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SALVO WALLPLANNER - ADS FOR SALE!
If you sell to the trade, professionals or public, why not try a wallplanner ad this year.
There are three spaces left. Each space is 38mm by 63mm and costs GBP£240 plus vat.
The bigger A1, full colour wallplanner will be sent to Salvo Subscribers at Christmas. The ads will also appear on the Salvo Online Calendar which received 7,000 visitors in 2004.
Ads must be booked by Friday 3rd December. Phone Ruby Kay on 020 8761 2316.
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 GAZE BYGONES SALE SAT 6 NOV
T W Gaze, Diss, Norfolk UK, is holding a rural and domestic bygones auction of 1,100 lots starting at 10am Saturday 6th November 2004.
Among the normal paraphernalia of earlier living are a private collection of kitchen items from Tudor times through to Victorian including a clockwork spit engine from 1700 (see photo), various downhearth implements, some crystal radio sets, a 1926 Kenrick catalogue and plenty of 18th and early 19th century bits. 'A cracking good selection of Christmas trade smalls,' said Carl Willows, expert in charge and auctioneer.
T W Gaze, Roydon Road, Diss IP22 4LN. Tel 01379 650306.
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RETROUVIUS OPEN CHRISTMAS SHOP IN LONDON
Retrouvius has opened a shop in London for the run up to Christmas in the former Quiet Revolution cafe at 49 Old Street (near Westland and LASSCO?) transforming it into an emporium of post war design goodies from Basil Spence designed desks to vintage accessories and books, to pieces by up and coming designers including lampshades by William Warren and cushions by Rhonda Drakeford of Multistorey. So whether your designer/architect loved-one craves a rosewood desk or 1940s cookery book for Christmas this is the perfect retro-modern retail therapy. Prices range from £2 to £2,000. Mon - Fri 11 to 7.
[Photo: Adam Hills of Retrouvius seen during a recent DTI sponsored export sales trip to Tokyo
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SAT 30 OCT 2004: YAPTON METAL CO AUCTION
An auction will be held at Yapton Metal Co, West Sussex, UK on Sat 30 Oct at 11am
500 lots are up for sale including fireplaces, garden antiques and statuary, gates, spiral staircases, ironwork, timber, building materials, roll top baths, staddle stones, door and window furniture, antiques, painted and other furniture, collectables, curios, fossils and more.
Viewing: Thurs 28 and Fri 29 Oct from 9am until 5pm and from 9am on day of sale.
Catalogues GBP£2.75 available from Mon 25 Oct.
Contact: Peter Jones, Yapton Metal Co, West Sussex, UK. Tel: 01243 551359
Yapton Metal Co, Burndell Road, Yapton, Arundel, West Sussex. BN18 0HP.
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 BEDOUIN AT THE DECORATIVE ANTIQUES FAIR
THIS is the second year that Chris Thornton of Bedouin in Sussex has exhibited at October Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair in Battersea Park, London UK.
Over a hundred standholders include the likes of Jane Walton's garden antiques and Augustus Brandt's upmarket woodwork. This year the fair has no dateline, which adds rather than detracts to the melee of goods on offer, most of which were antique, some decidedly repro, and some designer shabby chic - but then, hey, who's counting? This show is for designers and dealers not collectors.
The fair has a small exhibition of wallpapers from 1560 to the present, from the archives of Cole & Son, which is well worth a look. It explains why the Brits lagged behind the French at the turn of the 19th century due to a wallpaper tax which lasted from 1712 to 1836. There are examples of papers made by Edward Crace and designed by Pugin for the new Palace of Westminster in 1840. And did you know that Harry Potter invented the rotary wallpaper printing machine in Darwen Lancashire, and patented on 9th December 1839.
Chris Thornton has family connections in Sri Lanka, including a tea plantation - 'It's tiny, only fifty acres, not enough tea to export,' he says - and it was his frequent visits and the Sri Lankan's quality of architectural design and their antiques which gave him the idea of dabbling in the first place. 'The Portuguese got there in the sixteenth century, then the Dutch took over and then the Brits,' Chris said, 'but the Sri Lankan's themselves have always seemed to have a good design sense and adapted to western styles like 1930's art deco minimalist with ease.'
