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 DR JONATHAN FOYLE'S ARCHITECTURAL SALVAGE ASPERSIONS
Did you see the FT Weekend 10/11th Dec entitled 'Finders keepers' (Front Page of 'House & Home' section)? Jonathan Foyle, Chief Executive of the World Monuments Fund Britain, seemed to rapidly skate, like an Alice in Wonderland with arms flailing, through the subject at hand, casting aspersions and implications wildly as he went.
He started in a Marrakech salvage yard, tumbled through a Sotheby's fireplace auction in London and lands in a heap in the subject of Antiquities (he sticks his head into a Cambodian cupboard entitled 'Angkor Wat'). Off again (he has now consulted the Unesco website) he dips into Switzerland, then Italy, and emerges through an Avon rabbit-hole in Bath talking to Andy Triplow of Masco-Walcot about the Salvo Code (I am not sure if he was in a time warp at this point or not). Suddenly we are on the subject of manhole-cover theft in Philadelphia, Lead statues nicked from Stowe, some radiators sourced from Versailles and others supplied to Jordan. At last, he bumps into Charles Brooking whose 'Brooking Collection' plight is contrasted with 'the illicit trade [that] plunders for profit', which is to conflate the Antiquities problems he discovered in Switzerland and Italy with the Architectural Salvage trade that Charles works alongside.
Foyle seems to have done his research on the basis of a Moroccan holiday, a tour around Google and a colourful chat with Charles. Theft of architectural and garden ornament and materials (especially metalwork) is an ongoing problem that should be reported in a proportionate way and not confused with the theft of antiquities in Iraq or Etrurian archeological sites. Why did Mr Foyle not talk to Thornton Kay who could describe the legitimate architectural salvage trade that not only enables the reuse of valuable materials but actively prevents the trade in stolen architectural salvage (and, impressively, has a history of retrieving it)?
The trip around Wonderland would not be a problem if this article did not put an unjustified and unhelpful seed-of-doubt in the minds of our precious potential customers. Off With His Head!
Anthony Reeve
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Finders keepers?
By Jonathan Foyle
Trade in antiquities and artefacts is thriving around the world but ethical concerns abound
Any decent guidebook will tell you not to go off with strangers into the labyrinthine souks of Marrakech, just in case you'd neglected basic parental advice, or your own instincts have utterly failed you.
So I mused, while strolling down the Rue Sidi el Yamani, an ancient, dusty pink thoroughfare lined with domestic ornaments, lanterns, rugs and cushions, leading into the heart of the medina. On the right hand of the street, I was ushered through a small arch on the right hand of the street and down a flight of steps. There, in a hidden-away courtyard, lay dismembered parts of historic buildings. Doors from Moroccan houses studded with iron with traces of yellow, blue, white and red paint. It was an architectural abattoir, or, if you like, a source of original and exquisite artefacts for inside and outside a home.
Through another door and deeper into the old building came a tremendous, 16th-century domed hall, full of fake antiques and two other tourists, caught like wasps in a jam jar by the proprietor. I ask where all the architectural fixtures and fittings come from.
"From old buildings all over Morocco. They are taken down and brought here by two brothers," he says, caressing an outrageously priced lantern, of prized workmanship. (There were a couple more across the room should a set of these rare items be desired.) Many seek to embellish their house with period pieces. Last year, Sotheby's in London launched the first ever sale of fireplaces.
Home is where the hearth is, after all, as Henry House, senior director in Sothebys' furniture department, told Art Daily: "Their ability to add drama and interest to a room has long been recognised by those of us who have spent long hours seeking out the hard-to-find examples of our choice in architectural salvage yards and the like."
The image of senior directors clambering over salvage yards demonstrates the current interest in their sculptural quality and the demand for the best, attributed, work. At face value, all this might be reasonable. Recycling is the mantra of the age. But when is architectural salvage a good thing? And when is it cultural vandalism?
Jason Felch, co-author of Chasing Aphrodite, a recently published exposé of looted antiquities in museums, argues that many stolen artefacts ultimately come from buildings:
"When you see a classical bust in a collection, its neck is usually broken off. In fact, they're usually heads rather than busts, because they're the most valuable and portable pieces of statues, which were carved upon, or conceived to stand within buildings. You see it all the time in south-east Asia. The great temple complex of Angkor Wat in Cambodia is a giant quarry for traffickers."
One man's salvage is another man's plunder, but gauging which is which is often impossible. The problem is a common lack of provenance. Any object for sale or display should be proven to have been circulated before the Unesco Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property of 14 November 1970, which says:
"It is incumbent upon every State to protect the cultural property existing within its territory against the dangers of theft, clandestine excavation, and illicit export."
How does that clandestine excavation happen? "It's a broad supply pyramid," says Felch. "Across Europe, the poor are encouraged to dig up archaeological sites at night. They don't know the value of what they unearth, and sell the finds on to middle-men who smuggle pieces to order. Switzerland is a safe haven, where items are conserved and sent on."
The need to abide by the pre-1970 provenance for collectables is neatly avoided. "Traffickers have been known to stage an auction through a reputable house, in which they plant purchasers. With a sale in a major house, the piece has arrived with its own provenance - a stamp of approval - and they get it back, worth more second time around."
He's referring to cases like Giacomo Medici, launderer of Italian antiquities convicted in 2004 for supplying auction houses and museums with pieces of Greek, Etruscan and Roman artefacts. When his storage facility in Geneva airport was opened in 1995, thousands of ancient carvings were revealed with links to collectors and auction houses in London and New York. Though many pieces were repatriated, some are still on the open market.
While antiquities are imported to Britain, British salvage is often exported, says Andy Triplow, manager of Masco Walcot Architectural Salvage in Bath, which reopened last month. I ask where their stock comes from, in what I feel to be a non-accusatory tone. "We don't buy anything we're suspicious about, and if anyone's shifty we'll take their vehicle registration. We abide by the Salvo code." This is a 1995 voluntary code for members of the Salvo reclamation collective. Dealers in the UK and US are "not to buy any item if there is the slightest suspicion that it may be stolen."
Between 2002 and 2008 the global price of lead multiplied tenfold. At Stanley Park, Blackpool on August 2 this year, three sculptures made by John Cheere for Stowe House (c1760), were sawn off at the ankles and stolen. Their value as complete works of art might have been a hundred times their value as molten lead. The theft of lead is frequently called "epidemic", and the UK government has now set up a £5m taskforce against metal theft. Iron is a target too: 2008 saw 600 manhole covers stolen in Philadelphia. In Haiti, some vestige of a living is to be had from plucking iron from the rubble of earthquake damage. Picking over buildings, legal and illicit, is a global business.
The supply is very varied. Masco Walcot sells plaster capitals from the Dorchester to anyone who wants the hotel-at-home cachet. A favourite market is for old oak panels, which lend instant antiquity to American houses and club rooms, proving especially effective with a quality fireplace. You can find salvage from around the world on online auction sites, though many Asian pieces are fakes.
Triplow makes the point that the world buys British: "We don't find pieces from abroad: 99 per cent of our foreign dealing is for exported English salvage; 1 per cent would be import." There are some surprises here. "The last job I had was in Jordan. A member of the royal family wanted 42 old radiators so we supplied and fitted them." Selling radiators in the desert would seem an emotional rather than practical purchase.
What persuades buyers to adopt pieces of old buildings? "Quality. Otherwise, it's about the unusual stuff or a strong provenance. A connection with a historical person, or a famous place. I know a dealer: all his radiators came out of Versailles."
I don't know anyone with a similar claim. Except Charles Brooking. Since the age of 18 months he has been fascinated by architectural details, staring from his push-chair at door knockers in Cheam, Surrey, where his nanny wheeled him along streets of varied houses. His parents were at first unsympathetic to the sheds sprouting in the back garden to hold his collection of salvaged windows. His first museum opened when he reached the ripe age of 12.
"My parents invited their architect friends to see it, and my mother saw the value. It was a big disappointment to my father. He was an evangelical, and we had blazing rows over Sunday tea when he'd blast that 'it'll all be burned in the second coming so there's no point in conservation!'," recalls Brooking.
"I tried to trim the collection in 1973 and 1983. It was a mistake. I sold pieces that I regretted and bought them back for twice as much as I got for them."
Brooking haunts demolition sites and recalls the provenance of every last hinge.
