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CARL WILLOWS SAYS SALVO FAIR WAS AN ABSOLUTE CRACKER
Carl Willows of T W Gaze & Sons auctioneers, long time sponsor of Salvo Fair, said, "This year's fair was an absolute cracker. Very positive. We picked up new sellers, and we picked up new buyers too. The fact that we have a presence at the fair is invaluable, not only for the architectural salvage and bygones sales we run, but we also gave away property brochures for estate agency division, and we may even have possibly sold a house as a result too!"
The architectural salvage sale at Diss, held on the Saturday after the fair, went well with a good mix of trade and private present. Paul Johnson of Ribble Reclamation was buying keenly and he was also being filmed by a TV crew.
The Bygones sale tomorrow has a thousand lots, including a number of enamel signs, tools, traps and even a rustic corn chandler's bin. Top lot is a tobacconists shop cabinet at £800.
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WASHDOWN CHALLENGE BY CRAPPER ENTHUSIAST
A loo devotee has started a challenge to see which is the best toilet pan.
'This is the washdown pan challenge, anyone with a washdown toilet can enter, high/low level or close coupled. This is a challenge of the best pan, not cistern or pressure, so use as much water as you can!
The rules/challenges are as follows:
Bowl rinse challenge must be done last to prevent the foam disturbing the performance of the toilet.
#1 AIR VESSELS: Take one sheet of A4 paper, divide it into quarters, scrunch them up so they float as seen in this video, you should have four and they MUST float. Flush a maximum of THREE times or less.
#2 100 sheets: Simply take 100 sheets of two ply (Or three if you wish, four ply but these may block the toilet) and tear them up etc, put them into the pan and add ONE PINT of clear water, flush once.
#3 The bowl rinse: Take a relatively thin liquid toilet cleaner, Duck works best for this challenge. Spread it all over the bowl above the waterline, add ground black pepper/cinammon/coffee to this, then take shredded toilet tissue, and add this one top! Flush once. (Please don't use bleach, we can't see it!)
The toilet which clears the most on each challenge wins that section, the toilet with the most wins will win the competition.
I have entered my Thomas Crapper toilet, with Japkap high cistern! (Approx 2 gallons/10 litres a flush) The air vessels needed two flushes, but three went down on the first, not bad..
The 100 sheets went straight down, almost blocked it but it got past in the end!
Bowl rinse worked excellently, sturggled at the back until the end, but it got everything.
It's going to be a tough one, but who will win?
If you'd like to join in, message me and post your video!'
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 CUTTING THROUGH THE RED TAPE
A website has been launched by the government to help cut down on the amount of bureaucracy that has to be undertaken when regulations are trying to be met. The idea is those going through the regulation process make comments on the website. This will feed the government with ideas on how to reduce red tape making it easier for businesses and individuals to comply with regulations, and in turn help boost the economy and society at large.
The Red Tape Challenge website says 'To do that, we need your help. You have to deal with these rules day-in, day-out. This website is for you to tell us which regulations are working and which are not; what should be scrapped, what should be saved and what should be simplified.'
There is a section on the environment, where comments can be made on regulations about waste. And another section on health and safety in the workplace.
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 REFLECTIONS OF AN ANTI-ILLEGAL LOGGING CAMPAIGNER
On the Environmental Investigation Agency's weekly blog, Faith Doherty writes about her ten years of experience dealing with Brussels over illegal logging, and how far things have come since the early days.
'...Then it was my turn. EIA have been in Brussels finalising the VPA between Indonesia & the EU "Europe has made a lot of money from illegal logging and the illegal trade in timber for so long now that it's become the norm." I said. "Traders and importers know who the bad guys are. Our desire for cheap tropical timber means that we're fuelling corruption, ensuring the middle men make all the money and there's no chance for anyone wanting to work legally, let alone sustainably. It's ensuring that those who do the right thing are unable to work with a level playing field and only those who have connections are able to make real profits. Producer countries are losing millions in lost state revenue and we're creating a new breed of timber barons. Let me tell you how this works in the case of Indonesia."
"Excuse me, but this is not on the agenda," said a grey suit.
"Really? I am going to continue because it should be on your agenda."
And I did. Our main objective in Europe was to have a law that would make it an offence to supply and sell illegally sourced timber. With illegal logging rampant in Indonesia at that time, the EU needed to take some responsibility. It sounded so simple...'
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MASCO WALCOT TO HOLD A SEPTEMBER SALE
A blog post by mascosalvage this week announced the sale on 24th September of stock, which has come about as a result of Masco Walcot's financing and banking arrangements coupled with undercapitalisation and the recession in the construction sector.
The blog comments that weekly sales had collapsed and, 'a detached view would point out that huge stockholding operations in a recession, without capitalisation cover to ride out the trough of inactivity, means inevitable cashflow problems . . . The present position is that MascoWalcot is to sell the freehold of its property and hold a disposal sale on September 24th of its high-end goods . . . If you fancy running a salvage business you could always buy the business as a going concern.'
Meanwhile, despite the upheavals, Debbie Kedge reports that for Masco Salvage it is currently business as usual.
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 TREASURES OF HEAVEN AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM
A reliquary houses body parts of a Saint and is normally shrine shaped, unless it is a 'speaking reliquary' which is the shape of a body part but not necessarily that part of the body which the shape represents. Relics were important in the medieval Catholic church, and still are even now, which can be witnessed by the 100,000 devotees who prayed to the travelling relics of Saint Therese of Lisieux whose thigh bone and foot in a jacaranda casket toured twenty-two churches in England in 2009. Pilgrims would visit holy sites, such as the trip Chaucer made to the relics of Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral, because prayers to the saintly relics would ensure that the supplicant would go to heaven in the next life or be healed in this one. Relics would also encourage armies to fight, since the possession of relics would put God on the side of the army which possessed them, as happened when the Earl of Surrey collected Cuthbert's remains on his was to the Battle of Flodden.
Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics, and Devotion in Medieval Europe offers a glimpse of the Middle Ages, a time when art mediated between heaven and earth and wondrous objects filled churches and monastic treasuries. Relics- -the physical remains of holy men and women, and things associated with them- -were especially important to the development of Christianity, which emerged as a powerful new religion in the Late Roman world.
Artists sought to bridge the gap between heaven and earth by fashioning special containers for holy matter. Nested within these special vessels, relics connected Christian faithful with sacred places and people who died as the martyrs of faith. Often covered in precious metals and encrusted with gems, these containers commanded attention.
The exhibition Treasures of Heaven explores how medieval artists expressed the sacred power of fragmented remains and considers the role that relics played in the development of the visual arts. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Walters Art Museum, and the British Museum, London co-organized this exhibition of 135 extraordinary works of late antique, Byzantine, and Western medieval art, including precious metalwork objects, paintings, sculptures, and illuminated manuscripts, drawn from public and private collections as well as church treasuries across the United States and Europe. Several of these spectacular works have never been seen outside their home countries.
Until 9 October 2011 at the British Museum.
On the religious theme, but less plastic, is the new exhibition at London's National Gallery, Devotion by Design, Italian Altarpieces Before 1500, which is on until 2 October.
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 UKAA SHIPS FIFTEEN LAMPOSTS TO AUSTRALIA
A set of fifteen cast iron lamposts, bought through the trade, are making their way from Staffordshire, England to Tazmania, Australia. UK Architectural Antiques sold the lamposts to a lady who is going to use them for a large residential driveway.
Viv from UKAA said "We had to scrape of every bit of mud from the bottom of each lampost, and prime the ends. Then we had bespoke pallets made from timber that had to be ISPM 15 compliant. This means the timber is treated to prevent the spread of disease and insects between countries that could negatively affect plants or ecosystems. We are using Solo Freight, and the shipping time to Melbourne Port, Australia is from 28th June to 10th August, about six weeks."
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DOGS OF SALVO FAIR 2011
Six minutes seventeen seconds of dogs at the 2011 Salvo UK Fair. Quite a few pugs, no alsatians, these are simply the dogs that visited our stand. Every year we do this trade fair at Knebworth in England. A lot of people come to visit and so do their dogs. To pass the time , as one can only get so excited selling pews, I compiled a collection of dogs. This exciting YouTube slide show, complete with music (my children's reaction: "It's over six minutes long! Two minutes would be pushing it!").
Ah, but where else can you hear the best song ever written about a ghost dog? (Old Tige, by Jim Reeves in case you were wondering) plus a couple of other great dog hits.
Note the black pug towards the end of the programme. This poor animal has had no less than two elderly owners die on him before being rehoused through the Pug Welfare Association. He had to have special counselling so that he wouldn't panic if he saw a person lying down on the ground.
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 THE INTERIOR DESIGN BLOG: CHICKS AND BRICKS
Building Design writer, Diana Yakeley was at this year's annual Happold Medal lecture, a Construction Industry Council event, where the question 'would the construction industry would be a better place if there were more women in it' was raised. She reports on her experiences as a women in the construction industry.
"I have learned that, as a woman in this industry, I need to be "more like a man" to quote Professor Higgins.
It comes as a surprise to some that I can give as good as I get, can throw a builder off site for reeking of alcohol or demand a detail be done again as my drawings show. My snagging prowess is impressive, and I can tell a mechanical engineer, politely, to be more "creative" about those massive grilles.
I have been instrumental in two Forms of Agreement being published by RIBA for my institute, and have co authored the BIID Interior Design Job Book. I try to be rigorous in all I do and keep up with sustainability development and technical innovation, and fulfil my CPD requirements.
But I am still expected to sit meekly by some master of the universe at a dinner and hear that his wife is, like me, "good with cushions and curtains". Actually I'm rubbish at cushions and curtains but I don't want to be confrontational and so move the conversation on..."
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SAVE WINS LANDMARK RULING ON DEMOLITION
SAVE Britain's Heritage has secured a landmark court judgment which gives new protection to buildings threatened with demolition. The ruling means that most forms of demolition previously exempted from planning controls could now need planning permission.
The ruling came after a Court of Appeal hearing in London and marked the end of a long-running and complex legal case. The case, brought by SAVE against the Secretary of State for Communities, was fought by SAVE's superb legal team - Susan Ring of Richard Buxton Solicitors and barristers Richard Harwood and Andrew Deakin of 39 Essex Street.
The case involved the Government's interpretation of a European Directive - Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) - which governs the impacts of building projects on the environment. Up until now the Government had argued that EIA was not required for demolition alone as demolition was not a 'project'. This meant that no planning consent was needed to demolish a building that was not a dwelling, a listed building, or a building in a conservation area.
However, the Court of Appeal ruled to the contrary, saying that demolition could indeed be classed as a project and that it could attract EIA (and would therefore need planning permission). This automatically meant that the directive in UK law which exempts the demolition of certain building types from requiring planning permission became unlawful.
The ruling will have major implications for planning authorities, and will have a particular and immediate impact on proposed demolitions of large areas of terraced housing under the now defunct Housing Market Renewal (Pathfinder) Initiative. SAVE is currently involved in a number of Pathfinder battles, such as the campaign to save the 'Welsh Streets' area of Toxteth, Liverpool, (including Ringo Starr's birthplace) from the bulldozers...
[source: SAVE Britain's Heritage newsletter May 2011. For more see link below.
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NEW JAMAICAN LAW SET OUT TO STOP ARTEFACT THEFT
The Jamaica National Heritage Trust is proposing new legislation to address the illegal trade in stolen objects of historical importance to Jamaica.
The new law aims to trace the movement of artefacts in and out of the country and to make it a requirement for artefacts older than a certain number of years to be registered.
The executive director of JNHT said that significant items were being increasingly being stolen for scrap metal including two pairs of cannons from museums, which may now have been recovered.