On the Bedouin stand, brought from Sri Lanka are a Gents railway station clock from (£2,200 plus £600 to get working, from Colombo), a very old bronze and iron oil lamp, a frail termite-ridden buddha remnant, a Matisse-like carved granite group of two heads of indeterminate age but old (£875), and some nice furniture. English stuff includes an iron lattice window (£950) and some big thick glass lead-acid battery tanks (£250ea). There is also has an antique Congolese chaise-longue covered in leather, probably from an African exotic animal.
[Photo shows Chris feeling a table while a prospective trade buyer looks on
The Fair is on till Sunday 10 October
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DECLAN AT DECOREX
VICTORIAN Wood Works was a major standholder at the London interior design show Decorex, held at The Royal Hospital in Chelsea last week.
Accompanied by Phil Wilson, long time sales and marketing director at VWW, and Max Edwards, recently-joined designer, MD Declan Molloy worked the floor, or rather floors, of finely finished sample panels of top quality reclaimed, seamlessly moving from Conran to Vogue to New York to Croatia, as the champagne flowed. The stand, or possibly a panel of the new Harrods floor (extreme left chevron in the bigger image), won a BIDA design award at the show, much to Phil's delight.
Mr. Molloy, recently described by a prominent home interest mag as a genial tree sprite, was effusive. 'This is the only show we do, and for us it really is the only show in town,' he said. 'That's why we make a big effort here.' Certainly, all the design mags were there (Country Homes, English Home, Grand Designs, Homes & Gardens, House & Garden, Interior Design - complete with new editor Gary Mason formerly of Period Living - and World of Interiors) as too was ACID, Chesney's (all new modern) and Stuart Interiors (all repro?).
VWW are currently working on phase one, worth £237,000, of a four-phase revamp in hand-finished oak chevron of the menswear floor at Harrods in Knightsbridge, a stone's throw from VWW's new shop (the other new outlet is in Manhattan - tel 212 247 9600).
Victorian Wood Works have shifted away from new flooring back to reclaimed. Last year around half their output was new wood, but this year that will be down to fifteen per cent. 'We ended up playing the margins, with a warehouse and machinery that was only half working, so we decided to go back to our core strength,' Declan said. Grand.
[Photo: Left to right Max Edwards, Declan Molloy and Phil Wilson
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 DEVON HOUSE AND BARNS FOR SALE
FOR SALE: A substantial period house with a courtyard of traditional stone barns, additional modern timber outbuildings, with commercial use in grounds of approximately 1.75 acres. Set in the Blackdown Hills area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. A 4/5 bedroom farmhouse, 3 reception rooms, farmhouse kitchen with Rayburn, 2 bathrooms and annexe potential. Period features including inglenook fireplace and exposed beams. Courtyard of traditional barns currently run as a successful antiques centre. Please contact: Guy Garner at Pugh's Antiques on 01404 42860 or email sales@pughsantiques.com.
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 BICYCLES AT GAZE'S BYGONES SALE
GAZE'S, Diss on Saturday 18 September 2004 Rural & Domestic Bygone sale, starts at 10 with viewing from 8.30, as well as Thursday 16th 2 - 8pm and Friday 17th 10 - 5pm.
Among the lots is a collection of old bicycles and perambulators, including an 1887 Ordinary bicycle (est £1000-£1500) [photo right], an 1898 Crypto Bantam (est £1000-1500), a Safety cycle believed Rayleigh c.1890 (est £2000-2800), an early Victorian child's perambulator (est £100-150), a mid Victorian perambulator handles to both ends (est £300-400).
Contact Thos Wm Gaze & Son, Diss Auction Rooms, Roydon Road, Diss, Norfolk IP22 4LN, UK. Tel: 01379 650 306. Fax: 01379 644 313. Email: sales@dissauctionrooms.co.uk
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 GAZE AUCTION SATURDAY 28 AUGUST
GAZE'S sale of Architectural Salvage and Statuary takes place on Saturday 28 August at 10am at Diss Auction Rooms, Roydon Roads, Diss, Norfolk IP22 3LN.
Approx 1400 lots inc stone & composition figures, gardenm features, Victorian cast iron ended garden benches, urns, gates, railings, stone paving, reclaimed red bricks, pamments, floor bricks, pantiles, ridge tiles, oak and pine timbers, glazed path edgings, cast iron fire inserts, marble & wood fire surrounds, cooking ranges and stoves, carved panelling, oak and pine doors, cast iron radiators, baths, hand basins, sinks, door furniture and stained glass panels
Contact: Carl Willows. Viewing: Thursday prior 2.00 - 8.00pm,
Friday prior 10.00am - 5.00pm and morning of sale from 8.30am.
