fragrance, a flame retardant and a hardener for epoxy resin.
Although the most toxic phthalates have been banned in children's toys since 1999, a survey last October showed some are commonly found in products on supermarket shelves, including items regularly used by children, such as pencil cases and erasers.
The decision is being taken under the REACH regulation on chemicals, adopted in 2006 in what has been billed as the most epic lobbying battle in the EU's history.
The EU regulation on Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals - REACH - aims to make chemicals safer for human health and the environment by placing the burden on businesses to prove their products are safe before they can be placed on the market.
In January 2010, the European Chemicals Agency identified 29 substances that present the greatest cause for concern regarding public health and the environment. An EU roadmap is expected to increase the number of chemicals on the list to 135 by 2012.
Further regulatory headaches may lie ahead for a number of chemical companies, as new Environment Commissioner Janez Potočnik said that "it is becoming obvious that REACH is not enough" to cover nanomaterials (ultra long chain molecules used in teflon, and stone and marble sealers), suggesting that the EU would take action to remedy regulatory gaps on the matter.
All this begs the complicated question, will reclaimed building material that contains any of these banned chemicals also be banned from resale in the secondhand market? Anyone with an answer, please contact Salvo.
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Location : Belgium > Brabant Brussels
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ALLIANCE TO TACKLE HERITAGE CRIME AND ARCHITECTURAL THEFT FORMED
A new English Heritage led initiative Alliance to Reduce Crime against Heritage (ARCH), has been formed by EH, the Association of Chief Police Officers, the Crown Prosecution Service, local authorities, charities, the Church of England and other groups to systematically tackle and reduce heritage crime.
In the face of what is reported as an escalating crime wave which has seen 'thieves ripping up Celtic crosses' the organisation is 'establishing a nationwide crime-busting partnership'. The true extent of heritage crime is difficult to pin down because of the way it is recorded and the fact it tends to be under-reported by victims, but as far as Salvo Theft Alerts are concerned the scale of these types of theft has been reducing over the past twenty years.
Also, at the end of the 1990s County police forces abandoned their specialist antiques officers due to the drop in crime, and listed building officers stopped the small number of crimes of architectural and garden theft reported to Salvo completely. So too did the National Trust.
Architectural theft is a crime that needs eradicating, and we believe that more theft alerts would help, both to recover stolen items as well as sending the right message to criminals. It does seem that in the past few years theft of lead and bronze have surged, but these are not salvage or antique related, but scrap-metal related.
Crimestoppers and the National Trust are reported to be signing up to ARCH.
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Date Created : 24 Feb 2011 23:04:02
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 BAROCKENGEL MIT ZWEI FLüGELN
Es ist gute Tradition sich mit besonders spektakulären Jagderfolgen ablichten zu lassen, dass dem Inhaber dabei Flügel wuchsen war keine Absicht.
Dieses gut erhaltene und wunderbar verarbeitete zweifügelige Barockportal ist eines der spektakulärsten Objekte das jemals den Weg in unsere Einrichtung gefunden hat. Besonders ungewöhnlich ist die Tatsache, daß das Portal einerseits ungestrichen ist und damit eine besonders attraktive Oberfläche aufweist, andererseits aber die Zeitläufte trotzdem vergleichsweise unbeschadet überstanden hat.
Das zweiflügeliche Barockportal ist 232 cm breit und 297 cm hoch und kostet
Eur 6.800,00 incl. 19% MwSt.
Translation: Baroque door
Florian Langenbeck's Historische Türen has salvaged a baroque door. "It's traditional for the hunter to pose next to a spectacular catch," he said. The double moulded raised two-panel double door in the German baroque style, probably oak, is well preserved, Florian said, especially as (or perhaps because) it was not painted or treated in any way which has left it with a fine patina. The price includes VAT.
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Location : Germany > Baden-Wurttemberg
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Date Created : 24 Feb 2011 22:43:11
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 DEPOSED TUNISIAN PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTER USED ANTIQUITIES AS GARDEN ORNAMENT
In a recently-abandoned villa owned by the daughter of the former president of Tunisia, Sakhr El Matri, antiquities have been filmed on Al Arabiya TV decorting her swimming pool.
Many of the artefacts and antiquities confiscated by the Ben Alis originally came from the Bardo Museum, which has the world's largest collection of Roman mosaics. According to Samir Aounallah, the Tunisian museums committee president, Leila Ben Ali used museum artefacts, including mosaics and frescoes, to decorate the family's villas.