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Date Created : 15 Jul 2011 10:44:03
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 WELSH STAINED GLASS WINDOW CATALOGUE
A new online catalogue of 5,000 images of Welsh stained glass windows is being put together by Martin Crampin. Based in Aberystwyth and from the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Mr Crampin gathered a collection of stained glass photos together whilst working on another project.
He said it was important to document the windows and their makers as some windows were prized, some were skipped and some sold as architectural antiques.
The catalogue will be launched at a one day forum at Swansea Metropolitan University.
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 PARQUET FLOORING AT THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, EDINBURGH
There was only one wood flooring company in the picture when refurb works were being carried out by the National Galleries of Scotland.
McKay Flooring were commissioned by BAM Construction to uplift existing herringbone parquet flooring and repair, re-lay and sand and coat with Junckers lacquer. The flooring was a mix of oak parquet, pitch pine and maple parquet battens. We also created access panels within the flooring for IT cables and installed a new solid wood floor in the new cafe area.
Over 2000 m2 of parquet flooring was revamped and refinished. Our full photo album is available on our Facebook page. See the link below for a peek preview video of the National Portrait Gallery on the BBC website.
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 ROBERT MILLS LAUNCHES RETAIL VENTURE AT KILVER COURT
The acclaimed architectural reclamation company and architectural antiques specialist Robert Mills Ltd of Bristol has announced the launch of a retail space at Kilver Court, Shepton Mallet, 'where for the environmentally design conscious there will be a special opportunity to purchase its upcycled furniture'.
Press Release from Watershed PR:
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Grand Sale 23-24 July
A fresh, new experience created by Mulberry founder Roger Saul, Kilver Court launches its fabulous designer shopping emporium with a Grand Sale on 23 and 24 July from 10am to 5pm. Come and enjoy amazing bargains of up to 80% off on men's and women's fashion and accessories. Brands on sale include Myla, Cabbages and Roses, Miller Harris, Made in Heaven Jeans, Toast, Duchamps, Fred Perry and more. The grand sale offers an amazing variety, from fashion to food to horticulture and all round fun for the family. For the environmentally design conscious there will be a special opportunity to purchase upcycled furniture from Robert Mills, the acclaimed architectural reclamation company. For the green-fingered collector there will be quality plants from Pennards Plants and the opportunity to visit the beautiful Kilver Court gardens free of charge. Food lovers can enjoy a pop-up restaurant with Italian maestro Giuseppe Mascoli of Franca Manca in London serving classic Italian dishes with a local Somerset twist, a pop-up Sally Clarke bakery showcasing fresh produce, plus the Sharpham Park Shop. All set within a sustainable development on a regenerated site right on your doorstep in Shepton Mallet. Kilver Court is already known for its gorgeous secret garden, wellness centre and the Sharpham Park Farm Shop and the designer emporium adds an exciting new element. Definitely the hot tip of the summer - come to the launch sale and be one of the first 'in the know' about this chic and friendly shopping outlet.
History of Kilver Court
Kilver Court is in the heart of Somerset, nestling on the edge of the historic town of Shepton Mallet. Once the site of the biggest woollen mill in the area, the last 100 years have seen its use change from lace and machine manufacture to drinks production and finally designer fashion. Shepton Mallet has been a cross roads for commerce for centuries, starting with the Roman Fosseway passing through. Its early history, as its name suggests. was based on sheep and the wool trade. By 1500 a thriving textile industry had grown up and Kilver Court was at its centre. However this wealth floundered in the Industrial Revolution of the early 1800s as the Luddites torched mills throughout the valley. In the mid 19th Century Ernest Jardine, a successful lace and silk maker from Nottingham, bought the site and set out to restore production. He also created the Gardens as a recreational space for his factory workers, the old millpond became an ornamental lake with wildfowl and even a small rowing boat for their use. They were known as Jardine's Park and Vegetable Gardens. By 1907, 128 people were employed producing lace-making machinery. The Showering family have made cider in Shepton Mallet for over 200 years, and set up their first brewery behind the former Ship Inn, which sits at the front of the current Kilver Court site. In 1947 they produced the iconic champagne perry known as Babycham, which became a huge success. In 1960 the gardens were re-landscaped based on the Chelsea Flower Show gold medal winning design of George Whiteleg. Showerings' success took them to great heights in the drinks industry; eventually Kilver Court became the headquarters of Allied Domecq, one of the biggest companies in the UK drinks industry. Part of the original brewery in Kilver Street opposite still remains and is today a thriving cider making business, 'The Somerset Cider Company', owned by Magners. In 1996, Roger Saul was looking for a new home for Mulberry, which had outgrown its factory offices in nearby Chilcompton. He acquired Kilver Court and it became the home for Mulberry and its world famous factory shop. Roger once again redesigned the garden adding his own touch, but still retaining the patina of the past. Kilver Court gardens are framed by the breathtaking sculpture of The Charlton Viaduct, built in 1874 to take the Somerset and Dorset Railway across the valley. The 'S&D' or 'slow and dirty' as it was affectionately known was eventually closed by Dr Beeching in 1966. Today it still towers over the garden, the largest national Grade II listed monument viaduct in Britain.
Roger Saul
Roger has a track record for creating brands and building businesses from scratch to million pound turnover. He founded the British designer brand Mulberry in 1971 and took it to international brand status with sales of over£30m. He acquired the Kilver Court site in 1996 as the headquarters of Mulberry and its factory shop. In 1996 he bought Charlton House Hotel and created the first designer brand hotel and spa, achieving a Michelin star in its first year. In 2007 he started the Sharpham Park food spelt brand, now one of the leading organic food companies selling to Waitrose and stores nationally.
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 DISPLAYS AT SALVO FAIR RECLAIMED STONE PARK, AND A CHAT WITH ALLAN POGSON
There were impressive stone displays by Abacus Stone and Original Stone Paving, both of Yorkshire, and Steptoe's Yard of Lancashire, in the new Reclaimed Stone Park at Salvo Fair 2011.