Telephone 01379 650306.
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POSTERITY 11TH SEPT RELOCATION SALE
POSTERITY of Underhill Farm, Little Malvern, Worcs WR14 4JN, will be holding an auction sale of Architectural Antiques and Garden Effects on Saturday 11th September 2004 commencing at 10.30am.
Among the 500 lots, mostly no reserve, will be a cider press, sundial, troughs, staddle stones, three large romanesque wall panels, garden benches, flagstones, railings, gates, arches, pillars, Georgian and other fire surrounds in pine and slate, hob and register grates, fire baskets, bookcases, pews, display cabinets, chairs, tables, butchers block, skirting, huge 19th century mirror, overmantels, rugs, baths, basins, splashbacks, sanitaryware inc The Malvern Loo, doors of every description, handles, hinges, architrave, architectural drawings, 8ft plaster monk, camel's saddle, and a rare chest of drawers made by the 'Changing Rooms' team for an exhibition in the 1990's and still not fallen apart.
Viewing Friday 10th September 12pm to 6pm and from 9am on the day of the sale. Catalogues available on viewing and sale day. Buyer's premium 11.75 per cent (inc VAT).
All enquiries telephone Posterity on 01684 541254.
Please note that at some point after the sale Posterity will be relocating from Little Malvern, Worcs, to Eastnor in Herefordshire.
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BROOKING ON LAMBTON
CHARLES Brooking is on Lucinda Lambton's "Sublime Suburbia" at 7.30 on ITV I tonight. She also shows us her own home in suburbia, and meets up with an old childhood pal, Lady Caroline Percy, at Syon House.
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THORNTON KAY MOVES TO LONDON
THE office in Northumberland was packed up and moved to London last week and is now beginning to work again.
The new contact details are:
Telephone: 020 8400 6222
Fax: 020 8400 6214
Post: Salvo, 10 Barley Mow Passage, London W4 4PH
Mobile: 07971 217842
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SALVO LONDON HELPLINE 020 7749 9948
Call the Salvo London Helpline on 020 7749 9948 to raise a theft alert for architectural or garden antiques stolen in London. The Salvo London Helpline is sponsored by LASSCO.
What is a theft alert? Each theft alert contains details of an incident of the theft of architectural and garden antiques which has been reported to the police. The theft alert is sent by email to hundreds of dealers, a quarter of UK police forces, specialist auctioneers, and security professionals in the UK and overseas. The theft alert is also placed on www.theft-alerts.com and is printed in SalvoNEWS.
Salvo theft alerts do not contain victims' names, addresses or phone numbers, nor identifiable images of people, nor names of police officers (although police ID numbers are used).
What items can be included on theft alerts? Any fixture or fitting from a house or garden, architectural antiques, bathrooms, bygones, carpets, church and churchyard fixtures, doors, flagstones, furniture, garden ornament, millstones, mirrors, roof tiles and slates, sculpture, statues, staddlestones, stained glass, tapestries, troughs, and war memorials.
What is the chance of a recovery? The recovery rate between 1995 - 2001 was 14 per cent. Since 2001 the recovery rate seems to have dropped (although Salvo has not kept statistics since 2001). This may be because items stolen are now harder to identify, e.g. flagstones, millstones, staddle stones, and mass-produced iron seats.
In November 2003 Salvo approached LASSCO to support the creation of our first city helpline for victims of architectural theft in the London area. LASSCO, the London Architectural Salvage & Supply Co Ltd, based in Shoreditch London, was established in 1979 and is one of the the best known architectural salvage business in the UK. Adrian Amos, founder of LASSCO, was on the trade steering committee from 1993 to 1995 which agreed to what eventually became the Salvo Code, and they were the first to join it in 1995.
Why have a helpline? Salvo receives very few theft alerts from London so we thought a telephone helpline could encourage more people to raise theft alerts. This may result in more recoveries, which may act as a deterrent to theft. Also Salvo theft alerts in London will now be free of charge, thanks to LASSCO. (Salvo theft alerts are free in other areas of the UK where the police subscribe.) Two weeks ago Scotland Yard was informed of the establishment of the helpline and the art and antiques squad immediately agreed to receive all Salvo Theft Alerts by email.