Archaeological sites have also been affected. "I have accredited sources that have said sites in Cap Bon had objects taken from them by the Ben Ali clan," said Aounallah. Although the director was not sure whether these pieces had been returned to their rightful owners, he did point out that a significant amount of "objects found in the villas of the Ben Ali clan have now been put back in their rightful collections."
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 PULPIT TIME CAPSULE
. . . So there we were, lifting up this pulpit, when lo and behold underneath pops out this envelope. The Frimley Parish Church Time Capsule. Inside was a small packet of unused stamps, the Parish Magazine and a legal document; all dated from 1951. This was the year that the church took the momentous decision to lower their old pulpit by 22 inches. Being C. of E. this was not simply a case of the vicar borrowing a saw. Instead there was a Consistory Court Case (and these can have proper lawyers at full rate) to debate and ratify the whole affair complete with long incomprehensible parchment.
In fairness, I am sure this system is to protect against rogue priests chopping down the bell tower, but it did strike me as rather a lot of work to do a simple carpentry job. To give you some of the flavour of how the 'Faculty' is worded: 'HENRY' (yes, as in Henry VIII) 'by divine permission Bishop of Guildford to all Christian people to whom these Presents shall come or whom they shall or may in anywise concern and more especially to the Parishioners and Inhabitants of the Parish of FRIMLEY…'
At this point, things start to get really unreadable. To the best of my knowledge, these Faculties or licenses are done in the same way to this day. Quite a tricky business if all you want to do is paint a door, or whatever.
This is a follow up story to 'Moving a Pulpit' in SalvoNEWS on 10 Feb 2011
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 1078 LOTS OF ARCHITECTURAL SALVAGE AT GAZE'S ON SATURDAY
Among the 1078 lots at T W Gaze architectural salvage and statuary this Saturday will be a number of cast iron radiators and a selection of sanitaryware including several WC pans. The sale will, as usual, be conducted by two auctioneers simultaneously.
See the link below for the full catalogue:
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 INAUGURAL PREDEMOLITION AND RECLAMATION AUDIT WORKSHOP
BioRegional's first predemolition audit training workshop was held in Ashford yesterday. The one-day session was attended by a mixed group of twenty-three construction professionals including architects, builders, developers, reclaimers and demolishers.
The point of the predemolition survey, or reclamation audit, is to assess the types and quantities of material arising from demolition, with a view to encouraging more of it to be reused.
The morning was spent on BioRegional's one planet living, the ICE demolition protocol, and the benefits of reclaiming, at the end of which were two exercises - one on the carbon consequences of the reclamation of different material, and the other to list salvage arising from photographs of four demolitions of different ages and types of buildings. The carbon exercise used Craig Jones' ICE figures and the theoretical carbon displacement of reuse. Since Europe's finest LCA mathematicians have been unable to provide a definitive environmental maths of reuse, it was not surpising that BioRegional's was a broad brush approach.
The morning ended with a breakneck dash through carbon and construction stats with several complex powerpoint slides flashed through in few minutes. One slide from Habitat For Humanity stated that 25 jobs are created for every 1000 tons of material saved per year. This was for USA social enterprise, but in the commercial UK salvage sector in 2007 that figure was less than ten jobs per 1000 tons.
The workshop was held at Concept Training in Ashford, and after lunch the group visited their training workshops where young people were being trained as builders to learn different skills - mainly carpentry - and how to reclaim and reuse.
In the afternoon case studies of reclamation and reuse were given at the start of which one attendee commented that in their experience reuse was client-led, not design-led. BioRegional's case studies were of client-led salvage. Jonathan Essex made a point about salvaging and reusing door closers. The point that ideally doorsets should be salvaged intact, complete with closer, knobs, catches, locks, hinges, liners and architrave all held in place, in order to make them easier to specify for reuse was overlooked.
With the reuse by BedZed of reclaimed steelwork, it was explained that the flange and web of each old RSJ was measured and load-deflection tested before the RSJ was allowed to be reused. Perhaps BioRegional could have beefed up on other case studies from BedZed, including negatives or failures, such as, for example, the reason why reclaimed doors were not reused in the project.
One of the audience asked whether they needed to obtain licenses and waste transfer notes when they move or stored salvaged material. Reclaimed bricks with old mortar still attached does come under the regs, whereas pallets of cleaned reclaimed bricks do not. Perhaps a slide or two about the Controlled Waste Regs would be a good idea.