Steptoe's stand had sections of built-up walling, a fine display of setts laid during the fair, feature stone and a range of architectural salvage. Abacus brought a finished section of wall showing four different stone samples with setts which had been pre-built on a roll-off flatbed pallet, as well as carved Victorian architectural stone window surrounds and items of salvage and statuary. The flatbed pallet is ideal for a display at the Salvo Fair because the display can be pre-built and then dropped at the fair to near-pedestrian level. Abacus intends to keep the display for use at fairs which it might attend in future.
Stephen 'Cookie' Cooke of Original Stone Paving demonstrated sett-laying using the traditional fan-laid setts as well as the increasingly popular interlocked bogens - both of which come from continental Europe.
Allan Pogson, boss of Abacus Stone, talked about the reclaimed stone trade. He said that he could not supply thousands of tonnes of batches of specific varieties of reclaimed stone because it was not available in his region in very large quantities. In his experience demolition contractors in his region were not crushing stone from demolitions because reclaimed stone was simply too valuable.
He started dealing in reclaiming walling stone, setts and flagstones a few years ago, having expanded from architectural salvage and antique fireplaces, and soon discovered that reclaimed walling stone needs to be processed so that it is more easily marketable. Abacus Stone does this by backing the stone off to 4.5ins-5ins thickness and sorting it into courses which it supplies as 'Secondary Face' stone.
Abacus now does fifty per cent of its turnover in reclaimed stone, and has bought around 2,000 tonnes this year, and has 10,000 tonnes in stock. Its punched face stone is sought after for projects in the Peak National Park. Mr. Pogson says that the stone sells as fast as it is processed, and one problem in the supply chain he has is in finding stone dressers to sort and cut. Everything has to be properly prepared, he says, and the days of the salvage junkyard are long gone.
Incidentally, Abacus Stone is situated in an old quarry in Holmfirth, home of the BBC series 'Last Of The Summer Wine'.
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 LETTER: SEEKING BIRSTALL CHURCH MEMORIAL STAINED GLASS WINDOW
Tony Dunlop
26 May 2011
Your name and website details were passed to me by Charles Tolley, MD of Andy Thornton of Elland, near Halifax. I had contacted that company as part of a research project I am undertaking. He wasn't able to help me but thought your organisation might have some pointers that would lead me to resolving a problem that I have encountered.
I should say up-front that I am retired and have, rather embarrassingly, been recently referred to as a Local Historian. Amateur at best I think and with a very small 'a'. However the important point is that I do my work for no fees or financial gain of any sort. My output is given to local concerns and the local libraries.
I'm currently researching the lives of those soldiers from WWI listed as casualties on the Birstall War Memorial. Additionally I am preparing a 'Book of Remembrance' for each Church in Birstall that still has a congregation that meets. Many of the names on the individual Church Roll of Honour appear on the town's Memorial. l3ut in total I am seeking out information on 195 soldiers just from this small town. I've enclosed an example of the presentation of a soldier's details and that will be replicated for all 195 names.
One of the Churches is Birstall Methodist Church (formally Birstall Wesleyans and Birstall St John's Chapel) and this letter is directly related to my research there. During my search of the Batley and Birstall Newspaper I came across a report of the unveiling of a stained glass
window to commemorate the WWI casualties from the Methodist Church.
Little was known of the window by the current members of the Church but I was lucky to find a print of the window in the National Archives in Wakefield. The copy of my letter to same local paper fully sets out what I found in the records. Suffice to say that no further information has been forthcoming.
Having approached Charles Tolley, whilst he wasn't able to directly help my search he gave me some background information and made me aware of your work and your website. I release it is still a long shot but I would be obliged if you were able to help progress my work. There is no anticipation or expectation of getting the window back. Knowledge of where it is and a photograph of it in its glorious colour would help us close the matter.
Thank you for your time in reading this and for any further help you might
be able to give.
Tony Dunlop
atnc.dunlop @ hotmail dot co uk
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 TWO BLOGGERS REPORT ON SALVO FAIR 2011
With a great selection of photos and honest comments, Blooming Felt and Mary Middleton Design have written about Salvo Fair on their blogs:
"Yep - it IS that time of year again. This weekend is the the annual SALVO fair. Anyone who has been following this blog since last year (thanks for sticking with me!) will know that I attended the SALVO Fair at Knebworth House last year and came home with a cast iron roll top bath.
Today, I managed to spend slightly less (hubby is breathing a HUGE sigh of relief) and was very restrained in my purchasing !
Fortunately, the rain held off all day and the sun made a very welcome appearance after lunch. There was a huge array of exhibitors (I think more than last year) all selling a fantastic selection of reclaimed pieces. From reclaimed stone walling, phoneboxes, pillar boxes, radiators (I have my eye on some), an old movie camera..."
and from Mary Middleton:
"Arriving early on the trade day I set off in search of treasure. If you were in need of authentic architectural doors, fireplaces, bricks, tiles, French bistro furniture, church pews and original Victorian flooring the Salvo Fair was the place to be.
Architectural salvage isn't just for experts and is enjoying a new popularity boosted by the recession-induced mentality of 'make do and mend'. It's also a well-known lament that so many period properties have had their charm and character stripped out and using architectural salvage can help bring them back to their glory days.
There were so many great items/ pieces on Friday that I wanted to have a huge (££££) spend up - I just wish I had the space to house the amount of lovely things I found. AND that is a common pitfall. It can be quite easy to get carried away when out looking for architectural salvage - so it's really important to have a plan before setting out.
Having attended Salvage fairs before and through my trawl of salvage yards I know the things I am looking out for - for both current and future interiors projects. I am also always on the lookout for my own personal statement find - the perfect pair of gothic doors or the perfect folly for the end of the garden..."
Read more on their blogs - see links below.