How will it work? Firstly, a London theft must be reported to the local police. After reporting the theft to the police the helpline number is telephoned and arrangements made to send details by email, post or fax to LASSCO. This can be done by the victim, by the police, or by someone who knows the victim, or a professional such as an insurer or solicitor. LASSCO will then raise a theft alert on the Salvo Theft Alert system, which will be emailed out to all Salvo subscribers (including other police forces, the Art Loss Register and Trace), will be printed in SalvoNEWS and will be sent to the Metropolitan Police Art and Antiques Squad for their information. The local police will also be informed so they know a theft alert has been raised.
The following information is needed to raise a theft alert:
- Date the item was last seen.
- The approximate location of the theft (eg W6 or Hammersmith)
- Description of the item, age, colour, material, repairs, alterations, and approximate size.
- Police station contact details and ID of responding officer or CID
- Police crime number or case number
Rewards may be offered, but only subject to conditions which require the goods to be returned and arrests made, unless permission is obtained from the Chief Constable to vary these conditions. Salvo and LASSCO will not take any part of any reward offered in the event of a recovery.
Recoveries take place when the police seize stolen items identified by a dealer or auctioneer, or at a trade fair, or seized on suspicion. Occasionally, if the goods are of high value, insurance companies handle the recovery. The Art Loss Register and Trace also handle recoveries. Salvo and LASSCO do not take part in recoveries. If items in a Salvo theft alert are recovered we ask the owner to inform Salvo or LASSCO so that the theft alert can be cancelled.
Salvo London Helpline 020 7749 9948
The link below is to a web page where it is possible for London victims to fill in a theft alert form online. This can be used by dealers, the police or anyone else on the victims behalf, provided all the information is known. This information will not appear immediately on the internet, but will be intercepted by LASSCO's staff who will raise a theft alert.
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SALVO FAIR 2004
Salvo Fair 2004 programme (pdf file)
Contents include: The Salvo List of 275 hand hints for happier hunting, Salvo Fair scrapbook - a nostalgic look back at Salvo fairs from 1997 to 2003, Salvo Fair 2004 Exhibitor List (correct at 26 May 2004), the Salvo Code dealer list, classified and display ads.
Download the colour version in Acrobat pdf format (link below). The colour printed version was mailed to SalvoNEWS and SALVO mag paper subscribers on Mon 14 June.
NOTE: Since going to press Neville Griffiths of Rococo has announced that unfortunately he will be unable able to bring the Victorian conservatory to Knebworth.
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AUCTIONS IN NORFOLK AND MIDDLESEX
THE catalogues for the Gaze 'Prestige Architectural' auction at Diss, Norfolk on Saturday 12 June, and the no reserve 3,000 lots sale at Architectural Reclaim in Enfield, Middlesex on Friday 11 and Saturday 12 June are now available (see links below)
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15 JUN 2004: WIGAN TENDER SALE
Tender sale of architectural salvage stock, garden ornaments, fireplaces and surrounds.
To include: 10no original red telephone boxes, 50no cast iron lamp posts and tops, 100no 9ft by 4ft by 6ft ornate school railings, cast iron columns, post and gates, 200 tonnes 4ins by 4ins granite sets, 200 tonnes random granite cobbles, 500 lin ft 14ins by 9ins pink stone coping, 1000 lin ft stone and granite curbs.
3000 sq yds oak, pine and maple flooring, 200no pine and oak doors, oak and pine beams and trusses.
20no stone troughs, 100no chimney pots, 20no belfast sinks, 300no full & half whisky barrels.
50no cast iron fireplaces & timber surrounds.
At: Bambers Quay, Anderton Street, Higher Ince, Wigan, Lancashire WN2 2BG
On View: Mon 7 June - Sat 12 June 2004, 10am - 4pm each day.
Tenders to be submitted to Wignall Brownlow by first post Tuesday 15th June 2004.