"Oh, 1979 was dreadful. Elizabeth Barrett Browning's house at 99 Gloucester Place was being demolished. I removed the sashes but the builders told me they might re-use them. So I took a bedroom fireplace out - it still had coal in it - and lugged it into a taxi and then home by train from Waterloo. A passenger said 'You're fire's gone out, mate!'"
He returned the following week: the windows she knew had been skipped. Eventually Brooking senior had to face the fact that their monomaniacal son was unstoppable, and set up a trust in 1985 as the collection became vast.
Today, Brooking has around 250,000 pieces of salvage that form the basis of a national collection of architectural detail. A lone surviving piece of Crystal Palace's ironwork; the back door of 10 Downing Street. They've cost him his life's salary plus contributions from his partner and family. Now, after more than a decade at the University of Greenwich, there's nowhere to store it. His house in Cranleigh, Surrey, is full, its garden lined with outbuildings.
Whilst the illicit trade plunders for profit, Brooking is staring at a huge liability. His dearest wish is for his architectural details to be a national asset, to help the British understand and appreciate their homes better. And as the clock ticks, he can only hope that the situation is salvageable.
As for me, I salvaged myself from the tourist trap and bought a pair of lanterns elsewhere. No doubt they'll be resold one day.
Jonathan Foyle is chief executive of World Monuments Fund Britain
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 RECORD FINE FOR UK DEMOLITION WITHOUT CONSENT IN A CONSERVATION AREA
Piers Rance of Fulham was fined £120,000 plus Hammersmith & Fulham Council's costs of around £100,000 for the demolition of a house in Cloncurry Street in a conservation area without planning consent at Isleworth Crown Court on December 13th - £40,000 more than the previous highest fine. His own legal costs were said to be around £300,000 giving a grand total he has to find of £520,000. The house had been valued at £2.2m prior to demolition.
Nick Botterill, deputy council leader and cabinet member for environment, said: "Rance showed absolutely no consideration for his neighbours or planning law by demolishing this house in a conservation area. Most people in this borough realise that their actions impact on others, but Rance did not care and did whatever he wanted.
"The colossal fine that Rance has been hit with is £40,000 more than the previous highest record fine and reflects how serious his offences are. While we are keen to create a borough of opportunity and welcome responsible development, people simply cannot take matters like this into their own hands."
Rance had submitted a planning application to the council in April 2007 to extend his house on Cloncurry Street, Fulham, which included the excavation of a new basement underneath the house, but before the council could make a decision on whether or not to grant planning permission for these extensions, Rance had torn down the house and already begun digging out a new basement area.
Rance claimed that the building needed to be demolished as it was in a state of collapse but in his appeal trial, which took place in October, Judge Denniss did not accept this defence stating that it was extremely unlikely that Mr Rance would have purchased a property for £2.2million without carrying out a structural survey unless he always had the intention of demolishing it for financial gain.
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SUSTAINABLE TRADITIONAL BUILDINGS ALLIANCE LAUNCHED IN LONDON
John Edwards MA, DipBldgCons, CEnv, FCIOB, FRICS, IHBC is a Chartered Environmentalist and co author of CIOB guidance on retrofit for climate change and sustainable refurbishment as well as maintenance and operation of buildings. Also a member of the CIOB Carbon Action 2050 Group, he has now co-founded the UK Sustainable Traditional Buildings Alliance.
Well known for his work involving historic buildings, John first undertook non-destructive surveying techniques and environmental monitoring of buildings in 1981, and has since been responsible for investigating and designing works to a wide range of buildings from social housing to Castles and Cathedrals. John currently specialises in the development and promotion of expertise required for both crafts and professions involved in the sustainability of the UK's building stock.
The STBA, launched on 29th November 2011 at Somerset House, was described as 'an umbrella organisation of legal entities that work in the built environment which seeks to promote better understanding of traditional buildings and their impact on environment and society. It will seek to actively promote and deliver a more sustainable traditional built environment in the UK through high quality research, education, training and policy work.'
The launch was coordinated by Seamus Hana, Specialist Projects and Development Manager from Construction Skills. The Alliance is hoping to draw membership from all sectors with an involvement in traditional buildings and sustainability initiatives including those campaigning for or managing schemes to promote sustainability to, specifies, contractors, developers of relevant technology and any trade bodies, institutes or organisations with a relevant interest.
There is an urgent pressure to increase sustainability and reduce the carbon footprint associated with the UK's housing stock including initiatives such as the Government's Green Deal. About one quarter of the UK building stock are thought to be pre-1919 buildings of solid wall/permeable construction. It is recognised that some technologies and techniques designed to increase sustainability in current construction may not be appropriate for the pre-1919 sector of the housing stock.
The STBA broadly wishes to understand how traditional buildings perform thermally, the impact retro fit technology has, and the appropriateness of technology. The STBA will provide policy, guidance and training to minimise long term risk to traditional buildings and their owners with the focus on energy consumption, health, building fabric, impact on communities and culture. The STBA has engaged Dr Caroline Rye of SPAB to carry out a gap analysis of research on performance and energy efficiency of traditional buildings.
Speakers from organisations such as the Usable Buildings Trust, SPAB, EH, CADW and those involved in contracting and training within the industry, gave brief talks. A steering group consisting of a chair, deputy chair and eight members will be formed, meetings will be held, funds sought, and a web site will be launched in due course.
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 LIFE AND DEATH AND OTHER MATTERS OF BUSINESS PART 2
The ambulance ride was astonishingly noisy. It was the tyres in contact with the road's surface that caused this the ambulanceman answered me when I queried it. I retched violently and noisily several times on the journey and apologised to the crew who soothed me and said it was fine as they held a paper vomit bowl under my mouth. It was made in the same way that the mottled grey, cardboard egg boxes used to be.
At the hospital a young doctor saw me and I remember bustling persons with surrounding faces, dark watchful eyes, my blood pressure being taken, a painful injection in my bum and later another. The babble of voices babbled lowly about me. Inner ear were the words I kept hearing being repeated. I was utterly unable to get up or raise my head. A band I once loved called The Holy Modal Rounders cut a track on their c. 1968 album on Elektra entitled 'The Moray Eeels Eat'. The track was called 'My Mind Capsized' and those three words sum up what my head and vision felt like. I smiled miserably to myself at the memory of the song.
In the hospital I was asked by someone what exactly had happened. I was able to relate it all much as I have done in my last article on this event. Every time another doctor approached me I was asked what had happened. Explain it from the beginning they would ask. When I'd told my tale they would sometimes nod and say something along the lines of 'mmmm yes, that's what I heard'. While the memory of it all is now a little hazy, it's not that hazy. I must have related the sequence of events of what befell me that Sunday luchtime eight or nine times that day. I was lucid enough to tell it like it happened each time.
"Peter? Peter! Peter? I want you to sit up Can you open your eyes?" The young doctor was insistent. I think I groaned and retched horribly. He waited. "Peter?" he said more gently, "Peter, I know it feels awful but I must get you to sit up. You must sit up. You must sit up"
With a near supreme effort I opened my eyes and did so and it was like balancing my entire vision on a tray of oiled ball bearings on a choppy sea while standing up in a rowing boat. It was ghastly.
"Swing your legs over the bed please". He smiled helping me with the assistance of at least one other nurse. I looked down as I persuaded my reluctant legs to hang over the edge of the bed while trying not to let my vision or was it my mind turn upside down. I looked with utter indifferent weariness at my socks, the left with a hole in the heel and my dirty three quarter length Tesco trousers I'd been wearing when I'd been clearing up and weeding the yard.
"Peter? Are you ok? How do you feel?" the doctor asked as he helped me to sit up. My eyes kept wanting to close.
"As sick as a dog!" I muttered. He smiled.
"I know. It feels awful. I know it does Peter but actually, we think that you only have a problem in your inner ear. It's not that serious but it feels terrible," he said smiling.
"Ah! That's good to know!" I tried a wan smile with my eyes partially open.
He laughed and chatted away for a bit before he then asked me: "Peter? Tell me. When your vision 'tilted' as you say it did and then 'turned over' as you describe did you appear to be sideways on to it so that it was happening left to right or right to left rather than towards you and away from you? Do you understand the distinction?" He peered into my eyes.
"Yes, I understand the distinction," I said carefully, trying to concentrate on feeling normal but with an overwhelming desire to put my head back onto he bed and close my eyes. "It happened from side to side."