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 WELLERS COMMIT TO SALVO FAIR 2012 AND DONATE £600 TO MSF
Wellers Auctioneers have generously donated £600 to Medecins Sans Frontieres which represents all the Salvo Fair auction's buyer's premium plus a personal donation from Chris Sykes, Weller's managing director.
The hammer total for the Salvo Fair sale was £5,659 with the top lot being the finials of Cox's Yard which made £3,800 and sold to a private who had visited the fair on Friday and bid over the phone on Saturday.
Apart from Glen Snelgar's sterling efforts on the rostrum, Wellers were also substantial sponsors of Salvo Fair 2012 in order to increase their profile with the salvage trade and attract more auction business. Salvo Fair would also benefit from future referrals which came about as a result of Wellers presence at the fair (so please consider using Wellers if you are thinking of holding an auction this year or next year - ed).
"Regarding the future Glen and the team view the whole exercise as a great success," Chris Sykes said, "and we will certainly wish to repeat it next year albeit with some tweaking. The auction received good support from a core group of traders and we hope that next year the support will grow to include a number of others who may have been undecided as to whether or not to commit lots in what was in this first year a bit of an experiment."
[This means that the total raised for Medecins Sans Frontieres by Salvo Fair 2012 was £1,066 - ed]
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 WELLERS HARD WORK PAYS OFF AT SUCCESSFUL ALSCOT BATHROOM RELOCATION SALE
Norman Cockroft of Alscot Bathroom Company was very pleased with the relocation auction held by Wellers Auctioneers at his Solihull premises on Saturday 2 July 2011.
"It went really well, we had quite a few viewing and leaving bids on Thursday and Friday," he said afterwards. "Wellers worked hard promoting the auction at Salvo Fair and that made a huge difference. The timing was perfect. It was a genuine relocation auction as I have to downsize from two units to one, here at Oak Farm. And although our main business is onsite bath restoration and finishing, I am not giving up dealing in antique bathrooms."
The auction was online, which is now standard practice for Wellers, and had a smattering of trade buyers, as well as interested privates. Pete Watson of Cox's Yard left commission bids, and Simon Kirby of Thomas Crapper, Sam Coster of Mongers and Rupert Woods of Leominster Rec were all bidding in the room.
Simon Kirby commented that there were relatively few present during the sale, but
bidding was brisk on the telephones and via the internet. Wellers did a
most professional job of it.
Mr Cockroft said that Alscot has just completed successful and prestigious bathroom restorations at the Cunard building in Liverpool, and at the United Grand Lodge headquarters in London.
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 STARTING UP A COMMUNITY BUILDING MATERIAL REUSE CENTRE, ONE DAY COURSE
We still have places for this event, which aims to bring together entrepreneurs to discuss and explore opportunities to set up new reuse enterprises, including a focus on reusing surplus building material in the UK. It will be of interest to existing businesses wanting to set up an enterprise in the area of reuse, or entrepreneurs looking to start-up. There are good examples of 'scaling up reuse' and starting new reuse enterprises in the UK - which will be the focus of the event.
Workshop: Starting Up a Community Reuse and Resource Centre
"Making Ourselves Unstoppable: Overcoming the Challenges"
10 - 4pm, 13th July, 2011 Bricks and Bread, Aldershot
This one-day interactive workshop is for community activists and entrepreneurs starting-up a Community Reuse and Resource Centre. The day is designed to give you expert practical advice and the chance to work through the issues you face with people who've done it before. The morning will start with a tour of a working example - the Bricks and Bread Sustainable Living Centre with founder Trudy Thompson. This will be followed by a workshop on the challenges in reuse, repair, remanufacture and retraining with Kelvin Hughes who set up the Newbury Community Resource Centre. In the afternoon there will be question and answer sessions on the issues you face such as making reuse pay its way, choosing the right business structure, getting the logistics right and partnering with local authorities. We'll be running "surgery" sessions with advisors on hand to answer your individual questions with tailored advice. So you'll leave with answers to the issues you face in setting up your social enterprise and a clear idea of next steps. You'll also able to build your own support network, link into the community resource networks FRN & LCRN and gain an understanding of the social franchise opportunities with Bricks and Bread.
Cost: £5 to cover lunch and tea & coffee, please pay at the door.
Please find more event details below and register if you wish to attend.
Tel Jonathan dot Essex @ BioRegional dot com, 0208 404 4249.
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 RESTORATION HOME
Episode 1 of the new BBC2 six part series, Restoration Home, aired on Wednesday, and proved to be another damp squib in their education slot. The programme mimicked Grand Design's incredulity and people watching, and sadly provided about the same level of technical interest, but added irritating Harry Potter-ish production techniques with animated graphics and a pair of obligatory young fogeyish experts one of which was Kieran Long, architecture critic of the Evening Standard.
An interesting piece was the discovery by Kieran Long of the plans for the 1860 rebuild at the Somerset archives with a specification that required the reuse of some of the earlier 14thC stonework from an arcade into the church's Victorian rebuild.
The people or cast all seemed on the ball, and small parts of it were enetertaining, but I think they and we were once again dumbed down by the production team. Or maybe these days production teams choose stories and people that are already dumbed down so they cannot be accused of dumbing them down. Endemol's Remarkable Television made the series, which was directed by Joff Wilson of Animal Park at Longleat House with Ben Fogle and Kate Humble.