Wignall Brownlow, Suite 110 Ducie House, 37 Ducie Street, Manchester M1 2JW
Tel: 0161 236 9933, Fax: 0161 236 6699
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UPTON WOOD AT NEC BBC HOMES SHOW
UPTON Original Wood Co have samples of flooring available, machined to your spec and ready to lay. Visit us at BBC Good Homes Show 20-23 May 04 at the NEC Birmingham
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 JUNE 11-12 ARCHITECTURAL RECLAIM AUCTION
GIANT RELOCATION AUCTION: The Architectural Reclaim Centre is moving. Tel 020 8367 1666.
AT: Reclaim the Garden, Theobalds Park Road, Enfield, Middlesex EN2 9BG.
ON: FRI 11th JUNE & SAT 12th June 2004.
NO RESERVES.
TO INCLUDE: Yorkstone Flagstones, Sanitaryware, Marble Wooden & Cast Iron Fireplaces, Architectural Features, Taps, Roof Tiles & Slates, Door furniture, Paving, Doors, Stained Glass, Staddle Stones, Reclaimed Bricks, Cast & Wrought Iron Gates, Butler Sinks, Cobblestones, Granite Setts, Miscellaneous Building Materials PLUS much, much more.
Full Sale Catalogue and Terms of Sale available from the Auctioneers Web Site - look under Special Auctions from 7th June - at www.wellers-auctions.co.uk or Telephone the Office on 01932 568678
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![Larger image [courtesy Norfolk Magazine]](http://www.salvo.co.uk/images/userimgs/1/11159_1_240.jpg "Larger image [courtesy Norfolk Magazine]") TRUDIE COSTER DIES AT HOME
TRUDIE Coster died at home on the 1st April 2004, aged 52. She was Sam Coster's much-loved partner in life, and in their business at Mongers in Hingham, Norfolk, which they started together six years ago.
Trudie was friendly, witty, colourful and outgoing. Prior to moving to Norfolk she worked as a cloth agent in London. A magazine quoted Trudie as saying, 'Young handsome boys do the lifting - to which my manicured fingers bear witness'. Aside from the aesthetic qualities of old architectural pieces, she was a staunch salvageur from a practical point of view. 'We make compost and recycle wine bottles but the emphasis put on recycling is misplaced; it is better to reuse than recycle. If we were recycling we would be get an EU grant, but as dealers in salvage encouraging reuse we are viewed with suspicion and assumed to be conmen!'
Trudie was a kindred spirit amongst whose friends in the trade was the late Hazel Matravers. The last time I saw her was at H's funeral. One of my children commented, 'If there is a heaven, Trudie and Hazel will be up there drinking a glass of red wine in a sunny garden somewhere.' Be strong Sam. [TK]
The funeral will be held on Wednesday 14th March 2004 at 2.30pm at St Andrews Church, Hingham.
Cheques made payable to 'W C Littleproud Donations Account' sent to W C Littleproud & Son, Hale Road, Bradenham IP25 7RA, Norfolk, will go to the Cancer Ward at Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, and Macmillan Nurses.
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 LUCINDA LAMBTON OPENS BROOKING MUSEUM
On a pleasant summer's afternoon in a leafy 1950s housing estate in Cranleigh, as spitfires lazily crashed around the fluffy white clouds, the luminaries of the respectable side of salvage gathered in a large marquee to pay homage to Mr. Respectable Salvage himself, Charles Brooking, the man whose life's work has been collecting salvage, not for sale and reuse, but for giving joy and education to the masses.
After a fine lunch Sir William McAlpine, the chairman of the trustees of the Brooking Collection, opened the proceedings, after which Dr Alan Powers, secretary of the 20th Century Society and now at Greenwich University, gave a speech on the university's behalf. Eventually Lucinda Lambton declared the Charles Brooking Home Study Collection officially open, and Charles presented her with a bouquet of flowers strapped to one of the folding seat tops recently rescued from Wembley Stadium, resulting in her warm appreciation.