"Ah! That's good!" he said, "That's good". He conferred with the others. "A bit of debris, Peter, I am sure, has detached itself in your inner ear - there's always bits of stuff in there. Everyone has it. Anyway a bit has come away and is floating around and hitting the hairs in your inner ear that are responsible for your sense of balance. It's the same as vertigo. That's what's making you feel nauseous. I think I can fix it quite easily" he said triumphantly.
"Great!" I groaned trying to lie back.
"No! No! Don't lie down Peter!" he said, firmly holding me in place, "Peter! Don't lie down! Look! Look! Watch my finger. Hold your head still but watch my finger".
With effort I did. He moved his finger slowly to the left, looking into my eyes as he did so, then to the right, then up and then diagonally and then down. I concentrated with some effort and followed his finger's moveme4nts picturing my dolorous, semi-decrepit face and wondered if I had dribble stains round my mouth.
"That's good!," he said to the others gathered in the room. He then in a low voice spoke to them - there must have been five others besides the doc - and I heard the words 'hornpipe' and 'Appsley Test'. "Peter! Peter? Look I want you to listen carefully Ok? Peter? I know It's hard but you'll feel better soon I promise. Peter? Sit now with your legs over the bed and look to your right. Ok? Look to your right and don't move. Ok? I'm going to lower your upper body sideways over the edge of the bed - don't worry I won't let you fall - and then lift you up again to the same position. Ok? Are you clear on that?"
I said I was, wondering what would happen when I vomited on him and how he'd take it.
He firmly, unerringly and comparatively swiftly, did exactly what he said he'd do. It was dreadful but I wasn't sick. I then had to reverse my position on the bed facing the other way and he lowered me right over sort of sideways and backwards at the same time with my head lowered almost touching the floor. He then lay me back on the bed. Five minutes later he asked me with a bright tone in his voice how I felt. I raised my head a little and said I felt dreadful. He told me that this movement would make the 'bit of debris' in my ear return to its point of origin. I would soon feel better. He continued to tell those gathered and myself that this was what an inner ear problem felt like and I would soon feel completely cured. It was not open to discussion. It was an inner ear problem and he had sorted it out with the 'hornpipe' and Appsley tests. I then realised he was going to discharge me and I felt utter panic.
"Look doctor, please don't send me home. Please! I can't walk. Honestly. I'm a strong man and resourceful and not keen to say in hospital and I know you are overworked and that there is a shortage of beds but honestly I can't go home. I can't stand up! I really cannot stand! I would if I could but I can't! Please let me stay here for the night. Please!" There was silence in the room and then some discussion amongst them all and then they left. I lay there quite still and with my eyes shut. I don't quite know how long it was before someone else entered the room but someone did and I was told I was to be admitted. I was wheeled off somewhere, injected in the bottom again, given some tablets to take and then lost consciousness. I remember being wheeled to a ward and a sweet faced nurse asking me if I wanted anything to eat. I thanked her and said no.
In the morning, soon after I woke and after tablets, blood pressure taking and another injection, a doctor probably in his late 40's came to see me asked how I felt and then asked me what had happened.
"Oh! Dear! Not again!" I groaned, "I told a dozen people yesterday a dozen times what happened. Don't you honestly know?"
"Look if you don't want me to examine you then that's fine by me!" he said clenching his teeth with vehemence and flashing his dark eyes at me," but I am the registrar you know!" I was staggered by this attitude and frankly slightly nervous.
"I'm sorry," I lightly whined, "I didn't mean to upset you…."
"That's ok!" he quickly snapped back interrupting me, "now, tell me exactly what happened." I told him. He listened nodding. "We'll have you scanned, I think. I'll book it in," and with that he went away.
I slept on and off and about midday I was wheeled off to be scanned. The scan wasn't too bad. I just was rolled head first into a tube thing that rotated and hummed. It was over quickly and I was taken back to the ward where I was with three other men considerably older than myself. One groaned a bit. The one next to me had his clothes on but lay on the bed with his hands behind his head. He sucked his teeth every couple of minutes and then exhaled loudly. I lay on my bed musing on my predicament and wondering if my dogs were ok.
"Doo yoo vant henny larnch?" a youngish blonde woman with blue overall things on suddenly asked me. I hadn't noticed her arrival. She had a clipboard. I considered. Could I eat anything?
"Just a little soup please if you have any?"
"No hot meel?" I declined. "Any froot, yoghurt or pooding?"
"No thank you" I said.
"Any tee, cawfee, a ban-an-a orer napple?" I declined again and said no thank you just soup. Her name was Katya and she came from Poland and had married and left an Englishman but had no children.
A little later a bevvy of entirely young female doctors came in to see me and the largest and most feminine - a newly-qualified lady doctor from Arabia I soon found out called Nadeel - questioned me as to what had happened. I told them all while addressing her and answered all their questions and at the end complimented her on her shoes which were animal print and of a nice design. She and the others laughed. She said that I had an inner ear infection and that she would be back later
I slept much of the day and about five thirty the previously shirty registrar returned.
"Hallo," he said, "I am sorry if I was a little off with you this morning but…" I interrupted him and assured him it was ok. I though it was a good idea to keep on the right side of him but I was as equally surprised by his apologies as I had been by his aggression earlier! "Well now, Mr Jones," he commenced, "well now," he repeated, " I'm surprised to tell you that you've actually had a stroke. It's surprising; very surprising but there it is! In effect you're too young, too slim, too fit to have one and you don't smoke at all you say or… drink too much?" He asked that last one as a question and I replied that I did drink a little too much on occasion. He paused. I waited, not entirely surprised by what he had said but unaware at that moment of the implications. He then went on to tell me how surprised he was at the result of the scan but it was without doubt, a fact. The damage had occurred in the back of the brain in the cerebellum - the area where balance is located hence my initial distorted balance and view of the world turning upside down when it happened and the accompanying nausea. He told me I would be moved to the stroke ward soon which was 'very good with lots of very good people there who will look after you (me) and that while a stroke was not a good thing it was undoubtedly the best time to get a stroke what with the astonishing progress in drugs that can be prescribed to helpme.' I sighed. Well that's that, I thought. How the heck did that come about I wondered as I lay there after he'd gone. What now Life?
I was moved soon after to Petworth ward, the one for stroke victims. I had a room to myself.
The next morning, Tuesday, Nadeel and the girls came around again and stood around my bed while their leader - a lady doctor - told them I had an 'inner ear problem' and she was going to demonstrate the Hornpipe and the Appsley tests.
"But I've had a stroke…." I began.
"No. You've an inner ear infection. Believe me. It's better to have that than a stroke!"
I didn't argue. My brain was razzled and I now realise I was very confused. She ordered me into the positions I had become familiar with and I had to watch her finger as before. I didn't protest. After explaining the position I must adopt on the end of the bed for the tests she thrust her bust towards me as she held my shoulders and with a 'keep looking to your left' shoved me over the edge of the bed. I was feeling much better generally but with this treatment I quickly developed a nasty, sicky feeling. The demonstration complete and with a satisfied look on her face she and the girls left. I could hear them going through my notes that were kept on a file outside my room and commenting on them.
A short while later I heard the busty doctor gasp and exclaim loudly enough for me to hear,
"He's had a stoke! It's here on his notes! Oh! Dear! What a faux pas! Oh! Dear!" I heard her laugh nervously and a rustle of acknowledgement of this extraordinary fact from the girls. "Really one must read the notes next time before visiting the patient! Remember that now ok?"
I am not normally the kind of man to go on about personal misfortune, especially of a medical kind. As a young man working for my father here at the Yapton Metal Co I would frequently come across invariably older male customers who on being asked a courteous 'how are you keeping?' would then regale me with their tales of illness and survival frequently insisting on showing me their surgical scars irrespective of whether I wanted to see them or not. I had an aptitude then to listen politely and these men took that to be interest on my part.
I relate here the tale of my stroke and subsequent treatment I received for three reasons: firstly, had I died Thornton would have probably written a bit of an obituary about me so as I didn't die I see this as a human interest story for Salvo. Secondly I have dealt with architectural salvage as an employee of my father and latterly in my own right for well over thirty years so my audience is in part contemporary with me and plenty of them of a similar age and life style I reckon at least judging by the bunch of odd-bods I saw at the Salvo fair. Lastly the business as I run it and certainly the premises it occupies and the way I work in it is old fashioned and will probably die out in due course with me. So I write for posterity too.
