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FRI 4 APRIL 2008: TRADE INVITATION TO DREW PRITCHARD SALE PREVIEW EVENING
Dealers planning on attending Drew Pritchard's sale on Saturday 5th April, are invited to a preview evening on Friday 4th April from 5pm to 7pm.
Drew says "Everybody is welcome. We'll have drinks and food. Give us a call on 01492 580890 if possible, or just turn up."
Address: Drew Pritchard Ltd, Llanrwst Road, Glan Conwy, LL28 5TH.
Tel: 01492 580890
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NEIL WILSON SEEKS AUCTION INTEREST
In the near future Neil Wilson of Wilson Reclaims in Norfolk hopes to be holding regular architectural and reclaimed building material auctions from his yard near Thetford.
Any one interested in putting stock in please contact Neil Wilson;
Telephone: 01842 827451 or 07960 080216
Email: wilsonreclaims@fsmail dot net
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 ESALVO FRIDAY 19 OCTOBER 2007
Baptist Tabernacle from Swindon to Swindon via Northants
ROD Bluh, Swindon council leader, has bagged a prominent piece of architectural stone salvage - the pedimented giant order colonnade of Swindon's old Baptist Tabernacle built in 1886. The bath stone building was demolished in 1978 and bought by Stanley Frost who had planned to use it to build a house in Malmesbury. He moved the 300 tonnes of stone portico to a field. After ten years had elapsed with no sign of a rebuild his son, Alan Frost, hawked the ensemble around west country salvage yards (I remember it being offered to Walcot in the 1980's - ed) and when there were still no takers he finally advertised it on SalvoWEB in 1996. Eventually Neill Taylor saw it and bought it, moved it to Northants, and set about trying to get planning permission for it to be adapted as a house. Then a shopping centre planned for Swindon needed a centrepiece and Rod Bluh heard about it, contacted Mr. Taylor and persuaded his fellow councillors to dig deep. Neill Taylor was paid £340,000 and the whole shabang was moved back to Swindon - or Wroughton Airfield to be precise. "I was sorry to see it go," Neill said. "Since buying it seven year's ago, after finding an old ad at the back of SalvoWEB, I have moved it around my yard three times and come to know it intimately. But I am very happy that it will be rebuilt in Swindon." Neill Taylor, a developer who has used a good deal of salvage over the years, is now thinking about seriously going into salvage himself by starting a yard.
Source find new premises
ROD Donaldson has bagged a prominent acre site in central Bath with a dozen big workshops, which he is currently refurbing prior to relocating Source's English Rose antique kitchen empire, so he has workshops and showrooms on one site. "It all happened recently at a fiftieth birthday party," Rod said. "Don Foster (Bath's MP) asked 'How's it going?' and I said it would be fine if I could find a decent premises, so he called over the owner of this site and we did a deal. It suited him to have a tenant as the place was getting vandalised." So that's how to do it. Source now has a five year lease on the entire Victoria Park Business Centre.
D & P Theodore certified with Green Dragon EMS
D & P THEODORE Sons and Daughters Building Salvage and Reclamation, aka The Chimneypot Man, of Bridgend, Glamorgan, is one of a thousand Welsh businesses who have been certified by Groundworks with their new Green Dragon Environmental Management System. This requires businesses to be aware of the impact they have on the local and global environment, to keep compliant with legislation, to prevent pollution, and to be subjected to an annual review by Groundworks. Dennis Theodore writes, "Unfortunately, Green Dragon EMS is only available for the people from God's chosen country. There may be similar schemes elsewhere. It sounded time-consuming with a lot of paperwork but once we had started with the Groundwork Trust it required limited time from Pat and myself over four visits and we now have a nice certificate, a little paperwork and an annual visit."
Dorset recycled wood exported to Germany
ECO Sustainable Solutions Ltd, aka Eco-Composting, has sold 2,000 tonnes of woodchips from Dorset waste transfer stations to one of the 50 waste-to-energy biomass plants in Germany where it will provide enough energy to power 5,000 homes for six weeks. Eco Composting has applied for planning to build a £7 million biomass plant at Parley which would a first for the UK and would generate 2.7MW from 25,000 tonnes of wood a year. (We have asked what percentage of the wood was demolition timber which could have been reused, or how much energy it took to chip the wood and transport it to Germany. The company are looking into it and will get back to us.)
AUCTIONS
Architectural salvage Diss Norfolk, 20 October 2007, T W Gaze. Tel 01379 650306.
Stained glass from St Paul's Denholme, 5 December 2007, Hartleys. Tel 01943 816363.
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 DREW MAKEPEACE ART FROM SCHOOL GYMNASIUM DEMOLITION
Drew Makepeace; British Columbia, Canada
A dance studio floor salvaged from a school gymnasium, and re-assembled as an art instillation. The re-assembling of the wooden slats has resulted in the funky colourful pattern.
(Images from Wendy Roth)
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 TONY DELEO DIES
TONY Deleo, owner of Tony's Architectural Salvage, in Old Towne, Orange, California, died in May of multiple myeloma. He was 65. He came from Brooklyn and at 20 was a dealer in truck salvage in Queens, New York. After the snows of 1967 he and his family moved to California, where he continued in truck salvage until selling up in 1994 to create 'Anthony's Fine Antiques', an upmarket antiques store stocked with antiques from France and Argentina, but which eventually folded. Undeterred, he set up Tony's Architectural Salvage on the back of a $20,000 purchase of salvage from Oklahoma.
Tony DeLeo was a gruff but gregarious salvage man. Orange antiques dealers, Bill Kottler said, "He loved the wheeling and dealing part of the junk business. He loved the chase, the negotiating and playing around. And he was good at it." He sold Tony's Salvage in May. Mr. DeLeo had four daughters, and eight grandchildren. His wife, Regina, died three years ago.