Tom Sutcliffe of The Independent wrote: 'In Restoration Home, BBC2 has taken a neglected property that might otherwise fall into dereliction and converted it for a new use. To be specific, it has taken The Restoration Man, an almost identical blend of architectural history and building makeover that Channel 4 ran last year, and modestly rejigged it so that Caroline Quentin can move in instead. Quentin actually has some real experience to bring to bear here, being something of a serial fixer-upper herself. But not much of it was deployed in this first episode, in which a young couple set about converting a Somerset church into a home. Quentin turned up to yodel cheerily at the converters from time to time, and channelled Kevin McCloud's speech rhythms to inject some spurious tension ("If Paul and Laura don't succeed we may lose another of our precious buildings for ever"). Apart from that it was left mostly to an owlish architecture enthusiast and an over-excitable archivist, who dug up historical facts about the money-pit in question. Greatest pleasure here was Paul, a resiliently cheerful type who appeared to have taught himself every skill necessary to convert a Grade II-listed church (barring stained-glass restoration) and who blithely brushed aside anxieties about flooding (the 1968 high-water mark plaque being fixed worryingly high on one of his interior walls) and his partner's tendency to turn up just as the concrete or the glue had set and point out the flaw he'd missed. Paul's optimism and good humour richly deserved success, and, one hopes, a sustained period without unusually heavy rainfall.'
Matt Baylis, The Express, wrote: 'Before watching this programme I thought it would be quite groovy to do up an old ruin and live in it. After watching it, I'd go for the flat in Bristol.'
Moregeous, Making Property More Than Gorgeous without breaking the bank, wrote: 'Tuned into BBC2′s new property proffering last night - Restoration Home, presented by well known bricks & mortar expert Caroline Quentin. Ahem. I'd wanted something to cheer me up after seeing the very depressing Dispatches Landlords From Hell, but sure as eggs are eggs, I just ended up wanting to throw something at the screen. I so wanted a beautiful but unloved building, enthusiastic but foolhardy contributors, knowledgeable & likeable experts, lots of facts and no silly stuff. I was really disappointed to spend an hour watching a programme with the word restoration in the title but which showed precious little restoring. Quentin came across as a lovely lady with lots of energy for the subject but they gave her so little to do, it was impossible to see where her expertise lies. She only went to the property three times and never whilst any 'serious' building work was being done. . . For all us experienced renovators and hands on property people it's so frustrating. Quentin is lovely/enthusiastic etc etc but is this enough? If someone's employed lots of landscape gardeners to make their outside spaces pretty, are they qualified to present garden shows? If they've had lots of mortgages, are they qualified to give financial advice on TV? Ceri Radford's review for The Telegraph talked of the show being a bit cobbled together and at times patronising, which I agree with, finding some of the voice-overs to be unnecessarily headmistressy, plus there were far too many of them and nowhere near enough site visits! And as for all the pointless filler fripperies - from Mr & Mrs Perfect's dancing and flower arranging to the ridiculously doom-filled Omen type music, the theatrical zooming in, the breathily, gaspingly excitable historian, all so unnecessary. People who tuned in wanted to see the house being restored, the process, the ups and downs, the obstacles and how they were overcome - and were shown barely any of it. The couple were great, gung ho in a way that only the delightfully posh with too much money can be, though the haw-hawing about imitating not-so-posh builders accents to get cheap deals on materials did make me wince. I couldn't believe my eyes when all of a sudden Caroline Quentin was parachuted in at the end for the obligatory grand reveal. Hang on a min, it was a empty shell 5 minutes ago, what happened? Was everyone ill for 6 months and couldn't film? Did they have a big row and get the professionals in? Did that mouse from Fantasia sort it out in return for a lump of Somerset cheese? Such a shame. I don't think it really knew what it wanted to be…. a renovation show, a history show, a show about people and it ended up being none of them.'
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@homespunvintage: So, in conclusion. Restoration home was underwhelming, vacuous and without conservation. Well done BBC2
@stormyjoolz Oh #restorationhome is boring. Usual tv faux excitement infused 'journey telling'.
@anjdunne Just asked v experienced conservation architect colleague what they thought of #RestorationHome - said so bad turned off after ~3 mins :/
@DrFrond Until tv production companies break out of their tired, cliched formulas 4 architecture progs, every 1 is going to be like #restorationhome
@the_marchitect Arggg someone shoot the 'historian' for crying out loud - far too melodramatic!
@HouseHistorian Yes, it is rather up my street…although, I'm not so sure I like it?!? Perhaps a bit early to judge.
According to Kieran Long, the first episode had 2.1m viewers. This is the same number of viewers as the first episode of The Reclaimers in 2005.
Endemol wrote: Presented by Caroline Quentin, Restoration Home follows private owners of crumbling historic buildings as they save them from ruin and restore them into wonderful 21st century homes. For Caroline, this is a labour of love - she has a deep passion for old buildings and admits to being a serial home restorer over the last decade.
With the help of architectural expert, Kieran Long, and social historian, Dr. Kate Williams, Restoration Home turns detective to unravel the properties' astonishing lives. As the new owners transform the buildings into their homes, the family trees of these crumbling ruins start to emerge. Tales of Kings and Queens, murder, civil unrest, moments that shocked and shaped Britain are revealed as these once forgotten gems are brought back to life.
Managing Director for Remarkable Television Colette Foster comments; "Remarkable Television is dedicated to bringing viewers groundbreaking factual programmes and it's hugely exciting to move the concept behind Restoration forward with BBC Two. Caroline Quentin brings genuine warmth to the show as we follow the journey of each extraordinary property. The private owners of these buildings are independently helping to save the nation's architectural and historical heritage from ruin." Alison Kirkham, the BBC's Commissioning Editor for Factual Formats and Features, said: "Formats and Features on BBC TWO aim to make the educational entertaining whilst reflecting on real issues and interests from everyday life. In Restoration Home we look at history and the popular topics of restoration and reclamation. We are also absolutely delighted to have Caroline Quentin on board with this series alongside architectural expert Kieran Long and social historian Dr Kate Williams. Caroline has a real interest and background in restoring homes and is a passionate communicator." Commissioning Executive Producer at the BBC Lisa Edwards added: "I am really excited about this commission. It cleverly moves on the Restoration brand and taps into a territory we are all fascinated by. The mix of brilliant casting, fascinating characters, houses with intriguing stories to be unravelled and inspiring talent make for a fabulous watch."