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 WELSH GOVERNMENT CONSULTATION ON C&D STRATEGY INCLUDES REUSE
The Welsh Government wants your views on its construction and demolition sector plan in four key areas.
1. Waste prevention:
• Reducing the waste arisings directly produced by the sectors covered in the plan; and
• Utilising ecodesign approaches throughout the construction and demolition sector's processes.
2. Preparation for reuse:
• Use of demolition plans to ensure resources such as bricks, blocks, window and doorframes etc are preserved, where practicable, for reuse; and
• Provision of infrastructure to encourage partnerships for reuse between construction & demolition contractors and the third sector.
3. Recycling:
• Encourage better segregation of waste to enable higher recycling rates and improved quality of recyclate; and
• Encourage use of recycled materials and products as replacements for virgin materials, where viable.
4. Treatment and disposal:
• Deliver sustainable treatment and disposal of residual construction and demolition waste in a cost effective way and work towards the targets set in Towards Zero Waste, including those that limit energy from waste and seek to reduce landfill to zero.
Reason for this consultation
The purpose of this consultation is to seek the views of interested parties on the draft Construction and Demolition Sector Plan which covers wastes generated by construction and demolition companies in Wales. The draft plan supports 'Towards Zero Waste', the overarching waste strategy document for Wales, by detailing outcomes, policies and delivery actions for this sector. It forms part of the suite of documents that overall comprise the waste management plan for Wales in accordance with the plan making requirements enshrined in UK and EU legislation.
Outline of the Proposals
The proposals contained in this document seek to deliver the sustainable development outcomes identified in the Sustainable Development Scheme 'One Wales: One Planet' and in Towards Zero Waste. They contribute to the delivery of the Welsh Government's commitments (including targets) set under relevant EU Directives in a way that meets and delivers key overarching policies and strategies on sustainable development and climate change, as well as those set by other Welsh Government functions.
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 BMRA LOOK FOR NEW DIRECTORS
The BMRA (Building Material Reuse Association of America) needs to find two new directors for which elections will be held on January 19th. In addition, depending on the decision by members about a proposed bylaws change, the number of BMRA board positions could be increased.
The BMRA states that service on the board can be an incredibly rewarding experience. It provides the opportunity to help shape the work of the BMRA, and to participate at the leading edge of progress of the C&D materials reuse/recycling industry. The organization has a some great projects going that will only move forward with good leadership and facilitation.
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 DREW PRITCHARD IN 'SALVAGE HUNTERS' ON QUEST TV
Drew Pritchard is currently featured in ten part fly-on-the-wall architectural salvage documentary on Quest whose website states that , 'with demanding customers, high turnover, and one of the biggest decorative salvage yards in the UK, Drew Pritchard is constantly on the road, crisscrossing the country in search of derelict gems and forgotten remnants. Drew loves the thrill of the hunt and while he gets his hands dirty in the country's architectural backwaters, his crack team of restorers is back at the shop giving old and rare finds a new lease on life.'
On this weeks episode Drew bought lampshades and benches from a derelict airfield and a shop display counter and glazed doors from Steptoe's Yard in Montrose (not the Steptoe's Yard in Lancashire), packed a curtainliner for a customer in St Tropez and sold the glazed doors to Maria Speake of Retrouvius. 'Salvage Hunters' gave potted captions of the buy price and sell price with the gross profit made.
The series is made by Cineflix for the Discovery Network and can be seen on Quest on Freeview on Mondays at 9pm - and possibly Saturdays at 7pm.
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 ITV PRIMETIME TO REPEAT NEW SEEKING SALVAGE SERIES
'Seeking Salvage' is a new eight part hour long fly-on-the-wall documentary series featuring Trevor and Lee Jones of Beeston Reclamation in Cheshire and Dale Sumner and Paul Johnson of Ribble Reclamation in Lancashire. The series, which launched this month on the History Channel, is the Channel's most popular programme of the year with 100,000 viewers. It now looks set to be repeated on ITV1 as a six part half-hour long series in a primetime slot next April renamed as 'Trash to Treasure'.
The production company, RDF TV (Secret Millionaire, Dickinson's Real Deal, Attack of the Trip Advisors), thought the architectural salvage world merited a series, and contacted forty UK yards of which twenty were screen-tested and two were selected as the mainstays of the series. Other salvage businesses have also been filmed and have smaller roles.
Trevor Jones of Beeston Rec said sales had doubled and thousands of visitors had been to its website in the past two weeks. He was filmed at the fire-damaged Peckforton Castle hotel where 400sqm of 140 year old oak flooring was reclaimed, some of which is still for sale at Beeston, but most has been sold to Architectural Salvage Source in Hertfordshire. He was also filmed at the demolition of a silk mill in Congleton where a major client wanted to buy 100,000 reclaimed bricks, although only 28,000 were subsequently saved. A trial dig through the concrete floor turned up nice mill flagstones, and Trevor bargained on 700sqm being available, sadly disabused when it turned out that all the flags had been removed prior to the concrete being laid, apart from the small area beneath the trial dig.
Dale Sumner of Ribble Rec could be seen singing "We're in the money" as a load of quality reclaimed York flagstone arrived in his yard from a deal in Lancashire. Salvo Code member Ribble Reclamation has recently been bought by Paul Johnson of NFDC member Bradley Demolition whose daughter Suzanne Johnson said that Dale and Paul were filmed at Gaze's auction, on demolition sites for reclaimed brick, in the yard, and Dale on holiday in Spain looking at Spanish salvage yards. Suzanne said they had many enquiries about salvage seen in the yard on the programme and the TV series was proving a massive boost to business.
The series can be seen on Tuesday evenings on the History Channel.
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 LIFE AND DEATH AND OTHER MATTERS OF BUSINESS
It happened here in the yard in the early Sunday afternoon of October, 23rd. I was on my own and had been clearing up and had come into the office prior to going into the house to make a cup of tea. It was about twelve fifteen. As I went to leave the office my immediate field of vision encompassing the doorway I was about to walk through:- the lean-to adjoining the office and shop, the scales (for weighing scrap) five foot in front of me, the corrugated, galvanised iron wall of the lean-to behind the scales and a segment of the yard exposed to my visual left through the wide open entrance of this lean-to suddenly turned, without warning and without any other sensation, completely one hundred and eighty degrees anticlockwise and remained there. The experience was phenomenal. A section of the real, physical world here within my yard, right there in front of me, within my field of vision, lay on its side in perfect, absolute focus but I was fully conscious of being vertical. It was as if I was watching a film in ultra-clear-reality-vision-scape and the camera filming was suddenly and deliberately rotated to the left not swiftly but unerringly. I felt no dizziness, no pain and at that moment no feeling of nausea. I faltered because of this amazing visual event and took a deep breath and then another standing perfectly still looking calmly at the world - such as I could see of it - on its side.
As I stood there I was consciously wondering what was happening. I knew that what I was experiencing was in my head and not anything to do with the real world changing at all. My mind ran swiftly though gh through alternative possibilities such as whether this was happening due to the result of a surprise nuclear attack or maybe it was an apocalyptic judgment from God who was now going to strike me down! I gave neither of these instantaneous thoughts any credence. There was undoubtedly something happening to me. I waited motionless to see what was coming next hoping for normality but ready for more of the same. At the same time I carefully and deliberately felt for my mobile phone in my pocket and practised manipulating my hand and fingers to test as to whether my fingers were working ok to press the numbers. They were. If necessary I could phone 999 or someone.
Then - averting my eyes from my phone and looking forwards again - without any volition on my part, the view in front of me rotated to the right, clockwise and returned back to normal. Then in a strange, sinister way it continued the other way -upwards, to the left, nearly one hundred and eighty degrees and then seemed to virtually stop at the angle which if it was a clock it would be telling the time of five minutes to eleven and then, shockingly it - my whole field of vision - slowly went totally upside down and then I allowed myself a miserable acknowledging groan and as it went right the way over. My vision 'looped the loop' in front of me.