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 TUESDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2007: CEASAR HUT TO BE AUCTIONED FOR CHARITY
Dear Salvo,
We have an original 19th century Caesar hut that we are donating to auction in hope of raising funds for an eco-project run by local school children. We discovered the wooden hut during a garden clearance. It was built over 100 years ago by Knutsford carpenter Henry Caesar and his son Julius.
The auction will take place on the 11th September and is being held by Marshall's Auctioneers, Knutsford, Cheshire, who are auctioning the hut free of charge.
The eco project is like a mini-version of the Eden Project in Cornwall and we are hoping to raise £7000 for Sandiway Primary School towards this. We feel it is a more than worthy cause as it gives the children a great opportunity to be part of something unique in the county and therefore it would be greatly appreciated if anybody could donate or bid. We can accept payments via Paypal and cheque.
If you require any further information, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Regards,
PAST
Plumley Architectural Salvage Traders, Cheshire, UK. Tel: 01565 722751
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SITE WASTE MANAGEMENT PLANS AND BUSINESS SUPPORT WORKSHOP
Warrington, Cheshire Uk - Envirolink Northwest's Recycling and Waste team has launched a Waste Initiatives Network, designed to share best practice, encourage recycling and support business growth amongst the Northwest waste collectors. Joining the network, and attending the workshops, is free to recycling and waste businesses in the Northwest.
They have 2 events running on the 20th September or the 26th September.
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RECLAIMED PRODUCTS GUIDE
WRAP (Waste Resources Action Programme) have commissioned a piece of work titled "Preparation of a guide to procuring reclaimed building products and materials for use in construction projects". BioRegional have been appointed to complete this piece of work. The Reclaimed Products Guide will be produced as a parallel document to the Guide to the Recycled Content of Mainstream Construction Products.
The Guide will contain product pages containing information on typical costs, availability, applications, issues/constraints etc as well as suppliers. It will cover approximately 40 reclaimed building products. The target audience is designers, architects and contractors.
Please get in touch if you supply reclaimed materials.
Liz Darley, London South West, UK. Tel: 02084045041
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 FLAGSTONE RECORD AT GAZE'S
'THERE was light drizzle all day,' Carl Willows said, referring to the architectural salvage sale of T W Gaze at Diss on 18 August 2007, 'but stock market jitters seemed to be having a discernible impact, even though garden benches which had been struggling at other Gaze sales this year went very well, one lot of York stone flagstones sold for £145 which broke our auction flagstone record, and a Victorian marble bath used by young Japanese ladies doubled its estimate to become the sale's top lot at £5400 inc premiums and vat selling to the UK trade with a US underbidder.'
At a time when Christie's has shunted its buyer's premium to 25 per cent, and many provincial UK auction houses have pushed theirs up to 15 per cent, Gaze has this year held its buyer's premium at 10 per cent. It's seller's premium is 10 per cent on lots up to £500, and 5 per cent above that.
The next Gaze sale is the Rural and Domestic Bygones on Saturday 8th September at which Mr Willows says, 'There will be the usual old mix . . . and this time some nice handcarts consigned by Mr. Peter Watson of Cox's Yard in Gloucestershire.'
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RECLAMATION RED CARD TRAINING DAY
Masco have kindly offered to organise a Construction Skills Red Card Traning Day for reclamation and salvage on CDM demolition sites from 8.30am-5pm on Monday 24th September 2007 at Fromebridge Mill, Whitminster off J13 M5 4mls south of Gloucester. Tests, lasting an hour per candidate, will be held on Tuesday 25th September from 8.30am to 2pm
Red Card training consists of four parts:
1. Demolition safety awareness (4hrs)
2. Asbestos awareness (4hrs)
3. Individual test (1hr)
4. Touch screen CSCS Health and Safety test (1hr at any driving test centre)
The first three parts will be carried out by the NFDC training team, but
part 4 must be taken at a driving test centre.
Training for up to 25 people. Parts 1 and 2 will be held Mon 24 Sept. Part 3, a 1 hour individual test, will be held the following day on Tues 25 Sept.
The cost will be £175 per person. Successful candidates will be given the Red Card after they have completed part 4, a 1hr CSCS construction health and safety touch screen test. This can be taken at any UK driving test centre and costs an additional £17.50. The Red Card will be valid for five years.
If you, or your staff, would like to book a place on the training session please contact Janet Hancock of Masco on 01285 760886 or email masco@catbrain. com
Accommodation is available at Fromebridge Mill, Fromebridge Lane, Whitminster GL2 7PD tel 01452 741796, or at a nearby Travel Lodge tel 0871 984 6054.
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FULL TIME OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR
Drew Pritchard Ltd Glan Conwy, specialists in Stained Glass and Architectural Antiques currently seek a proactive office administrator with appropriate computer literacy, communication and phone skills. Previous experience essential in the maintenance and creation of computer filing systems, invoicing, book keeping, quotations and reception duties.
Starting salary £14,560 pa (depending on experience)
For job description and application form
01492 580890
info@ drewpritchard .co .uk
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GAZE 18 AUG: VICTORIAN POTS AND URNS
Diss, Norfolk UK - The forthcoming sale of architectural salvage and statuary at T W Gaze will include some unusual Compton Pots, 'elegant but in subdued way' said Carl Willows, some Doulton urns, Minton encaustic tiles, decent lead figures including a 1900's set of four seasons, a vaguely American under lifesize bronze lady with blooms, some good gates including Arts & Crafts Jekyll-style, and a load of oak and elm beams, some of them rescued by women from builders bonfires.
The auction catalogue will be out soon, but on Thursday at the latest.
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 BALTIC EXCHANGE SELLS TO ESTONIA VIA SALVO FAIR AND A SALVOWEB AD
THE Baltic Exchange has been bought via an ad on SalvoWEB for around the asking price of £750,000 from Extreme Architecture of Kent by two Estonian businessmen, Eerik-Niiles Kross and Heiti Haar, and has been shipped to Tallinn where it will be rebuilt as part of a prestige office and housing development.