Specifications for reclamation and reuse were included, aw well as how to encourage mainstream construction and demolition contractors to save more in situations where reuse was not client-led. Should contractors be forced to save material by the design team? Should they be encouraged to volunteer reclamation statements at competitive tender stage, with the understanding that salvage would be a factor in the choice of the successful contractor? Brian Murphy of GreenSpec, an authority on this type of issue, who was at the inaugural workshop, said that the best option is to specify that the demolition contractor must salvage a certain quantity and then allow each tenderer to state additional salvage which they would plan to undertake.
Specification clauses and prelim clauses were given to attendees. Mr. Murphy's main advice to procurement departments and quantity surveyors was that the prelims wording should be of the form 'shall require' reclamation, and the specification clauses wording must also be included otherwise reclamation and reuse will not happen. He gave as an example, 'The door, liner, architrave and all door furniture number 26 from the demolition, must be reused as door 47 in the new build'.
Towards the end the workshop echoed the forthcoming British Standard, BS8905, guidance on the sustainable use of materials, which covers all three aspects of sustainability - economic, social and environmental.
The economic sustainability in BS8905 at a macro level can be seen by the total number of UK salvage businesses operating, the lack of government subsidies they receive, and the significant amount of tax the sector pays. It can also be seen at a micro level through the financial value of individual reclaimed products. The workshop set about quantifying the economic value of reclaimed building material from demolition, which was perhaps the easiest to do.
Quantifying the environmental sustainability of reuse is difficult. The 2008 EU Waste Framework Directive has prioritised reuse above recycling and energy from waste. Clearly reusing a reclaimed brick avoids the need to make a new brick along with all the environmental impacts, including carbon emissions, associated with its manufacture. The reuse of building material imported, such as tropical hardwood, may save biodiversity and rainforest habitat.
The social sustainability of reuse is also hard to quantify, but Jonathan Essex argued that the reuse of reclaimed wood at Concept Training and the national Wood Recycling Projects, whose main aim is the employment and training, is of benefit to society - and is socially sustainable. Again reuse of tropical hardwood may save the resources and way of life of indigenous peoples.
The one-day workshop could not cover some of the more arcane issues, but they were touched on.
Overall, this was an excellent workshop which hopefully will encourage greater salvage and reuse. It could do with some trimming on general sustainability, a greater focus on predem surveys and practical reclamation issues, and more clarity and information in the case studies - no doubt all of which will evolve over time.
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 DID COALBROOKDALE CAST MONGERS HOB GRATE?
A fine Georgian cast iron hob grate was collected recently by Sam Coster of Mongers of Hingham from a cottage under the Ironbridge at Coalbrookdale. On Sam's facebook page he asks whether it coould have been cast at the same time as the bridge.
"It is really a hob grate with fitted reeded back and side panels. It came from a cottage built in the 1780s, and Ironbridge was finished in 1779. I feel fairly confident that it was cast at the Coalbrookdale foundry at least," Mr. Coster said.
The beaded surround and register plate look quite early, although the fret looks to be a later addition. The beaded decoration is echoed on the fascia to the hobs as well. The use of a pricey commodity such as iron for the surround, when masonry would normally have been used at that period, fits with Coalbrookdale being awash with iron at the time. Here is a contemporary account:
'The trees are few in this valley, they are stunted in their growth and bare of leaves; the ground, at every step, presents fragments of iron and coal, and the dark orifices of the pits dug for the extraction of these useful minerals. The birds that animate and enliven country scenes, fly from this bleak and barren spot.
'Houses are seen scattered on all hands filled with a prodigious number of workmen, enormous masses of iron and coal, vast furnaces, forges continually at work, iron wagons loaded with manufacture of the same metal; and lastly, the famous Iron Bridge which joins the two banks of the Severn, a monument unique in its kind.
'The furnace, in the year 1787, had been kept burning for ten years without interruption; a remarkable circumstance, for these furnaces, in general, do not last so long. The vast bellows that maintain this fire make a noise which one cannot, without having heard it, for any idea of. They are managed by a single man, who proportions the force of the blast to the degree of strength that is meant to be given to the fire. In these workhouses there reigns a suffocating heat which custom enables the workmen to endure close the furnace, while other people are obliged to remain at a considerable distance.