Charles, now 50, began collecting fossils in 1962 followed by rescued salvage from demolition sites around Guildford. 'I would get the my parents' au pair to accompany me and make an approach to the demolition men if there was anything I wanted. It usually did the trick,' he said. He left school, pretty well uneducated in a conventional sense, and worked at Sotheby's Belgravia as a porter. As a dyslexic he finds accuracy in writing letters and numbers problematic. 'I used to arrange the lots in the wrong order,' he said, 'so after nine months I got the sack.' He did not get his driving licence until he was 35, so he used to cart most of the stuff home on public transport. This obviously favoured small and interesting collecting. He now has 30,000 different sash window pulleys and can date windows by their hardware. He has advised Downing Street and the National Trust on windows. In 1997 Prince Charles presented Mr. Brooking with a cheque for £5,000 in recognition of services to Britain's national heritage. Until recently Charles had sheds at his Mum's house in Guildford full of windows, but luckily he managed to persuade the likes of McAlpine and Cruickshank to set up a trust, and help the rehousing of the collection in a Dartford backwater of Greenwich University. The Uni has now acquired the old Wren naval college at Greenwich where it is proposed to relocate some of the Collection future, while the rest is in the Siemens building in Greenwich by the Cutty Sark. A small proportion, of which the study collection forms part, is in sheds behind Brooking's house in Cranleigh. The future looks rosier than ever.
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A LETTER FROM AN OLD PLUMBER TO THE IP
Open letter from Colin Elderfield to the Institute of Plumbers
4th April 2003
SIR,- I have been in the Plumbing Industry for many years, starting in 1959 as an apprentice to a building company. In those days our work covered all aspects of plumbing from below ground to above ground, drainage, roofing in lead, copper, zinc and hot and cold heating and domestic water systems. All of these things were expected of us and with day release (unpaid after 18 years old) and night school four or five nights a week was common to all plumbing students in my year. I represented my colleagues on various occasions in competitions at Olympia. By the time I was 21 years old, City & Guilds (Craft Certificate) from intermediate to final had been passed with first class passes including the Surrey Registered Plumbers Silver Medal for outstanding work in 1963. I went on to work within the industry, later having my own business for many years working on a multitude of jobs in plumbing, heating and leadwork.
I state the above not to bolster my own esteem, but to show what it was like to be called a Plumber and carry out plumbing works, working with hands and brain combined.
Today, it is very different, almost appalling in some circumstances, most people of my age and acquaintances have left the industry either through age or just demoralised by the present climate of anything goes, if it is not in a plastic wrapping from local DIY stores - then forget it! Larger than 22cm - 'not available mate'. Before anyone tells me this is not the case, I know that there are many very experienced tradesmen and women out there carrying out superb work. Unfortunately, they are in the minority and are decreasing daily.
Do not talk to me of training; there is not any of any consequence. I speak here of years of learning, not days or weeks, anyone who believes that plumbing competence can be achieved in the short term is a fool, with their heads in the clouds to put it, politely and mildly.
There is no urgency to improve the industry within the industry; people have become used to shoddy and poor standard work, as a norm. I meet customers every day of the week from all over the country that talk of plumbing, sub-standard work would not be believed. Price does not come into it, low price, high price; it is all the same to people who carry out sub-standard works. TV 'from Hell' programmes are for entertainment but are so close to reality regarding plumbing.
The plumbing industry should stand up to the rest of Europe regarding water regulations. What absolute rubbish is spoken by the people advising the industry. Great Britain, who gave the world modern plumbing as far back as late Victorian times, is derided for its knowledge and skills. Water wastage, continued to use some of the current equipment and you will soon know about wastage! The drop valve system, discontinued early in the twentieth century, has returned in plastic! The early brass ones of which I have samples and (still used in the USA) at least were of solid construction, and worked well enough at the time. Then along came the 'WWP' perfected through years of research by many, such as Thomas Crapper and George Jennings. These men, not only plumbers, but innovators, also tried, failed, tried again, and again eventually achieved a product unsurpassed, until now apparently? Is all this to be disregarded as meaningless and old hat. It is not 'the new order of things'. Therefore rubbish it.
Plumbing in trade magazines appears to consist of heating boilers, pumps, many articles on water regulations etc, where are the scribes who understand plumbing? 'The Real Plumbing Business' - some years ago there were 'Heating and Ventilation Engineers' and there were 'Plumbers' - the two working along side each other to complete a contract. Heating Engineers were supplied with most of their tools, Plumbers supplied their own and carried out all aspects of the plumbing trade. Now we have a situation of blurred aspects and a mish mash of mediocre people purporting to be both parties.
We must put our own house in order from within, with leaders who served their time and got their hands dirty and bloody over many years of hands-on experience, not a body of pen-pushers and jobs-worths who are afraid to speak out against a never ending tide of relentless death-of-a-thousand-cuts officials who will destroy completely our once proud Plumbing Industry and Tradition.