"This is the largest chunk of architectural salvage to have found a home via the internet," said Thornton Kay, one of the two partners of Salvo Llp, the London and Bath based global information network for demolished buildings. "SalvoWEB was set up in 1994 and is the oldest salvage site on the web. We were there before Yell and eBay, and we still attract more visitors than either - around 14,000 a day - in our sector of the market."
"The 1902 Baltic Exchange in the City of London was where the world's shipping was handled inside a massive marble-clad trading hall with a classical frontage, which was photographed, marked up, carefully dismantled and trucked to warehouses in Reading after the blast from an IRA bomb knocked it off its footings in 1992. The plan was to rebuild it, but during that period the shipping floor became an anachronism, so after a lot of umming and ahhing the insurers were given permission to build what has become Norman Foster's iconic Gherkin on the site."
"Then English Heritage tried to sell the old building intact, but failed, so eventually it was put on the market and bought first by North Wales salvage dealer Derek Davies, who shipped the 50 or more artic loads from Reading to Cheshire. Derek advertised the Baltic Exchange in SalvoNEWS. Restorer and dealer Dennis Buggins, of Extreme Architecture in Kent, bought it from Derek and then moved the whole lot to various farm buildings and barns around Canterbury."
"Every year we hold the world's only architectural salvage fair at Knebworth in July, so last year Dennis booked the biggest stand at the fair and brought some of the Baltic Exchange, including the 40ft long stone pediment carvings. We commissioned performance artist Mark McGowan to highlight our 'Reclamation before Recycling' campaign, and he chose to do this by somersaulting from the Gherkin to Knebworth, which took him an arduous two weeks, arriving at Knebworth during the Salvo Fair."
"Salvo Fair is organised by Ruby Kay, my daughter, with the help of siblings Boz Kay, Beth Kay, Poppy Kay and Lily Kay, and of course me - the ageing Dad. The next one will be held next weekend (Fri 29 Jun trade day, and Sat 30 June and Sun 1 July), and we hope that it will not only encourage people to think about reuse of old building materials, rather than their destruction in landfill, but persuade them come and buy. Five hundred tons of materials will be available for sale on five acres of Knebworth's deer park just off the A1(M) in Hertfordshire. This year there will be a load of interesting stuff including parts of the old Royal Box at Ascot, flagstones from Paternoster Square and Lord Snowdon's London Zoo aviary, a possible Roman stone aqueduct from France, a pillar box from Mortlake, ten brutalist 1960's stone planters from Stevenage town centre, and even some bits of old Serbian smokehouses"
"Eerik-Niiles Kross, the Tallinn businessman and historian who at one time ran Estonia's secret service and represented Estonia at NATO talks, was trawling SalvoWEB on the internet for reclaimed flooring at the time of last year's Salvo Fair, and came across the ad for the Baltic Exchange. He is the son of one of Estonia's most famous authors, Jaan Kross, who was incarcerated as a patriot in 1944 by the Nazi's, before being captured by the Red army in 1946 and spending eight years in a Siberian gulag, only being allowed home when Stalin died."
"I had not realised quite how good the Estonians had become on the web. For example they invented Skype, and they are now the most informed state in Europe on state-wide ddos attacks after Russian government servers tried to bring their entire network down last year. This was after the Estonians moved a prominent Russsian war memorial into a cemetery, upsetting the Russians who live in Estonia."
"I guess that Kross and his partner, Heiti Haal, see the rebuilding of the Baltic Exchange in Tallinn as a kind of bricks-and-mortar political statement, establishing a feature building that not only creates another dimension to the architecture of Tallinn, much of which is Soviet, but also pointedly brings a physical part of the financial culture of the West bang up against the Russian border. The Baltic countries have put on a brave face against intimidation by the Russians for decades."
"Interestingly, the movement of reclaimed materials around Europe has been gathering momentum, in the UK partly due to the stupidity of the government spending hundreds of millions in the past ten years crushing bricks and chipping reusable demolition wood as mulch. The shortage of local materials means that we now import reclaimed flooring and bricks from Estonia, so it is fitting that we should export an architectural icon back to them. Although you could argue that it makes no sense in climate change terms to move materials long distances, moving old bricks 1000 miles by ship expends a fraction of the energy used in making new ones, so it is still beneficial to the environment. The UK salvage trade were world pioneers and are still, despite the difficulties, probably world leaders."
"We use 3,000 million new bricks a year in the UK, and we destroy 3,000 million old ones, and every 12 bricks embodies the energy of a gallon of petrol - so where's the logic of that? The UK salvage trade rescue around 130 million of these bricks, for which they receive no subsidy, while WRAP - the UK government quango - gives millions of pounds a year to help crush reusable old bricks. Ten years ago none were crushed, now probably 2 billion or more are crushed every year. We have written to successive ministers of state, including David Milliband, but without success. The government would be better off tipping the bricks whole into landfill, because then at least they could be mined and reused in 100 years time, and they would not be wasting the huge amount of fossil fuel that it takes to crush them all."
"Derek Davies and Dennis Buggins should be congratulated for their tenacity in taking on the Baltic Exchange project and successfully concluding it. Three times Dennis has nearly sold the Baltic Exchange, for a home in Long Island NY, for a housing and office scheme at Greenwich UK, and to the developers of London's Battersea power station. These two guys succeeded when the combined forces of the City of London, Swiss Re, English Heritage and UK conservation movement failed to achieve its relocation. At one stage it looked as if the fabulous marble would be turned into kitchen work surfaces, and the stone would be landfilled. Now at least the building has been kept intact and will be appreciated. When it is no longer required in Tallinn in a hundred years time, who knows, someone may buy it and bring it back to blighty!"
Thornton Kay
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 WINDOWS BUILT TO LAST
Dominique Clothier has launched a campaign web site against the needless trashing of old UK wooden windows, recommending that instead of replacing perfectly serviceable windows people should repair their old windows instead. The web site is called Built to Last, and contains simple advice, useful links and requests for news stories and case studies.