'It is calculated that in Coalbroodale there are melted about a thousand quintals [50 tons] of iron a day. The metal is so common in the country that it is employed for all purposes; from huge cylinders of steam engines to the smallest kitchen utensils; solid wagons as well as their wheels are made of it; large boxes are cast at once, and even the tracks on the ground for carriages are made of it. As the soil is sandy, in order to transport easily the heavy loads of iron-ware, the roads for ten or twelve miles round, are furnished with four inch tracts for wheels; two for carriages going from Coalbrookdale, and two for those coming to it; so that the wagons which are constantly going and coming never interfere. They are all made on the same model, the wheels fit the tracks, and roll over them with great ease. The expense which such an apparatus must have cost is sufficient to shew the richness of these mines.' [Edinburgh Magazine July 1789]
The Coalbrookdale Company started making the world's first iron railways in 1767.
Back to the hob grate, there appear to be two medallion heads on the castings. Could these help to date and locate the its makers?
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 THE LONG GOODBYE
Tommy Atkins, Tommy Atkins!
In Flanders fields you lie
Otto Brundt the Prussian lies nearby
Skylarks rise upon the morning breeze
To sing their songs of praise
Wild flowers bloom in no mans' land
Gently swaying to and fro
Tommy Atkins, Tommy Atkins!
They are waving there for you, for you.
[Ronnie Wotton dictated this poem to Peter Watson of Cox's Yard in Feb 2011. The following notes and poems about Tommy Atkins have been added by the editor, trawled from the web:
Tommy Atkins (often just Tommy) is a term for a soldier in the British Army particularly associated with World War I. It is known to have been used as far back as 1743. The Duke of Wellington was inspired by the bravery of Thomas Atkins at the Battle of Boxtel in 1794, during the Flanders Campaign, After a fierce engagement, the Duke, in command of the 33rd Regiment of Foot, spotted the best man-at-arms in the regiment, Private Thomas Atkins, terribly wounded. The Private said "It's all right, sir. It's all in a day's work" and died shortly after.
Rudyard Kipling published Tommy as part of the Barrack-Room Ballads dedicated to 'T.A.' in 1892:
I went into a public-'ouse to get a pint o' beer,
The publican 'e up an' sez, "We serve no red-coats here."
The girls be'ind the bar they laughed an' giggled fit to die,
I outs into the street again an' to myself sez I:
O it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, go away";
But it's "Thank you, Mister Atkins", when the band begins to play,
The band begins to play, my boys, the band begins to play,
O it's "Thank you, Mister Atkins", when the band begins to play.
I went into a theatre as sober as could be,
They gave a drunk civilian room, but 'adn't none for me;
They sent me to the gallery or round the music-'alls,
But when it comes to fightin', Lord! they'll shove me in the stalls!
For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, wait outside";
But it's "Special train for Atkins" when the trooper's on the tide,
The troopship's on the tide, my boys, the troopship's on the tide,
O it's "Special train for Atkins" when the trooper's on the tide.
Yes, makin' mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep
Is cheaper than them uniforms, an' they're starvation cheap;
An' hustlin' drunken soldiers when they're goin' large a bit
Is five times better business than paradin' in full kit.
Then it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, 'ow's yer soul?"
But it's "Thin red line of 'eroes" when the drums begin to roll,
The drums begin to roll, my boys, the drums begin to roll,
O it's "Thin red line of 'eroes" when the drums begin to roll.
We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too,
But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you;
An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints,
Why, single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints;
While it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, fall be'ind",
But it's "Please to walk in front, sir", when there's trouble in the wind,
There's trouble in the wind, my boys, there's trouble in the wind,
O it's "Please to walk in front, sir", when there's trouble in the wind.
You talk o' better food for us, an' schools, an' fires, an' all:
We'll wait for extry rations if you treat us rational.
Don't mess about the cook-room slops, but prove it to our face
The Widow's Uniform is not the soldier-man's disgrace.
For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck him out, the brute!"
But it's "Saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot;
An' it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' anything you please;
An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool -- you bet that Tommy sees!
In 1893 the music hall song Private Tommy Atkins was published with words by Henry Hamilton and music by S. Potter:
O, we take him from the city or the plough,
Ta-ran-ta-ra
And we drill him, and we dress him up so neat,
Ta-ran-ta-ra
We teach him to uphold his manly brow,
Ta-ran-ta-ra
And how to walk, and where to put his feet.
Ta-ran-ta-ran-ta-ra
It doesn't matter who he was before,
Ta-ran-ta-ra
Or what his parents favor'd for his name;
Ta-ran-ta-ra
Once he's pocketed the shilling,
And a uniform he's filling,
We'll call him Tommy Atkins, all the same.