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 OBSERVATIONS ON A SALVO FAIR
We hadn't been to a Salvo Fair since 2001 when it was held at Stoneleigh. I've sort of been remiss about things in the intervening years! Back then my hair was curly and dark but now not only has it gone grey but it's become straighter. Thinner and straighter. Thinner, straighter and a bit sort of wispy! In fact the style it's grown into is very reminiscent of the style that Hitler wore - except in the pictures Hitler's isn't wispy! However it does look a bit like the Fuhrer's and others laugh when I point this out but they only mildly remonstrate with me. They in fact recognise the similarity! How this could have happened I haven't a clue but it is an undeniable and hideous fact!
Thornton - who used to greet with affectionate joy in the old days when he saw me - did not now of course recognise me when I presented myself before him! He did not though recoil as I suspect he might have had a very-Hitler-look-alike walked into the Salvo tent. Of course I don't wear the moustache in fact I don't wear any moustache so maybe that was why only politeness - not polite curiosity - greeted me. I smiled my old smile reassuringly but all I saw was politeness at the back of his retinas. I looked into his thinly-blue eyes and thought of Chaucer!
To be honest I had walked into the tent about an hour earlier having seen the sign for Thos Gaze and son and thought I'd check on their next architectural salvage auction. I haven't been to one of those in ages either - been sort of preoccupied you know. I've in fact just sold off at a good loss, some of the stuff I bought at the last one! Carl Willows sat at the Gaze desk venerable, watchful and with his beard looking in the best condition I've ever seen it! Beside him was the most wonderful walrus skull I've ever seen. Carl's beard and the walrus skull seemed to dominate the room in the tent! It may have been the heat - it was hot - but there was a shimmering around the Gaze table and I was momentarily transfixed!
So excited was I by the skull that I forgot my manners and forgot to offer my hand when saying hallo to him I gravitated towards the skull that seemed to whisper to me 'Peter take me home - I know you want me!' Carl, who has impeccable manners reached for my hand in such a way that I was almost unaware that I hadn't proffered it. Now that's mega-manners for you and I felt a twinge of chagrin! Asking how he was I spoke to Carl but looked at the skull - Estimate £150 -£200 the card said! [Sold £1,700 at Gaze's sale - ed] Oh Blimey! I could buy it now I thought unaware of why the skull was really there. Like an idiot I asked where the Salvo tent was. Carl gave me an old-fashioned look and pointed behind me! Ah! I laughed a teeny bit too high-pitchedly to be convincing! Yes! Of course! I knew it was behind me in the same tent really. Honest!
At the Salvo table was a lady. I asked her if she was Ruby and she said she was. She was a child when last I saw her. I asked after her father and she said he was here - somewhere - wearing a battered straw hat. I said I'd look for him and left the tent.
In the heat outside everything now shimmered and the stand with old polished bits off boats looked almost unearthly. Two interesting sort-of fog horny things were in the front of the stand and people turned the old handles and a lovely fog-horny sound emanated from it. I thought of Conlan Nancarrow who was a composer who used pianolas and in one concert had seven of them on stage each playing their individual parts. I conceived a piece of music using the two fog-horny things in front of me but not being a composer and my eye catching sight of some other wonder the thought left me as quickly as it had come in.
Wandering idly around was a joy. My wife Caroline found a lady selling little teddy bears with hand dyed wool from individual sheep breed which captivated her. They smelled nice I thought, sniffing them. There was a nice lady selling whopping great ancient-looking wooden troughs that were for pounding off the husks of rice and had come from Sumatra. I thought them very handsome and deliciously useless in this country. I fancied sitting in one but it was too narrow.
A chap selling door furniture captivated me with his Eliza Doolittle meets Sid Vicious voice and intonation. He had a polished weather-beaten face and stubble that looked like it was of the consistency of that hair that Jeff Goldblum finds on himself in the film 'The Fly'. I listened, rapt with interest as he discussed with an uninteresting looking man the first integral door-knocker and letterbox in one that he and his fellow 'door furniture' colleagues and competitors had ever seen. To reveal the letterbox you slid the knocker up and the gap was revealed. It was in very nice bronze to boot.
Back in the 70s I had a couple of antique dealer friends who if they bought something that was somewhat unsellable in its own right they would 'lamp it'. One stall holder at the Salvo Fair had gone one better! He 'lamped' what already existed. There was a cricket bat lamp. There was a riding boot light; a tin hat chandelier-thing light. I have to say they were inspired but not that inspiring!
I fell in love with a wonderful bath/invalid chair that was being offered for sale by an Irish gentleman. I rather like wheelchairs and have a lovely old bentwood one that was made in Berlin about 1860 and which I paid quite a bit for. No-one of course is interested in buying it. I buy things everyone thinks are amazing but are essentially utterly useless and unnecessary!
I had great fun in it when I first got it by hiding in the door shed with a frightful mask on that I had acquired many years ago and waiting for Caroline to come back into the yard. When she did I emerged at full speed - I'm pretty nifty in a wheel chair - and hurtled towards her. She screamed politely!
I didn't buy the wheel chair. I didn't buy anything except an ice cream from the Knebworth House kiosk thing. It was a nice fair.
[Old printed SalvoNEWS readers may remember occasional stream of consciousness contributions by architectural salvage dealer, bronze founder, explorer and naturalist, Peter Jones entitled 'Tales from a Nature Yard'. Well, he's back - ed]
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 DRUMMONDS RELOCATION AUCTION
"The build-up was pretty good," Drummond Shaw said (from Poland) after the relocation auction on 18 June, "people came a good six weeks beforehand to view because they had heard about it, and a lot of them ended up buying ahead of the sale in order to secure their bits and pieces. Then, at the live sale around half the lots went, mostly bottom to middle stuff, and a few big ticket items at the top end."
Most of the gates and fireplaces sold including the top lot, a carved marble surround in the Italian renaissance style, which sold for £15,000 (inc 20% BP) to the UK trade, a large pair of 19thC tudor arched-headed panelled carved oak doors 3.33m high which sold for £3,600, and a pair of 3.8m wide late 19thC iron gates which sold for £4,440. The 4m high stone well head that was used in the old Drummonds logo from the early days until three years ago sold to a private customer in the USA.