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 SALVO FAIR 2007 FAIR GUIDE
Salvo Fair guide (inc SalvoNEWS 265 Friday 22 June 2007)
Contents: Salvo Fair exhibitor list (so far), 300 handy hints for buying and using salvage, talks and workshops sponsored by Period Living magazine, and the text and illustrations of the talk by Julian Radcliffe, chairman of the Art Loss Register, about the role of the ALR, garden statuary architectural salvage and good title.
The other talks scheduled for the afternoon of the trade day at Salvo Fair on Friday 29 June are Nicole Lazarus of BioRegional Reclaimed on carbon footprints and reclaimed materials, a round table discussion on fair trade led by Peter Weldon and Karen Glen - and should it be a part of the new trade association, an update on BigREc Survey and standards of supply by Thornton Kay, a report on Deco07, the USA Building Materials Reuse Association's conference by Steve Tomlin. There may be a discussion about a roadmap for the launch of the UK architectural salvage trade association.
Download the colour version in Acrobat pdf format (link below).
The print version will be mailed to SalvoNEWS paper subscribers on Fri 22 Jun 2007.
A UK SalvoNEWS subscription is GBP50 (free to Salvo Code dealers) and includes access to SalvoWEB Trade Ads, SalvoEMAILS and a complimentary entry on the online Salvo Directory. Subscribers can receive just the print edition, or the pdf edition, or both. Overseas print copies are sent by surface mail to save energy.
PLEASE NOTE: Update on Red Card training day, Thursday 28th Jun at Knebworth, followed by testing and accreditation on Friday 29th Jun at Knebworth:
So far four people have booked to go on the inaugural 'Red Card' certificate of competence for reclamation and salvage operatives course set up by Martin Morrell of CITB and Howard Button of NFDC. Please book now by phone (020 8400 6222 or 01225 422300) or email thornton at salvoweb dot com if you or your staff would like to participate.
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JOBS AT THE BRE RESOURCE EFFICIENCY CENTRE
Vacancies at the BRE
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Two Positions within Resource Efficiency Centre
Salaries dependent on skills and experience
BRE is the UK's leading centre of expertise, providing consultancy, testing and research services across all aspects of the built environment. Our experts have extensive knowledge and experience of the complex issues associated with sustainable development at every stage, from design to demolition. The Resource Efficiency Centre undertakes consultancy and research on reclaimed building materials.
We work with developers and designers, clients and Government agencies on individual buildings, large developments and major regeneration schemes in all building sectors including education, health, retail and commercial. We also support a number of high-profile corporate clients in delivering their aims as sustainable businesses.
As a result of increased growth, BRE's Resource Efficiency Centre has two vacancies:
Graduate / consultant, Resource Efficiency Centre
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Enthusiastic, committed and capable graduate or consultant required to help deliver a high standard of project work within the Centre. You will have a construction, environmental or resource management related degree or similar qualification. Effective time and project management capabilities are imperative, as is data handling experience and report writing. Experience within the construction and/or resource management field is an advantage but not essential as training and mentoring will be provided.
Senior consultant, Resource Efficiency Centre
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Building specialist required with an interest in sustainability and the environmental performance of buildings. The successful applicant will have a construction, environmental or resource management related degree or similar qualification, supplemented by a solid understanding of the building design and construction process. You will be self motivated with good team working skills and the confidence to initiate a project and see it through to a successful completion.
Building professionals with 2-5 years practical experience will be considered. Preference will be given to applicants who can demonstrate strong project management and/or business development skills.
To apply for any of the above posts, please send your CV and covering letter stating which role you are interested in to: Mabel Udoh (udohm at bre dot co dot uk).
Email applications are preferred, however you may also apply by post to: Mabel Udoh, BRE Environment, Bucknalls Lane, Garston, Watford, Herts, WD25 9XX
Closing date: Friday 29th June 2007
BRE is an equal opportunities employer
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 RECLAMATION RED CARD DAY AT SALVO FAIR
The Construction Skills Red Card for reclamation and salvage on CDM demolition sites will be inaugurated on Fri Jun 29 2007 at Salvo Fair, Knebworth. Application forms will be available, and a representative of the NFDC (National Federation of Demolition Contractors) will be on hand to discuss how this will benefit salvage firms, their employees and any self-employed reclaimers.
The Red Card training consists of four parts:
1. Demolition safety awareness (4hrs)
2. Asbestos awareness (4hrs)
3. Individual test (1hr)
4. Touch screen CSCS Health and Safety test (1hr at any driving test centre)
The first three parts will be carried out by the NFDC training team, but part 4 must be taken at a driving test centre.
Howard Button, NFDC secretary, has kindly offered to arrange a training session at Knebworth during the Salvo Fair for up to 25 people. Parts 1 and 2 will be held on Thursday 28 June. Part 3, a 1hr individual test, will be held the following day on Friday 29 June, the Salvo Fair trade day.
The cost will be £165 per person. Successful candidates will be given the Red Card after they have completed part 4, a 1hr CSCS construction health and safety touch screen test. This can be taken at any UK driving test centre and costs an additional £17.50. The Red Card will be valid for five years.
If you, or your staff, would like to book a place on the Knebworth training session please contact Salvo on 020 8400 6222 or email thornton at salvoweb dot com
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MAY AUCTIONS AND FAIRS
THOS Wm Gaze & Sons in Diss, Norfolk, sale of architectural salvage and statuary will be held at 10am on 19th May, run by expert in charge Carl Willows, and this time round has a fine Arts & Crafts oak porch (est £200) among the 1,000 or so lots.
Sotheby's Billingshurst is apparently going to be turned into luxury flats and houses but before that it will host a spring sale on 22nd May of antique garden ornament, fossils and modern sculpture, and this time four olive trees in wood planters (est £4k).
Christie's South Kensington's Toby Woolley will sell a load of garden and architectural items collected by Mike Roberts on 23rd May, including terracotta, statuary, a large number of lanterns, and several fireplaces. The top ranked lot is a pair of Coade ovoid urn finials (est £20k).