O!
Tommy, Tommy Atkins,
You're a "good un," heart and hand;
You're a credit to your calling,
And to all your native land;
May your luck be never failing,
May your love be ever true!
God bless you, Tommy Atkins,
Here's your Country's love to you!
In time of peace he hears the bugle call
Ta-ran-ta-ra
And in Barracks, from "Revally" to "Lights Out!"
Ta-ran-ta-ra
If "Sentry go" and "Pipeclay" ever pall,
Ta-ran-ta-ra
There's always plenty more of work about.
Ta-ran-ta-ran-ta-ra
As happy as a school boy, and as gay;
Then back he goes to duty,
All for Country, Home and Beauty
And the noble sum of half a crown a day.
O!
Tommy, Tommy Atkins,
You're a good un, heart and hand;
You're a credit to your calling,
And to all your native land;
May your luck be never failing,
May your love be ever true!
God bless you, Tommy Atkins,
Here's your Country's love to you!
In wartime then, it's "Tommy to the Front!"
Ta-ran-ta-ra
And we ship him off, in "Troopers" to the fray,
Ta-ran-ta-ra
We sit at home while Tommy bears the brunt,
Ta-ran-ta-ra
A fighting for his country - and his pay.
Ta-ran-ta-ran-ta-ra
And whether he's on India's coral strand,
Or pouring out his blood in the Soudan,
To keep our flag a-flying,
He's a doing, and a dying,
Ev'ry inch of him a soldier and a man.
O!
Tommy, Tommy Atkins,
You're a "good un," heart and hand;
You're a credit to your calling,
And to all your native land;
May your luck be never failing,
May your love be ever true!
God bless you, Tommy Atkins,
Here's your Country's love to you!
Following British defeat by the Boers at the Battle of Magersfontein in December 1899, Private Smith of the Black Watch, wrote the following poem:
Such was the day for our regiment,
Dread the revenge we will take.
Dearly we paid for the blunder
A drawing-room General's mistake.
Why weren't we told of the trenches?
Why weren't we told of the wire?
Why were we marched up in column,
May Tommy Atkins enquire . . .'
Tommy Atkins was the example name used on army forms from 1815 onwards (according to some) at the command of the Duke of Wellington, inspired by the death of Thomas Atkins. The name's use on, for example, conscription sheets during The First World War often led teenagers who were underage to sign up as Tommy Atkins.
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 INTERVIEW WITH TOP NEW YORK DESIGNER
Deb Schwartz interviews a Paris-born New York interior designer, Delphine Krakoff for the Wall Street Journal. With a passion for flea markets and Sothebys, Ms Krakoff says 'My signature decorating touches are lacquered ceilings, usually white, which give a sense of height. I also use antique wood flooring and antique stone mantels from France combined with a more modernist approach to architecture.'
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 STEVE JOBS'S CALIFORNIAN MANSION TO BE DEMOLISHED
Co-founder and chief executive of Apple Inc, Steve Jobs, has been granted permission to begin dismantling his 1926 Spanish colonial mansion in Woodside. Some elements of the large stucco house will be saved by demolition company for resale or donated to museums.
Steve Jobs bought the house in 1983 and lived in it for ten years. Susan George from Woodside's town planning department said he is planning on building a smaller house elsewhere on the same plot of land.
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 COLONIAL BUILDINGS THREATENED BY DEVELOPERS
Campaigners are worried that Yangon's colonial buildings are likely to be demolished by Chinese developers.
At the turn of the 20th Century Yangon (formally known as Rangoon) in Myanmar had been occupied by the British for five decades. The infrastructure and public services built up by the British Empire were said to have put Yangon on a par with London at the time.
With over 200 buildings still standing, Yangon has the largest collection of colonial buildings in South East Asia. Many of the buildings are extremely derelict. In March 2010, a 15 year old girl was killed when part of a building fell in Shwe Bontha Street. One restoration project saw $38 million spent on reconstructing the white Strand Hotel.
In 2001 the military government placed 198 buildings on a preservation list, but given the political unrest and rural poverty in Myanmar, saving old buildings is not top priority.
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 DISTANCE SELLING REGULATIONS
If you sell to consumers online, or sell at a distance by another method such as digital TV, mail order, phone or fax, then the Distance Selling Regulations may apply to you.