I knew then what was happening was serious and beyond my control. No amount of deep breaths were going to clear this up in a hurry. I had to lie down immediately - just where I was before I lost consciousness or generally keeled over and collapsed. If I fell I might hit my head on the scales and crack my skull and the small plate I have in my lower jaw might fly out and get lost. I thought of the embarrassment I'd feel about that if I was found helpless and gap-toothed. I did not want to wet myself either which might happen if I fell. Strangely enough I did not consider crapping myself. I remembered that a customer had phoned up the day before and was possibly coming to look at a door I had. He said he'd be there between twelve thirty and one. Perhaps, I thought, I might be able in a minute to hobble or even crawl to the gate, close it and escape to bed and take stock of this awful thing.
I felt hot, very hot and sweaty. I managed to lie down on the concrete and I remember thinking how cool it felt on my face. I lay on the ground with my back to the entrance. Then I felt so sick. I knew I was going to vomit. Bunty the black Labrador came up to me and nuzzled me and then I was sick. Rex, my border terrier came up too. I groaned at them to go away as they sniffed the vomited porridge I'd eaten earlier and lapped at it.
I placed my work gloves under my head and lay there. I didn't want to at this stage call 999 because I didn't want to be hauled off in an ambulance and then immediately get better and be stuck in hospital. I also had some doubts as to whether an ambulance would even come given some of the awful stories in the press and once I acknowledged that I needed an ambulance I would be waiting for it and if it didn't turn up….! About six minutes later I lifted my head to see if I was better but it was just as bad if not worse. About ten minutes later I heard footsteps come into the yard and then laughter. Although my back was to them I could hear the voices of a man and a woman chuckling. They obviously thought I was drunk.
"Are you ok?" the woman's voice asked.
"Um I'm ok thank you. Just had a dizzy turn and am lying here because the concrete is cool. I'll feel better in a sec."
"Do you want us to call an ambulance?"
"No of course not. Honestly, my friend is arriving in a minute," I lied, "and I'll soon be as right as rain. I'm just sorry that I can't give you my attention now".
"Oh that's ok. We just wanted to look around anyway. Do you want us to wait until your friend comes?"
"No I'll be fine, honest. Pop back next weekend perhaps when I'm better."
"Ok then, see you. Good luck", and off they went. I sighed and smiled to myself at the absurdity of it all.
Five minutes later another couple came in and the same question was asked. There was no laughter this time.
"I'm calling an ambulance", the woman said and she did. After a time taken to digest this information I spoke.
"What did you come in for?" I asked them as I lay there. The woman had covered the vomit in front of me with the rag I use for wiping off scumble glaze from our painted furniture and which also had considerable amounts of Briwax on it. I could smell porridgy vomit, toluene and scumble!
"We were looking for a log basket actually. Are you ok? Are you cold?"
I said I wasn't and there were some log baskets over there and I indicated and I said I was still hot and the concrete was cooling and thank you for your concern. She said they would take a look while they were waiting until the ambulance arrived or someone came to take care of me. Sweet lady I remember thinking.
Paramedics then arrived. Heavy and fast footed. I felt there immediacy. I was still in the same position I had been -turned away from the lean-to entrance.
"Well now what's up Pete?" one of them asked, bending closely over me. I wondered how he knew my name, "It's me David - my girlfriend used to keep her horse in your field, Viccy, d'yer remember?" He bent over and felt my pulse.
"Ah yes, of course David," I managed to say, suddenly feeling a bit cold, "how are you?"
"Oh I'm fine Pete, but what about you? How do you feel? What happened" He spoke gently and kindly but with authority.
The other paramedic was talking to the couple and I could hear them saying in low tones how they had found me and how there seemed to be no-one else about. David quizzed me on what had happened to me and I explained to him what I have written here. They then conversed together and the words 'inner-ear damag' were put forward by David as the probable cause of my condition. David told me an ambulance was coming from Worthing and would be here in about fifteen minutes. I then went icy cold and started shivering violently.
"Shock", I heard them whisper and they went into the office and came out with various rags and blankets and covered me with them. Time seemed to phase out at that stage and I must have drifted off to sleep but was awoken by the sound of the ambulance siren. There was considerable conversation when the ambulancemen arrived and I could ascertain that there were two paramedics, the couple for the log basket and the two new arrivals. I thought about stupid jokes like how many Irishmen does it take to change a light bulb and vaguely related it to my situation.
I was asked again by the chaps in the ambulance what had happened and I related the story for a second time. One said it was probably my inner ear and that though it felt dreadful it was not that serious. I retched violently and with disgusting volume and tone! They were very sweet, kind and felicitous to me despite this.
"We're going to put you on a stretcher now Pete", one said, "are you able to move yourself at all?" I said I was terribly sorry to be so pathetically helpless but I was actually quite incapable of any movement at all. They told me not to worry and got me with a little effort onto the stretcher and then covered me with clean blankets.
"How is he?" the log basket lady asked coming back into my field of hearing.
"I'm ok and doing fine!" I called out from the stretcher before anyone else could say anything, "did you find a log basket that you liked?" There was a general titter of laughter and some remarks about 'even trying to do a deal on a stretcher' but I couldn't raise my head such was the dreadful nausea and my vision - if I did - was still tilting just as it had before. I wondered if it was just my eyesight.
"Yes, there's one with a back attached to it, but don't you worry now we can come back when you're better."
"My dear lady", I said, "let's do a deal now while I can. You can have that basket for £75. It's all cast iron and in excellent condition. Just needs a few logs and it's off and running. It's a special offer to you on this peculiar special day!" I was I suppose trying to be jolly to stop myself worrying about the possible outcome to all this rather than desperate fo seventy five quid!
"Right, Pete! It's time to get off now" said ambulance man No 1, "you ready?"
I assured them I was and for the first time in my life I was lifted up on a stretcher and carried off to an ambulance.
The lady and her husband had left without buying the log basket and I felt a twinge of disappointment. I sometimes make these silly bets with myself which come into my head involuntarily like if I'm walking along the pavement I have to pass the next lamp-post before the next oncoming car does otherwise something will happen to me. It's ridiculous and I don't really mean it but I can't quite stop doing it. I'd half made a bet with myself that if the couple bought the log basket everything would be ok. In hospital the next day I was informed that I had had a stroke, not a minor one but a decent sized one.
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 GAZE RURAL AND DOMESTIC BYGONES SALE NEXT SATURDAY
Upcoming Xmas auction sales do not come much better than Gaze's November bygones sale. Amongst the 1,068 lots of farm bygones, hand tools, enamel signs, shepherdalia and a lot of other stuff beside.
The perfect gift for a rhubarb or kale grower? Gaze's has it - Lot 7012 Rhubarb forcer with lid for £100-£150. Is it a kale forcer? Does it matter?
Or for the avid flagger what better than an old but perfect all wood beadle, or is it, as Gaze says, a 'beetle' - lot 8001 at £10-£15? Does that matter either?
Or one for the those long winter evenings - lot 8418, a table top butter churn by J. J. Blow of Chesterfield c1940, as featured in Susan Ogilvy's seminal 1986 book 'Making Cheese at Home', a snip at £25-£40.
Lastly but not leastly, the ultimate xmas gift - lot 7253, a bright blue wooden sleigh complete with horse shafts and carriage lamps last used in 1947 estimated at £350-£525.
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LASSCO ON TV
National Geographic Channel (UK) is currently screening 'The Reclaimers' at the weekends. The twelve-part series was originally broadcast by the BBC six years ago and features LASSCO in various stories through many of the half-hour programmes. Much footage was shot at our former shop at St. Michael's Church, Shoreditch - prior to our big departure to The Three Pigeons in Oxfordshire.
The programmes are being shown around midday on Sundays in pairs (repeated at midnight). This weekend look out for Tony and Jesse (no longer with LASSCO) as they sell one of the monster British Library tables to Liberty's for it to be winched up through their central atrium to the top floor.
If you want to see some of the LASSCO staff looking even more youthful(!) there's a well-worn edition of Grand Designs still doing the rounds. Here the LASSCO St. Michael's shop is featured again in our bid to restore a smashed Regency marble fireplace and re-instate it in a Georgian house restoration in Islington. It has been shown many times in the past ten years - the sign-writing on that particular van has paid for itself many times over!
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 SUPPORT BIGREGIONAL'S ONE PLANET LIVING BID AT RIO+20
Salvo Code supporter, BioRegional Development Group, whose 'One Planet Living' idea has gained worldwide recognition, has submitted a proposal for one planet living at Rio+20 to the UN. This will be considered, along with many others, as potential content for the negotiating text. BioRegional would like to be able to tell the UN that as many people as possible support its proposal.