Drewette Neate have a garden section at the Csaky house sale in Stockbridge, Hampshire, on 22nd May. Fleury Antiques, who have had a year's worth of sales, are now advertising a clearance sale on 15th and 16th May in Cahir, Co Tipperary, of decorative antiques probably including some architectural and garden. David Erquhart of Posterity in Herefordshire is having his annual auction on 20th May at 12.30pm. Watsons in Heathfield, East Sussex is holding a 500 lot sale of garden and architectural salvage and repro on 18th May. As if this is not enough, Swinderby is on 29th and 30th May, followed by Newark on 31st May and 1st June.
After a long absence (who knows what happened to Kevin Scott) Bonhams have decided to hold a garden sale on 6th June and an architectural sale on 21st July in Henley.
Chelsea Flower Show is being held from 22nd to 26th May and will feature, among others no doubt, Mike Corbett and Triton UK's collection of unique and replica garden ornament, Ed Holloway unrolling the Agos range, Alex Puddy with the antique and new garden ornament of Architectural Heritage, Bulbeck and H. Crowther. Not sure if Hughie Powell and Cotswold Decorative Ironwork will be there this year.
Last but not least, LASSCO Three Pigeons is holding a dealer swap shop sponsored by TVADA but open to all-comers in the car park of its new ex-pub premises at Milton Common in Oxfordshire on Friday 18th May from 12pm to 3pm.
Gaze auctions and other paying advertisers are listed on the Salvo Auction & Event Calendar (see link below)
Brief reports or photos (please ask permission) would be appreciated of any event for future inclusion in SalvoNEWS
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 SALVONEWS 264 TUESDAY 1 MAY 2007
ALAN Powell obituary, Dyfed sale, reclamation 'Red Card', ancient aqueduct at Salvo Fair, Trade Association letters and questionnaire, new CDM regs, Drummonds dry frit, Pine Supplies saw tech masterclass, snippets and theft alerts
This SalvoNEWS is available free on SalvoWEB because it contains the link to the Trade Association questionnaire in which the whole UK trade is invited to participate.
Download the colour version in Acrobat pdf format (link below).
The black and white printed version was mailed to SalvoNEWS paper subscribers on Sat 28 April 2007.
A UK SalvoNEWS subscription is GBP50 (free to Salvo Code dealers) and includes access to SalvoWEB Trade Ads and SalvoEMAILS. Subscribers can receive just the print edition, or the pdf edition, or both. Overseas print copies are sent by surface mail to save energy.
STOP PRESS: Posterity will be holding an auction on Sun 20th May. Tel 01531 636380
ADVERTISE IN THE NEXT SALVONEWS DUE OUT AT THE END OF MAY: The next edition of SalvoNEWS will be the Salvo Fair colour edition and is likely to have a combined print and web circulation in excess of 40,000 copies. Please contact Thornton 020 8400 6222 or Ruby 01225 422300 if you would like to advertise. Current advertisers will of course be included. New advertisers can have display ads only, either 92mm wide by 133mm high for £120 plus vat, or full page A5 for £240 plus vat.
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 ROBERT MILLS IN CHARITY PEW HOT COALS RESCUE
COLIN Scull and Paul Nash will be performing a feat of derring-do to raise funds for the Penny Brohn Cancer Care charity (formerly Bristol Cancer Help Centre) on Thursday 19 April at the Full Moon pub, North Street, Stokes Croft, Bristol BS1 3PR at 7.30pm.
They will attempt to carry a church pew over a 20ft bed of 1200 degF hot coals, in their bare feet. Well-wishers, curious bystanders and foot therapists are welcome to come along to the Full Moon and cheer them on.
Please make donations in the form of cheques payable to Penny Brohn Cancer Care and send to c/o Robert Mills Ltd, Narroways Road, Eastville, Bristol BS2 9XB
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SAT 14 APRIL 2007 GRAHAM WHITE RETIREMENT SALE
To be held at South Holdridge, North Molton, South Molton, EX36 3HG on Saturday 14 April 2007. Genuine retirement sale of architectural antiques, collectables, building materials and engineering equipment.
Including period fireplace surrounds in marble, stone, slate, cast iron inserts, fire backs, dog grates, approx 100no period doors, oak beams, roof slates, ridge tiles, building stone, approx 30no stone troughs, 2no pairs of 7ft granite coloumns with capitols and pediments, oak panelling, Coalbrookdale bench, cider press and more. Equipment includes power hacksaw, flypress, part milling machine, plus contents of fireplace restoration workshop with table saw.
Auction held by Stags, 19 Brompton Street, Tiverton, Devon, UK.
Office telephone 01884 255533 or Stafford Sampson 07970 089534.
No Catalogues. 10% premium charged on all lots £2,000 and under + vat.
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SAT 24 MARCH DYFED CLEARANCE SALE
GILES Chaplin of Dyfed Architectural Antiques has sold his town centre premises in Haverfordwest, Dyfed Wales, and is holding a clearance auction sale of his entire indoor stocks on Saturday 24 March 2007 at 11am.
"The chapel has been sold to be converted into nine flats," Giles said, "so everything must go. There will be lots of smaller architectural stuff like doors and door furniture, bathrooms, fireplaces, bric-a-brac and bits and pieces."
The auctioneers are Clynderwen Auctions, tel 01437 563392, or contact Giles Chaplin on 01437 760496.
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HALF PRICE RECLAIMED DOOR SALE
Cox's are having a SALE of RECLAIMED DOORS
50 percent off all marked prices!!
4, 5 and 6 panel, arched, planked, 1930's, internal, external, 1/2 glazed, cupboard etc, etc.
1st - 28th February 2007 at their Moreton in Marsh warehouse.