"The sale seemed to clear out different areas of stock, such as windows, doors and staircases, to dealers with an interest in those areas. We had to donwsize as part of our strategic plan to relocate Drummonds to a smaller site, still in Surrey (- we have changed our earlier plans to move it to Dorset). The architectural salvage section will stock 'grand project' pieces but we plan to source the more everyday items on demand. Moving forward Drummonds will have three prime areas - new bathrooms, flooring and architectural salvage.
"We now have the best up-market bathroom brand in the world where sales of a £50,000 bathroom is not unusual. In four years we have moved to a very strong position with two-thirds of our turnover coming from new bathrooms in which we have a relatively unassailable position, and we are planning to double production again next year."
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 ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM SELLS FOR £1,400 AT GAZE'S
An elephant decorated by Hilary and Lewis Davies with the Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner by Coleridge sold for £1,400 (plus 12.5% Buyer's Premium) at Gaze's sale on 2 July 2011 of architectural salvage and statuary held in Diss. This was one of many fibreglass elephants decorated by local artists which was sold for charity in Norfolk three years ago for £3,800 and which was one of a menagerie brought by Carl Willows for a day out on Gaze's stand at Salvo Fair. A sought-after old walrus skull perched on Mr Willows' desk at the fair raised a creditable £1,700.
Other architectural and garden antiques of note included a square tapered carved stone sundial which sold for £1,100, a novel upsidedown carved stone urn sundial which fetched £750, a 'Vale of Loom' stone mounting block which sold for £800, a K6 red phone box which made a VAT inclusive £600, and an original restored Covent Garden handcart which sold for £750.
Reclaimed building materials were in evidence among which the top lots of the sale was a lot of 29sqyds of York stone flags at £3,200 (£124sqyd inc BP), and 40sqyds of early 20thC oak floorboards which sold for £2,000, and 16sqyds of 19thC oak floorboards which sold for £1,000 (£70sqyd inc BP).
Next sale at Gaze will be Rural and Domestic Bygones on Saturday 23 July 2011.
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 SALVO FAIR 2011 SUCCESS
Salvo Fair 2011, held at Knebworth from 24-26 June, was deemed another success by most exhibitors and fairgoers as the predicted bad weather held off and sunshine ruled yet again. Most exhibitors reported good, if not record, sales. The unconfirmed gate was around 5,500, up from 4,800 in 2010. The Friday trade day went well with many exhibitors covering their weekend stand and petrol costs by the end of the day.
Newcomer Fred Nixon, who had booked late and had a stand of original GPO post boxes furthest from the main entrance, had sold the three oldest and most expensive of his boxes within two hours of the fair opening on the Friday.
One of the most successful stands in terms of sales was Vintage Fridge at the end of the main avenue by the Salvo tent which sold a restored and converted French oak fridge for £8,000 on the trade day, believed to be the highest item sold at Salvo Fair 2011, and three carved limestone ridge finials with crouching quadrupeds from Hampton Court Palace for £1,200. His lowest value sale was for a brass and copper Turkish steelyard at £20. John Bodrell, owner of Vintage Fridge and the Cast Iron Reclamation Company, said that he had also had enquiries for three fridges for a Roman villa, one or two for a Georgian mansion in Essex, and another for a restaurant in Kinghtsbridge.
"I am chuffed to bits," Mr. Bodrell said afterwards, "really enjoyed it, and had a lot of interest in the fridges and gave out loads of brochures. But the Sunday was a bit of a nightmare with ice-cream wielding kids dripping on my hand polished cast iron radiators." The marquees of Vintage Fridge and Ben Couchman's UK Architectural Heritage were more like upmarket antiques showrooms than typical salvage stands, so next year there may have to be a 'no ice-cream' policy introduced in the showroom stands.
Other pieces of note at the fair which did not sell included a nineteenth century £12,000 Portland stone garden seat on the stand of Architectural Salvage Source, and a set of six Victorian mirrors gilded lettered pub mirrors from The Finish pub in Bermondsey on the stand of Architectural Forum.
There was also a good range of specialist architectural salvage and garden antique dealers including antique garden ornament at Architectural Salvage Source and Linda North, English Rose kitchens from Source Antiques, antique bathrooms from Mongers of Hingham and Antique Baths of Ivybridge, two impressive displays of reclaimed stone from Steptoe's Yard and Abacus Stone, reclaimed French oak flooring and clay floor tiles from BCA Materiaux Anciens and E W Trading, antique doors from Smiths Architectural Salvage, Arc Reclamation and De Zonneroos from Holland as well as antique door furniture on various smaller stands, antique radiators from The Old Radiator Company, antique lighting and kitchenalia from Keir Lewis and Guy Trench, marine antiques from Trinity Marine, and antique church furnishings on the stand of Chancellors who were the only exhibitors who have stood at all eleven Salvo Fairs.
The sponsors of this year's fair were Period Living magazine, T W Gaze, and Wellers Auctioneers who, for the first time in the history of the fair, held an onsite auction on the Saturday of lots consigned by exhibitors which included a pair of mossy Victorian urn finials from Cox's Yard that sold for £3,800 as the top lot.
Salvo was once again collecting on behalf of Medecins Sans Frontieres which has raised £466 so far, including T shirt sales kindly donated by Abacus Stone, and £50 kindly raised by the carboot challenge team. This event, started last year by Kevin Green, Laurence Green and David Salter, took place on the Sunday, with a group of intrepid dealers visiting a nearby car boot sale at 6am and buying a selection of items for £1 each which were then sold for as much as possible. The winner, once again, was Kevin Green from Mayenne, whose £1 ceramic pot lamp sold for £22.
Next years Salvo Fair will be held at Knebworth on 22-24 June 2012.
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