The United Nations Rio+20 Earth Summit taking place in June 2012, will be the most important sustainability event in 20 years. It is a rare opportunity for people around the world to have a conversation about sustainability, which could lead to renewed commitment and action for that better world we all want to see.
Here is what BioRegional says:
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Summary of our Proposal
The concepts and approaches of one planet living could be adopted or adapted as an effective way to achieve the objectives of Rio+20, which include renewing commitment to sustainability and a Green Economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication.
Our specific Proposals for this are that the UN works with civil society (that's all of us!) to:
1. Vision - Present a clear, simple, ambitious and positive vision of a better world which politicians and citizens can get behind, feel pride in and are motivated to achieve. We propose and offer one planet living as that vision, that is - a world in which we live happy, healthy lives within our fair share of the world's resources, wherever we live, and leave space for wildlife and wilderness.
2. Roadmap to achieve the vision - Based on our experience of using the one planet living approach and framework, which includes co-creating action plans using the ten principles of one planet living, we propose that at Rio+20 nations commit to creating and implementing Roadmaps and Action Plans to achieve the Vision supported by a set of simple Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's). We are suggesting that some nations prototype the plans ahead of Rio+20 to help others understand what is involved. The general idea of Roadmaps and SDG's has already picked up a lot of support. We propose that Plans are developed in a co-creation process with civil society and that they are needed at the appropriate levels: global, national, regional and local.
3. Support and guidance - From Intergovernmental Panels on Resources such as IPCC and IPBES offering science based advice, Solutions Bank of peer reviewed solutions measured against the SDG's, and education and training based on implementing the Vision and SDG's.
4. Remove barriers to sustainability - We have also made some sector specific proposals to address the barriers which we find are stopping us from implementing one planet living when we are working on it on the ground. These include Proposals on implementing renewable energy, human settlement, circular economies, biodiversity and natural capital, economic and monetary policies and institutional frameworks.
*Our proposal already has the support of Global Footprint Network, World Society for the Protection of Animals, Foster and Partners Architects and more.
**Pressure from civil society has just this week helped lead to the date of Rio+20 being changed so that it does not clash with the Queens Jubilee celebrations, meaning that it is easier for leaders of Commonwealth countries to attend. Public pressure works!
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Note: This year, BioRegional's founders won social entrepreneur of the year award at the World Economic Forum. BioRegional Reclaimed has worked with the salvage trade and Salvo in helping to promote the reclamation and reuse of demolition material since 2003, sponsoring and publishing Pushing Reuse by Thornton Kay and Jonathan Essex in 2009. Salvo helped source reclaimed material for BedZed in Surrey which houses BioRegional's office.
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 A SALVAGE CHRISTMAS LIST
Architectural salvage yards are a great place to find both useful and beautiful items for your home for Christmas. Whether you are refurbishing your home or looking for gifts, salvage yards offer many hidden gems. The lost art of craftsmanship can be found here - not bland mass-produced products made in China. The beauty of objects made to stand the test of time can be seen in the antique lighting, ornate ironwork, brass door furniture, ceramic tiles, colourful stained glass, carved wood and stoneware.
For those unique Christmas gifts you can start shopping from the comfort of your armchair by checking out the dealers on the Salvoweb home page. Click thru from the home page straight to the dealer websites and you will find some amazing ideas. My Christmas list now includes Victorian enamelled copper letters, St George brass hanging hook, Delft tiles, Art Nouveau fire screen, silver plated flower vase, French mirror, cast iron fire back, polished aluminium Ergon desk lamp and last but not least a romantic roll top cast iron bath with claw feet. Not all these items are expensive - the letters are only £2 each plus vat.
Visit the websites and be tempted out of your armchair to take advantage of the bargain offers, Christmas markets, auctions, coffee shops - some with Sunday opening hours make it easier to shop. Salvaged items are more individual and may sell before you get there, like the best Christmas gift for an over-bonused banker - a very rare late 17th century confessional from Wharton Antiques.
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CHURCHES CONSERVATION TRUST LAUNCHES WALLPAINTINGS WEBSITE
Catherine Piddington of the Churches Conservation Trust has launched a Wallpaintings Interpretation Project, which is an online resource dedicated to wallpaintings in English Parish churches.
"We had the great honour and delight of working with some of the most expert minds in their fields: Professor Paul Binksi, Dr Miriam Gill and Tobit Curteis," she writes. "This is the first website of its kind including clear, concise and accessible information on the history and development of wallpaintings, conservation techniques and challenges and the meaning behind wallpaintings. All are laced with stunning brand new photographs by Andy Marshall, some of which are zoomable so you can really see the detail."
The project can be explored at the link below. Be sure not to miss the interactive timeline or some of the wallpaintings that can be found in its estate.
Catherine Piddington would love to hear what readers think and encourages them to share this with friends and colleagues and anyone who they think may be interested.
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 BONFIRE NIGHT IN LEWES
Come the 5th November every year, me and my family march with the Cliffe Bonfire Society. This is a side effect of my wife being a fifth generation Lewesian and a pragmatic sense of You wont beat Them, so you might as well join Them.
The whole thing is often portrayed as a big anti-Catholic shindig. The No Popery banners and exploding Pope effigies don't help. Having grown up in Scotland with a certain amount of that The Future's Bright, The Future's Orange, this used to make me feel uncomfortable, but nowadays I'm OK. For a start I haven't found anyone who can definitely confirm for sure whether it's Pope Paul IV that's being burned in effigy, or Pope Paul V. (Number five was in charge when Guy Fawkes was caught and Number four was boss when the 17 Lewes Martyrs were burned.) And from what I can see, what motivates people to march isn't so much religious bigotry, more a sense of whimsical Englishness, tradition, socialising and drink.
Copying and Pasting ever so slightly, here's a quick resume of some of the grim details of the Marian Persecution… Basically, Derek Carver was burned alive in a barrel for the crime of reading a Bible in English.
On 22 July 1555, Derek Carver, was taken by his Catholic persecutors, to Lewes town centre to be burned outside of the Old Star Inn, where the Town Hall currently stands. His Bible was taken from him and thrown into a barrel on the pyre. The crowd called to him, pleading God to strengthen his resolve and his faith. He knelt down and prayed, but was then forced to climb into the barrel too.
Carver took his Bible and threw it into the surrounding crowd. His final words were: "Lord have mercy upon me, for unto thee I commend my spirit and my soul doth rejoice in thee!" His Bible was preserved and is on display in Lewes Museum today. Clear evidence of his blood splattered on the pages of Judges, Zephaniah and Ruth is a graphic reminder of his physical ordeal.
After four more burnings, the Bishop of London was still not convinced that heretics were being persuaded back to the Roman faith. So he arranged the largest bonfire of humans the town or indeed the country had seen. The ten hapless Protestants were: Richard Woodman, George Stevens, Alexander Hosman, William Mainard, Thomasina Wood, Margery Morris, James Morris, Denis Burges, Ann Ashdon and Mary Groves.
These, and the other seven victims of the Auto de Fe are commemorated by the Five bonfire societies carrying 17 barrels of burning tar and 17 flaming crosses.
Below is the 'Pope' part of the song we all sing:
A penny loaf to feed the Pope
A farthing o'cheese to choke him
A pint of beer to rinse it down
A faggot of sticks to burn him
Burn him in a tub of tar
Burn him like a blazing star
Burn his body from his head
Then we'll say old Pope is dead
Hip Hip Hoorah!
Hip Hip Hoorah!
Hip Hip Hoorah!
Haven't heard it on X Factor yet.
Of course after Mary Tudor was executed the boot was on the other foot and then it was Protestants killing Catholics. No-one commemorates them. This might be an idea for one of the other societies, maybe Southover, whose younger members over-compensate for having liberal, Guardian reading parents by throwing lots of bangers around.
And if you want a taste of what it's like marching in a Bonfire Society, see the You Tube link below.
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 MO BROS AT DREW PRITCHARD HELP SUPPORT MALE CANCER AWARENESS
The Mo Bros at Drew Pritchard Ltd have joined Movember, the international movement to raise awareness for prostate and other male cancers. So far 230,000 men have registered and over £5m has been raised.