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NEW TV PROGRAMME SEEKS RESCUED BUILDING STORIES
Dear Salvo
As the producers of 'Grand Designs', Channel 4 have commissioned Talkback Thames to make a series called 'Grand Designs: Trade Secrets' which will air on their new digital channel More4 straight after the C4 show ends, hostted by Kevin McCloud. It's going to be a studio- based magazine style show where a panel of architects take on interesting topics from the main series and we take a closer look at the aspirations, influences and trials and tribulations of the people involved in the build of their dream home.
Alex and Cheryl Reay realised their dreams when they left London and bought a romantic chocolate box 17th century cottage in the New Forest. After considerable renovation work and just three days before the birth of their first child, a fire broke out in the chimney destroying the thatch roof all the way through to ground floor level. To make matters considerably worse, their buildings insurance had lapsed and both Alex and Cheryl were out of work. In spite of this nightmare they decided to stay and rebuild their cottage, thatch and all.
We'd like to do a feature on other people who have saved buildings which looked beyond rescue or could have been abandoned in situ (fire, flood, soil erosion, forced moves because of runways, highways, reservoirs etc.) - do you know of any such stories? Are you in contact with companies which salvage entire buildings, frames etc. and give them a new lease life?
I hope to hear from you or anyone else this may be of interest to.
With thanks,
Judith Parker
More4: Grand Designs
T: 01494 733 610
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SALVOEMAILS REPLY PROBLEM
Barry from Bygones in Kent has kindly messaged us about a current problem replying to SalvoEMAILS. He says:
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You seem to have a small problem with your login script, upon first visiting the site (or clearing your site cookies) (in Firefox 1.5.0.6) clicking the "login" link directs me to http ://user.php?login_user=1&login_user=1&/?cookieistested=1 obviously it is missing your domain in the header redirect (I would imagine you are missing $_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"] or something to that effect from the code) but still issuing the cookie to the browser.
By pressing the back button and clicking the "login" link the site then returns the correct login page as I am assuming the condition of the cookie existing is now true.
Barry, Webmaster, Bygones.net
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Thanks Barry. Boz will be back in on Monday and will fix the problem then. Meanwhile I shall post your message on our 'server status' web page.
Thornton, SalvoWEB
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PERIOD LIVING MAGAZINE SALVAGE FEATURE
PERIOD Living magazine intends to start producing a new architectural salvage feature, by writers like Jesse Carrington of Lassco, which will include a showcase page of nine trade display ads.
The magazine is being relaunched following its sale to Centaur, publishers of 'Homebuilding & Renovating' and 'Move or Improve', and the new salvage pages will appear in a new renovation section in the new format mag.
The salvage showcase ads page is intended for dealers in architectural and garden antiques, reclaimed building materials and salvage, and Salvo Code supporting repro businesses.
Period Living has offered to underpin these ads with a promotion of the Salvo Code and inclusion of the crane logo on supporters ads. We are sure this promotion by PL will generate more awareness of the Salvo code and more sales for supporters, in what has been one of the key magazines of choice for trade advertisers ever since the 1980's.
Contact Emma Farrington to advertise on 020 7970 4421.
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SERVER MOVE
Dear Salvoweb Users,
The new server is now up and running.
The users control panel is now online.
If you find any problems on the website please contact Salvo.
Thanks,
Boz Kay
The Salvo Team
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SALVOWEB OFFLINE MONDAY 7TH AUGUST
IMPORTANT message for SalvoWEB users
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Between 9am - 11am Monday 7th August 2006 the old SalvoWEB server will be turned off, the data will be trasnferred and a new improved and bigger server will be turned on. This will mean that for a short time none of the SalvoWEB sites, nor those hosted by Salvo will be available.
The timetable for events is as follows:
Monday 7th August 2006
0900 BST: Old server turned off, data transferred, email addresses transferred. NOTE: No emails will be 'lost' during the transfer.
1100 BST: New server turned on, all web sites will be back up and running but no changes can be made by users, no new items and no deletions.
NOTE: User control panels will be out of action today. There may be short web outages during server restart and tweaking.
Tuesday 8th August 2006
1700 BST: Control panels will be turned back on, with everything functional.
NOTE: User control panels will be out of action until 5pm. There may be short web outages during server restart and tweaking.
Wednesday 9th August 2006
Normal service is resumed.
The timetable above is notional. We hope the transition will be quicker. We are upgrading our server software, operating system and database software at the same time, so there may be hidden issues which will need to be resolved.
We apologise for any incovenience caused during the installation of this new main server at Rackspace. Our current main server is handling an average of 15,000 visitors a day and the images files are very much bigger than they used to be, both of which cause a much bigger load than previously. Hopefully this server should see us through another two years of steady growth.
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ARCHITECTURAL TREASURES KENT OPENING PARTY
Architectural Treasures in Kent are having a grand opening on Friday 14th July from 3pm.
You are cordially invited to our showroom at The Old Garage, Smarden road, Pluckley, to view our wide selection of architectural salvage including stained glass victorian doors, belfast sinks, york stone, cast iron fireplaces, old cast iron radiators, stone pier caps, roof finials, stone wellheads and much more.
Any questions please call us on 01233 713668
Thank you.
Jo Downs
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RECLAIMED 19THC CANADIAN WOOD STOCKISTS SOUGHT
CANSOURCE is a small export company that over the past twenty years or so has been involved in exporting agricultural commodities, such as grain, hay and kelp, from Canada to the USA, Caribbean, Europe and Middle East. Recently, appreciating the enormous number of old-style bank barns that are either falling down or being demolished, Cansource has started shipping quality aged timber to Texas and Arizona, and is now exploring potential markets in Europe.
This 19th century timber - oak, elm, birch, maple, hornbeam, fir and various pines - which comes in either crude sleeper, board or broad axe hewn beam form, is in excellent condition: suitable for the restoration of churches and old buildings and/or the rustification of new. And, with dimensions up to 40ft long by as much 15ins by 15ins, the unlimited supply is rare today.
Cansource is looking for distributors who are prepared to take delivery of full 40ft container loads at a time, which, according to specific orders, will mean from 1200-1500 cu.ft. per load.