At this stage you may well ask yourself, 'what has he achieved, with all his talk? Why is he not out there protesting?' I, like most of my contemporaries, had and still have a work ethic; you get up in the morning and go to work, 'no work, no money', there are no handouts for the self-employed, you rise or fall by your own actions and in some instances fall by the actions of others. Your duty firstly is to your family to do your best for them, there is little time for protesting, you keep your head down and plod on, relentlessly, it is hard, very hard at times, but in the end through good and bad days we win through, it is called 'survival'.
Now at my age frankly I don't care any more. I will if required tread on toes, be very controversial and hope to attract constructive criticism. Maybe this way there is a glimmer of hope for the industry I entered all those years ago, with so much enthusiasm.
Yours sincerely
Colin Elderfield
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 HAZEL MATRAVERS DIES
The funeral of Hazel Matravers, founder of Salvo in 1990, who died at home on 26th December 2002 of cancer and MS, after a brave cheerful fight of over a year, will take place at 12.45pm on Friday 3rd January 2003 at the United Reformed Church, Cheviot Street, WOOLER, Northumberland.
No flowers please, but instead please consider a small donation to MEDECIN SANS FRONTIERES, a charity liked by Hazel which sends medical help to the world's trouble spots. Please send a cheque made payable to 'Medecin Sans Frontieres' together with a note saying 'In memory of Hazel Matravers' to MEDECIN SANS FRONTIERES, 67-74 Saffron Hill, LONDON EC1N 8QX. Thankyou very much.
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To those who did not know her, Hazel was a friendly caring helpful person, who was always cheerful and continued to work for Salvo for most of this year despite her illness; to those who knew her but did not know of her illness, we apologise but felt uncomfortable about broadcasting the fact of her illness ahead of her death. If asked, we would say that Hazel was fine, by which we meant she was coping fine. It would have been very much harder to keep things going if every other phone call for the past twelve months had been about how Hazel was doing.
All are welcome to attend the funeral, but for those unable to make it please do not feel that you are in any way letting her down. We know that many people in Britain and abroad will be thinking of her, her two children and those close to her at this time by whom she will be greatly missed forever. Memento mori.
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REG SPIVEY DIES
Reg Spivey, a demolition contractor and dealer in reclaimed materials in Bradford, has died. He started his business in 1966, and was a founder member of the Register of Demolition and Dismantling, a rival and less institutionalised alternative to the more establishment National.Federation of Demolition Contractors. He was a Salvo supporter, and became the first dealer to have a photo ad, of the lifesize bronze head of a gorilla, which he felt at the time may have had something to do with the filming of King Kong. Robert Grimmond of Woodlands Farm Nursery and Reclamation in Surrey was one of the many old school dealers with whom Reg had a working relationship. Robert said, 'He was a good chum, a very nice man to deal with, honourable, reliable, a professional dismantler who will be missed by those who knew him.' He leaves a wife and son.
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ROBERT AAGARD AND CATHEDRAL CAMPS
Robert Aagaard, dealer in antique chimneypieces and maker of reproductions, in North Yorkshire, died in April this year. Of Danish parents, Robert Aagaard moved from Woolworths, where his father had worked his way up to director, to work with English furniture specialists like Bruce George in the Cotswolds and Reg and Frank Lumb in Harrogate, opening his own antique showroom in Harrogate in the 1960's and establishing a workshop making reproduction fireplaces and period decorations in Knaresborough, eventually employing a staff of thirty, which was sold in the 1990's and continues to trade under the Aagaard name. He became a consultant to Harewood House, the Landmark Trust and National Trust, he was a magistrate and a churchwarden, and secretary of Harrogate Antiques Fair.<br><br>During the 1970's Robert Aagaard began discussions that were to lead to his founding, with Fiona Aagaard, his wife, as treasurer, Cathedral Camps - to organise teams of young people and students to tackle cleaning and maintenance in cathedrals, eventually in every cathedral in England save one, and raising £100,000 a year for the project. He and his wife were on the road every summer visiting camps undertaking work like vacuum-cleaning medieval timbers, painting, removing rubbish from roof voids and so on. The Church recognised Aagard's work and faith by electing him to the General Synod in 1995 and appointing him to the Cathedrals Commission and other advisory bodies. He was appointed OBE in 1993.
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