The company Facebook page states:
'We are growing our Mos for charity. We will be banishing the razor and flexing our top lips for the fantastic charity you can read about below. Please give on line or register yourself online. I will be favouring the Gringo or Nick Cave look. We will post pictures once things get moving.
'Movember is responsible for the sprouting of moustaches on thousands of men's faces in the UK and around the world, the aim of which is to raise vital funds and awareness for men's health, specifically prostate cancer and other cancers that affect men.
'On November 1st, guys registered at Movember dot com with a clean-shaven face and then for the rest of the month, these selfless and generous men, known as Mo Bros, groom, trim and wax their way into the annals of fine moustachery. Supported by the women in their lives, Mo Sistas, Movember Mo Bros raise funds by seeking out sponsorship for their Mo-growing efforts.
'Mo Bros effectively become walking, talking billboards for the 30 days of November and through their actions and words raise awareness by prompting private and public conversation around the often ignored issue of men's health.
'At the end of the month, Mo Bros and Mo Sistas celebrate their gallantry and valour by either throwing their own Movember party or attending one of the infamous Gala Parties held around the world by Movember, for Movember.'
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 BBC AND NICK KNOWLES SEEKING ORIGINAL FEATURES RESTORERS
We have started filming the third series of 'Nick Knowles' Original Features' for the UKTV channel 'Home'. The series, presented by Nick Knowles, is looking for people who are renovating and restoring their homes back to their former glory. It might be just one room or the entire house; it might be an Edwardian semi, a 1960s bungalow or a Tudor mansion.
With expert advice on design and historians on hand, the homeowner will learn how to restore his or her property in keeping with the period and learn more about its history - Who lived there before? What was the house formerly used for? What is lurking under the floorboards or behind the plaster?
We are looking to find people who are already planning or perhaps have even started restoring their home. The sort of people we are interested in are those who want to bring back the look of the house from when it was first built or at least want to keep or restore the original features. Filming starts from November 2011-March/April 2012.
Hannah Legge
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BBC Bristol
Tel 0117 974 6875
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 THE OLD RADIATOR CO AND MASCO TEAM UP AS RECLAIM & REUSE LTD
The Old Radiator Company Ltd and MASCo Architectural Salvage, both major suppliers of quality reclaimed materials, have joined forces to form what will be one of England's leading retailers of architectural artifacts. Both companies will be trading under the newly formed umbrella company Reclaim & Reuse Ltd.
The Old Radiator Company Ltd, run by Andy and Fiona Triplow in Tenterden, Kent, has gone from strength to strength since its conception over eleven years ago. The company is one of Europe's leading suppliers of reclaimed and refurbished original cast iron radiators and has built up a stock and reputation which is unsurpassed.
MASCo Architectural Salvage, based in Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire, has been the supplier of outstanding reclaimed architectural features and traditional building materials for over the past twenty years and has grown to be a major player in the reclamation trade under the guidance of Steve Tomlin and Debbie Kedge. After much soul searching Steve feels it is now time to retire from the company enabling him to pursue his passion in sustainability consultancy and media work. We wish him the best of luck on his new path. Debbie, a great and respected asset to MASCo, has successfully run the yard for many years and will continue to do so.
Both companies will not outwardly change under the new umbrella of Reclaim & Reuse Ltd but combined will be a great strength in the industry and will compliment each other benefiting from a vast knowledge in the architectural and salvage business, bringing much advice and guidance to its customers.
MASCo will continue to source and supply a high standard of interesting reclaimed items with new stock arriving as we write. For further information or guidance on items to enhance your home or building project please contact MASCo by phone on 01285 760 886 or via our website.
The Old Radiator Company Ltd has a continually growing stock of over 4,000 original cast iron radiators. For advice or information about our radiators please call 01233 850 082, or visit our website.
Visit us at either yard and we will look forward to meeting you. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank our customers for their continued support during this exciting venture.
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Press Release 10 November 2011
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 A THOROUGHLY BRITISH ARCHITECTURAL SALVAGE SALE AT GAZE'S
"Drizzling, perfect weather," said Carl Willows about last Saturday's architectural salvage and garden statuary sale at Gaze's in Diss. "The sale had an interesting variety of lots. The trade to private bidders ratio was about fifty fifty - and was a good mixture with new trade faces, and privates new to the area who were buying well but selectively, and will be back. There was one American phone bidder, and no continentals - so it was a thoroughly British affair." The percentage sold by lot was somewhere around 80 per cent.
Top lots, tying at £1,400, were seven staddles and 25sqyds of 18thC oak floorboards.
The forthcoming rural and domestic bygones sale on Saturday 26th November has enamel signs, shop cabinets and packaging, interesting lighting, a sleigh, fruit crate and chitting boxes, as well as the usual sort of mix.
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 AESTHETIC BRONZE CHAIRS SELL FOR $16,000 AT KAMELOT
A pair of Aesthetic movement bronze chairs, c1890 by Charles Parker Co, were top lot at Kamelot's 744 lot architectural antiques, industrial and Victoriana sale on 22 October, selling for $16,000 (est $1,200-$2,400). Charles Parker Co of Meriden, Connecticut, were art brass and lighting makers, whose aesthetic period work included chinoiserie effects in silver gilt and brass or bronze similar to the circular splats on these chairs.
Lot 709, a set of four leaded vortex clear embossed pattern glass sashes, four by five feet, sold for a four times estimate $4,800. Lot 8a, a run of 45ft of Victorian walnut dado wainscot sold for a four times estimate $4,400. Lot 9, a rare nickel over brass rib cage shower c1900 sold for $3,200 (est $800)
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 PANTHEON OF GREEK GODS FAMILY TREE
A visual family tree of the panoply of Greek gods, from Chaos to the Olympians and beyond, appears on a handy webpage with a graphic made from a PowerPoint file created by Ivan Kozik, a USA programmer, using Wikipedia as the source information.
The ppt file can be downloaded, amended and resent to Ivan for uploading.
I looked into adding Daemons, and in particular Agathodaemon - spouse of Tyche, but on a Mac using Keynotes I could not find room and thought that changing it from .ppt to .key and back again was impolite as that could introduce formatting problems.
STOP PRESS: Ivan has just given permission for SalvoNEWS to turn this into a collaborative Google Doc which can appear on the web, all of which should happen soon.
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 BRAD GUY'S ACADEMIC TAKE ON U.S. ARCHITECTURAL SALVAGE
How did he end up being one of the USA's most prominent building salvage gurus? Brad Guy originally trained as a dancer and theatre designer which was a kind of introduction into the field of architecture. He worked as an architect for five years after graduating but even here he eventually got disillusioned with mainstream design practice.
"If you're designing commercial buildings and shopping centres for a living, that's all great, but it didn't seem to be making the world a better place, so I went to the University of Florida to study green building. This was in the early 1980s and there were no established programmes at that time, so I spent a lot of time in the library and learned that green building was much more than passive solar design. I met a guy whose goal was to open a reuse store. His name was Kevin Ratkus and we worked to put together the first deconstruction research projects at the university taking apart several homes, and then tracking and analyzing the results."
Brad is now an assistant professor at the Catholic University of America in Washington DC teaching sustainable design to architecture students of which reuse forms a part. "Deconstruction: implications on design" is one of his classes focusing on deconstruction, design to reuse materials, and design for adaptability and disassembly. His students have a live project to deconstruct a rural church and design a new building on the same site using the recovered materials which will take place next summer.
He teaches his students about design for deconstruction (DfD) - using mechanical fixings instead of glues and composites, demountable elements and so on. But digging deeper, he sees it more important that buildings should be made adaptable than deconstructible. In fact, he is currently writing a new book on design for adaptability. The recently issued LEED for Healthcare now has a credit for Design for Flexibility.
"I certainly will be looking at issues such as bolts instead of glues, but I think where I am going is that it is a misnomer to talk about 'DfD', but we should use the concept to design adaptable buildings which can last a long time. It is true that you can deconstruct composites and certainly plastics, thermally and in other ways, but that is very energy intensive. I am not sure that technology will solve our problems with an assumption that we can continue to produce 'wasted' materials. We need to keep materials in circulation in society - as buildings in situ, and as a last resort, the building parts.