Pricing will be determined by the volume ordered and terms of payment.
Contact Robin Dawson at CANSOURCE in Canada by emailing rddcan at sympatico dot ca, telephone 416-929-8617, fax 416-929-4278. Telephone in the UK 01608682208.
Robin Dawson will be in England from Tuesday, July 25th. to Monday, August 7th. and will be available to meet any interested parties during this time.
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 SALVONEWS 259 TUESDAY 27TH JUNE 2006
Salvo Fair edition, exhibitors, safety, talks and workshops.
Download the colour version in Acrobat pdf format (link below)
The black and white printed version was mailed to SalvoNEWS paper subscribers on Monday 26th June together with free tickets to the trade morning on Friday 30th June.
A UK SalvoNEWS subscription is GBP50 (free to Salvo Code dealers) and includes access to SalvoWEB Trade Ads and SalvoEMAILS. Subscribers can receive just the print edition, or the pdf edition, or both. Overseas print copies are sent by surface mail to save energy.
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STRATEGIC APPROACH TO CONSTRUCTION WASTE - QUESTIONNAIRE
Gilli Hobbs
Watford
23rd June 2006
Dear All
We are undertaking a one year pilot project which aims to provide guidance to the BREW programme on future actions needed to reduce construction waste and increase resource efficiency in the construction industry.
An initial task of the project is to conduct a questionnaire survey to investigate industry's views of the gaps in information and support mechanisms.
If you would like to input to this, the survey, which should take about 10 minutes to complete and submit, can be found by clicking on the link below.
All survey responses must be received by 5pm on Friday 14th July 2006.
If you would like further information about the project, please contact me.
Kind Regards
Gilli Hobbs, Resource Efficiency, BRE, Bucknalls Lane, Watford, WD25 9XX
tel: 01923 664856
fax: 01923 664104
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 MARK MCGOWAN LIMBERING UP
ARTIST Mark McGowan's next big adventure as artist-in-residence of this year's Salvo Fair starts tomorrow Friday 16th June at 10am from the Gherkin in the city of London, where he will attempt to roll head over heals for 40 miles to the Salvo Fair at Knebworth in Hertfordshire. The endurance event will last over two weeks. Mark is trying to raise awareness about salvage and believes that the current recycling phenomenon will destroy the planet. Mark will have sponge on his head and back and will be carrying an old door and four reclaimed house bricks the entire journey.
For more info and images see the Salvo Fair web site (linked below) 'Press' pages. And see the SalvoNEWS blog (linked below) for updates and more details about Mark and the Fair.
RADIO & TV: Tonight Mark will be on Capital Gold radio at 6.40pm, and tomorrow Channel 5 'The Wright Stuff', BBC 3Counties, BBC Ulster, London Tonight, Capital Gold again, and others, with Richard & Judy joining in later the following week, possibly at the Reclaimed Brick abbey of St Albans. We hope more press may join in on the way and help reinforce the message - 'Reclaim and Reuse, don't destroy and recycle'
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TALKS, WORKSHOPS AND DEMONSTRATIONS AT SALVO FAIR
This year's Salvo Fair at Knebworth will include workshops, demonstrations and talks by the trade.
Here are some examples:
Sanitaryware by Norman Cockroft of Alscot Bathrooms on the stand of Thomas Crapper & Co - How to clean stained baths bogs and basins, and when to call in the professionals.
Old cast iron radiators by Andy Triplow of the Old Radiator Company, Kent - How to clean them, test them and adapt them to modern heating systems.
Old English Rose & Paul kitchens by Tom Donaldson of Source, Somerset - Making 1950's aluminium kitchens fit for the modern home.
Antique keys and locks by Michael Brown of Lock Restoration Co, Strathclyde - How locks work, maintaining your old locks, repairs and keymaking.
Stained glass and leaded lights by Edgar Phillips of the Stained Glass Group, West Midlands - How to seal leaky windows, painting and firing, making hangers 'while-u-wait'.
Penny Farthing racing by Simon Kirby of Thomas Crapper & Co, Warwickshire - Mr. Kirby will take on all-comers. Probably late afternoon when the field is quieter.
Traditional beam hewing by Wocko The Woodman of Knebworth - Slow but steady oak and chestnut beam hewing workshops, lasting all day between well-earned rests.
Reflex Reaction Challenge by Ronnie Wootton of MDS Ltd, West Midlands - Mr. Wootton, World Champion, who beat the Parachute Regiment at Malvern Show, will take on all-comers.
The Square Mile Project by James Rylands of Sotheby's on the stand of Extreme Architecture from Kent - The successful sale of the Baltic Exchange and other buildings like it is vital if more is to be saved. Dennis Buggins of Extreme Architecture will be there and is bringing parts of these buildings. Overseas and top-end dealers are welcome to the talk on Friday morning, and all construction professionals to the talk on Friday afternoon.
If you are planning to have a stand at the fair and have an idea for an event please contact Thornton Kay of Salvo. Tel 020 8400 6222.
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OPEN LETTER TO DAVID MILLIBAND
To Rt Hon David Milliband MP, Environment Minister, UK Government
Dear Mr. Milliband,
I have been involved in reclaiming materials for reuse from demolition since the 1970's. In the past ten years it seems that the volume of material being reclaimed for reuse has been dropping, while recycling has been increasing. Reuse has traditionally been spearheaded by very small businesses. Recycling by very large ones. The reclaimed building material sector is comprised of several hundred small businesses who have no trade representation. The recently formed recycled wood sector with help from WRAP have benefited from subsidies and grants. As a result the amount of wood being reclaimed for reuse has dropped from 700,000 tonnes a year in 1998 (1998 BigREc Survey) to a much smaller figure today, possibly as little as 200,000 tonnes. We do not know the exact figure because Salvo cannot afford to undertake another major trade survey - Salvo is a two person business. Money is poured into subsidised wood recycling, which means mulching, composting and burning wood, a lot of which is highly sought after by the reclamation trade and which five years ago, before the subsidies, was being bought by them.