In general you are required to:
- give potential customers certain information in advance, such as your name and address, the goods you are selling or the services you are providing, the price (including all taxes), delivery cost, delivery arrangements, and customers' right to cancel
- send customers an order confirmation giving information such as your postal address and cancellation arrangements
- allow customers a seven working day cooling off period during which they can cancel their contract with you.
There are some exceptions to the regulations such as: financial services, transport, accommodation, leisure services and food, drink or other goods for everyday consumption delivered by a 'regular roundsman' such as a milkman.
The OFT has produced information specifically tailored to the rapidly growing e-commerce sector.
[source: Office of Fair Trading. See Office of Fair Trading website for documents 'Key Information for online retailers' and 'How to protect yourself when trading online'.
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 OPEN WEEK FOR NEW MOBILE RECYCLING PLANT.
From Monday 28th February, JPE Aggregates in Birmingham will host an open week to demonstrate a new modular mobile machine for screening and washing aggregates.
'The M2500 is the worlds first purpose built Mobile Washing Plant, consisting of a fully integrated feeding, screening and sand washing system.' say CDE Ireland Ltd, who manufacture the machine, ' It is possible to wash and accurately size up to 4 products simultaneously, all types of screening media can be easily fitted and changed, minimising installation.' The M2500 integrates with four other systems to provide a complete mobile modular construction, demolition and excavation waste recycling plant.
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DESIGN A POSTER COMPETITION FOR DECON '11
The Building Materials Reuse Association is pleased to announce the Poster Session Program at the DECON '11 Conference.
Architecture, construction management and environmental sustainability students are urged to submit original contributions related to the fields of deconstruction, building materials reuse, and construction and demolition debris (C&D) recycling that can be displayed in an educational poster format.
Overview:
BMRA consistently seeks to advance research and education in the public interest. The purpose of the DECON 2011 Poster Session Program is to provide a means of stimulating interest in deconstruction, building materials reuse, and construction and demolition debris (C&D) recycling research, as well as communicating other useful deconstruction information to the profession to include best practices, new program initiatives, etc.
How It Works
Complete and submit the attached Poster Proposal Form by Friday, March 11, 2011. There are two categories, Undergraduate Student and Graduate Student. Proposals are reviewed and those selected will be notified no later than March 25, 2011. Of those posters selected to display at the conference, these posters will be judged by panels made up of BMRA members and members of the Poster Committee and winners from each of the categories will be announced during the DECON 2011 conference in New Haven. Cash prizes will be given to the first ($200) and second ($100) place winners in both categories. All selected Poster Presenters must be present at their poster in the exhibit hall on Tuesday, May 17 from 5:00 - 6:30pm. If you are not present during this time, your poster will not be judged and you will not be eligible for an award.
[Source: Building Materials Reuse Association
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 LISTED PROPERTY SHOW THIS WEEKEND
Exhibitors for this year's Listed Property Show include Architectural Heritage and Winchcombe Reclamation from Gloucestershire, Charles Brooking Collection from Surrey and The Old Radiator Company from Kent.
Kelly-Marie Smith from Listed Property Owners Club says 'As we all know, owning a listed property is not always health, wealth and happiness. Legislation, conservation and regulation can seem like the three horsemen of the listed property owner's apocalypse. Just finding a decent builder or understanding the VAT rules is enough to give you sleepless nights.'
'The Listed Property Show is a free event for select Listed Property owners, designed to banish all your domestic nightmares and ensure another 12 months of healthy home-ownership. For February 2011, we've bought together the industry's best, all under one roof in London's Olympia.
'It's a unique opportunity for a stress free one-to-one session with our ever-popular conservation officers, who will work through hypothetical plans for extension or alteration. From window and door manufacturers, to craftsmen and 'caring' builders, to the rather more prosaic experts in fire protection or insurance.'
The Listed Property Show is held on Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th February at Olympia in London. Admission is free.
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 ARCHITECTURAL ANTIQUES AT NEC'S HOMEBUILDING & RENOVATING SHOW
Woodstone from Surrey, Cox's Yard from Gloucestershire, Olliffs Architectural from Bristol and The Old Radiator Company from Kent will be exhibiting in March at the Homebuilding Show in Birmingham.
Period Living Magazine were instrumental in organising the group of reclamation stands. This year is the 21st anniversary of Period Living Magazine, and their involvement in Homebuilding is part of a number of shows they are taking part in, including Salvo Fair, Knebworth in June.
The Homebuilding Show is open from Thursday 24th to Sunday 27th March at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham. Free tickets can be applied for the Thursday Trade Day from the website.
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