"We already have an unbelievably skewed social and economic system where we subsidise resource extraction, pollution and waste but we don't really subsidise human beings. We pay for education but we don't actually support the development of people. So we need social and fiscal structures using taxes, as an example, which incentivise reuse so that people who do it professionally are paid a living wage. So I hope we will develop better social technology. Maybe it will all get worse but we have to believe it will get better or we must ask the question why are we all even doing this? We are all in the same boat."
Interestingly in the UK DfD has been relatively well-funded while in the USA research grants for DfD are not so readily available even though there is a specialist interest in the field mainly from post-graduate students in Brad's experience.
There is some confusion on terms between USA and UK. In England 'architectural salvage' is a general term which can mean old building material, fixtures and fittings. In USA 'reclaimed building material' means any product such as a fireplace and is not exclusive to things like bricks, walling stone, roof tiles and floorboards. 'Architectural salvage' mainly means fixtures and fittings but not 'reclaimed building material' which is the term used in the UK. 'Remanufactured' or 'reclaimed' is the term used for beams 'resawn' for flooring, which is also used in the UK although Salvo prefers the use of the term 'recraft' which suggests an element of low tech machine and hardworking rather than an industrial process.
Brad Guy thinks that reuse of surplus new material is as valid as reuse of old material. "Where do you draw the line?" he said. "Materials that are intended for use yet do not make it into a building will by default probably be disposed of, so their 'reuse' is also valid along with materials recovered from buildings."
He is on the US Green Building Council LEED Materials and Resources Technical Advisory Group which is responsible for points related to materials use and C&D waste management and has introduced an option of one point for reducing the amount of waste generated to begin with in new construction. (LEED is the USA points system for accrediting new buildings for sustainability.)
If approved for LEED 2012, a commercial new building construction - excluding site clearance, topsoil, vegetation or anything beyond the building's footprint - will qualify for one point if no more than 2.5 lbs/sqft is generated by the project. Before this, a LEED building project could create an unlimited amount of waste for which a measurement was then made for the percent which was diverted from landfill. The average new building in the USA currently creates about 4 lbs/sqft of waste.
Brad looked at other construction waste systems around the world, including BRE's SmartWaste in the UK, which he has communicated to the USGBC and others as models for tracking construction waste.
The social housebuilder and entrepreneur, Habitat for Humanity International*, which has 700 or more ReStores across USA and Canada, largely relies on the disposal of surplus and used materials which provide an easy and convenient route for LEED building projects to achieve better waste management scores.
"This may not be perfect," said Brad, "but it does make the best of a bad situation. Otherwise this stuff would be sent to landfill. Materials are cheap, labour is expensive. Projects don't care if they buy twenty per cent more than they need because it is more convenient to have the stuff on site rather than running out and having to go to the local store to buy more. Time is worth more than the cost of the materials."
In 2006 Guy co-wrote the book 'Unbuilding' with another USA deconstruction and reuse luminary, Bob Falk. This looks at every aspect of deconstruction from a technical viewpoint, giving the DIY unbuilder everything they need to know about dismantling a simple old timber frame house. Guy is writing another book with the working title 'Design for Adaptation and Deconstruction' which will include information on the environmental implications of reuse for which he is currently seeking case studies, particularly those which are inspirational rather than mainstream.
In Unbuilding, Guy mentioned time spent living in Morocco. Did this have an influence? "Oh yeah, big time," he said. "You can't live across the street from a shack made of corrugated iron and cardboard without it affecting you. It taught me three fundamental things: one, the US is not the best country in the world, a lot of people hate the US and it's really not that big a deal to be American. Secondly there are unbelievable defences - cultural religious and economic - which every American child could do with learning; there are places in the world that are so different. Thirdly, it showed me the resource difference - you see true poverty."
Interestingly, Guy's class at the Catholic University in Washington has an international outlook, with Saudi Arabian and Algerian students.
Guy also teaches deconstruction to teams of young people who have joined the Americorps National Civilian Community Corps - a domestic version of the Peace Corps which is a government volunteer organisation that allows students to undertake community projects in return for a $5,500 grant towards student fees. Americorps NCCC helped clear up after Hurricane Katrina and also works with Habitat for Humanity around the USA.
Is deconstruction commercially viable in the USA? "On average it is not typically economical except for specific building types and specific materials - such as lumber (timber at least 6ins deep by 6ins wide). Many of projects are one-offs or pilot projects dependent on social funding and tax deductions. What level of deconstruction is systemic? If you do twenty million one-off case studies, at least there would be a lot of awareness. Five years ago around forty percent of salvage was non-profit and that figure has now increased to at least equal profit to non-profit. The recession has affected the building industry but even so sales of surplus and used material have done well in the not-for-profit sector but deconstruction is getting harder and people are shutting down deconstruction projects and laying people off. There is also less demolition because there is less new building overall in these economically difficult times. The cost of deconstruction is so high and you are back to the economics. It's feasible to salvage something which turns a profit, that applies to around ten percent of the material arising from deconstruction. But the other ninety percent of the material - that's not doing so well for reuse at the moment."
Habitat for Humanity, a religious organisation which now operates in over 100 countries, states: 'ReStore resale outlets provide an environmentally and socially responsible way to keep good, reusable materials out of the waste stream while providing funding for Habitat's community improvement work.' Guy wonders why HfH sells surplus material and then buys new materials for its own housing projects. "It sells materials that are donated to it for 50 cents on the dollar and then spends that money buying new material at full price," he said. "This doesn't make any sense when HfH could use the donated materials in its own housebuilding projects - which would make the materials in effect free - and show one true promise of materials reuse in the production of new and renovation housing."
Brad Guy was interviewed by TK in Central Park, New York in September 2011
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 SPLENDID POT POURRI AT GAZE'S ARCHITECTURAL SALVAGE AUCTION ON SATURDAY
Apart from the 933 lots of York flagstones, oak doors, compo statuary, lighting, brassware, and garden perquisites, the forthcoming salvage sale at Gaze's in Diss on Saturday, also has a rare pair of compo zodiac garden seats (est £150-£200), a heavy Cartwright office floor-standing safe complete with key, an Arts & Crafts Edwardian or later half-timbered wooden house porch (est £650-£975) for placement on brick plinth walls, a marble fountain supported by a pre-raphaelite-looking carved mendicant or vagabond (est £7,000-£9,000) and a wacky circular cast iron radiator topped by a floriate Doulton bowl (est £200-£300).
Telephone Carl Willows or Rob Kinsella 01379 650306.
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 OBITUARY: SARAH WOLFE
We regret to announce the death of Sarah Wolfe who died unexpectedly on the 17th September. She was partner to James Yarrow of Asianart Ltd, Honiton. Her work as an artist (Sarah Durston) hangs in the numerous redevelopment projects that she was involved in with PCDG Mitchells and Butlers.
Asianart Ltd have been exhibitors at Salvo Fair since 2009.
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 COLIN FIRTH'S ECO GUILT AND LIVIA ON A GREEN RED CARPET ECO AGE WEBSITE
"If there's one bit of red carpet tyranny we'd love the Green Carpet Challenge to dispense with," writes Livia Firth on her newly launched website, Eco Age, "it's the idea that no two women must ever be seen in the same dress. In many ways this dictat just plays into the whole consumer churn and fast fashion cycle that we're trying to avoid. So we say why on earth not? When you've got a great designer, and a great piece, shouldn't that piece be outed as many times as possible?"
The website is about support for sustainable luxury fashion which reuses, cares for the environment, and lasts the distance of time instead of contributing to the throwaway age. At the Venice Film Festival, Livia wore a 50s inspired dress which she designed with Yoox and was made by upcycling specialists Reclaim-to-Wear. Look out for this Italian social justice enterprise which will be launched in December.
Other contributors raise environmental issues. Lucy Siegle in 'Handbags at dawn' considered the link between fashion and deforestation. The National Wildlife Federation encourages leather production free from this link. She concluded: watch this space. In fact the website is definitely worth watching for environmentally aware fashionistas.
Husband Colin Firth discusses eco-guilt and his love of gadgets in 'View from the naughty step.' "I am not seduced by all gadgets. I believe that I may have, for example, one of the oldest television sets in the western world. I just have no interest in acquiring a new one. But I should also come clean. In common with millions of other technology consumers I have been seduced by one particular brand - yes, the one with a fruit related logo . . . It's not wrong to want beautiful things. On one level these gadgets and access to them are a real joy of contemporary life. Unfortunately there's a very ugly by-product." [Although he does not get round to telling us what that is - Ed]
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