The reclaimed building materials sector has not been helped with any funding or subsidy, pays taxes and rates, and employs many thousands of people in low and high skilled work. As sources of UK materials dry up, due to recycling, the trade is going abroad to find materials to supply the healthy UK demand. For example, ten years ago the only reclaimed brick you could buy from a local salvage yard was one from a local demolition. Now the reclaimed brick sector are finding it very hard to get UK bricks from demolition so they are topping up supplies from around Europe and last month an Argentinian company was offering bricks from Argentina in the UK. This is not ideal when reclaimable UK bricks are being destroyed.
The embodied energy of the reclaimable materials now being destroyed by recycling is enough to run 10 million UK homes a year. But the true picture is worse because it takes a lot of additional energy to recycle the tens of millions of tonnes of materials that were being reclaimed. In effect, we would better off putting all reusable bricks into landfill whole, so that they can be mined and reclaimed in future, rather than crushing them. The UK makes 3 billion bricks a year and destroys about the same amount, and the reclaimed brick sector saves 150 million bricks for reuse. Ten years ago no bricks were crushed, now probably 3 billion a year are. Every 12 bricks embodies the energy equivalent of a gallon of petrol. So just in bricks we are destroying 4 Buncefields-worth* of energy a year. Add up all the reusable materials and it comes to one Buncefield a week.
This year, at the Salvo fair, we are holding a construction professionals afternoon, where we will be launching a new book by Bill Addis on 'Building with Reclaimed', and a new product from Green Works of flooring from desktops, and to which journalists have been invited. We would be delighted if you could come and meet some of the trade. It is on the afternoon of Friday 30th June at Knebworth.
Yours sincerely,
Thornton Kay
Salvo Llp
*Buncefield was the oil depot in Hertfordshire where 60 million gallons of aviation fuel were destroyed in 2005. See link below.
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BATHHOUSE RESTORATION WEB HIJACK
Bathhouse Restoration, Bath UK
Monday 22 May 2006
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As most of you are aware Bathhouse Restoration has recently opened a new website to separate trade and private customers. Our website address is www victorian-taps com. Unfortunately another reclamation company in Bath has bought the name www victoriantaps com (without the hyphen) and is directing traffic to their own website. This took place a few days after the launch of our victorian-taps site. This has led people to believe we are the same company. We would like everyone to know that Bathhouse Restoration is an independent buisness with no connection to any other Bath reclamation company. Bathhouse Restoration is directed by Paul McGowan and Chris Stocker. We would like to thank the trade for all the support we have received over this matter.
Paul McGowan
Chris Stocker
+44 (0) 7712884752
+44 (0) 1225 350877
www bathhouse-restoration com
info @ bathhouse-restoration com
www victorian-taps com
www tap-restoration com
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 ROLLING GHERKIN TO KNEBWORTH DEMONSTRATION 10AM FRIDAY
Mark McGowan, artist-in-residence for this year's Salvo Fair, will be somersaulting from the Gherkin in London to Knebworth House in Hertfordshire in June and he hopes to arrive by the start of the fair on 1st July 2006.
Mark will be doing some sample leaps, each over a pile of bricks on a reclaimed door, for the benefit of interested journalists and press photographers on the pavement outside the Gherkin at 10am on Friday 5th May.
Why the Gherkin?
Mark is starting at the Gherkin because the Baltic Exchange, that used to be on the site, will be for sale at the Salvo Fair. The Baltic Exchange was a no-expense-spared Beaux Arts extravaganza which contained the finest materials the world's biggest shipping companies could buy and was probably the last building of its type ever built. When the building's structure was damaged in an explosion the exterior marble cladding and fab interiors were carefully dismantled and stored prior to the rebuild, but the rebuild never happened. Instead the decision was taken to build the Gherkin. Eventually an architectural salvage dealer bought the remains, which were shipped from Reading to Manchester and finally to Kent. And yes, they will be taken to the Salvo Fair at Knebworth this year where they will be displayed by the current owner, Dennis Buggins of Extreme Architecture.
Why the somersaulting?
Mark McGowan is going head over heels to Knebworth as his way of saying that more salvage should be reclaimed and reused and less recycled and destroyed. This is what he says: 'In an extraordinary art performance environmentally conscious artist Mark McGowan is intending to roll head over heals on top of a door for 40 miles. Sponge will be strapped onto his head and back he will then attempt to dive over four household bricks which are placed on top of a door which has hinges in the middle and then move the door along, this incredible feat of endurance will be repeated for 40 miles from London to Knebworth.'
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DEREK GILES PASSES AWAY
DEREK Giles of D J & B Giles, Stokenchurch, Buckinghamshire, passed away suddenly on 7th March 2006. He was born in Highbury and evacuated to Stokenchurch during the war, with his brothers Clive, Jumbo and Arthur. He has always considered the village, where he is a much-respected pillar of the community, to be his home. The funeral will be held at 2pm on Monday next 20th March at the Church of St Peter & St Paul, Stokenchurch. Mrs Betty Giles, who married Derek 45 years ago, would like to thank everyone for the flowers and cards.
'Derek was one of the trade's great characters, one of the original demolition men who moved into reclamation in the 1970's, especially in bricks and tiles in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamdshire, with a passion for the trade, and a unique attitude to business,' Steve Tomlin said. 'He was legend.'
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RECLAMATION YARD FOR SALE
KEITH Edmonds is selling Bridport Reclamation in Dorset UK, complete as a going concern, with a small yard and building, stocks of mixed architectural, garden, bygones, reclaimed materials and vehicles. Offers sought around £20,000 - £25,000 Tel 01869 331969. Mob 07970 070457
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WRS AUCTION CATALOGUE NOW AVAILABLE
The sale catalogue of Wilson Reclamation (WRS) of Cumbria on Saturday 18th February is now available by email from WRS.
To receive an emailed catalogue send an email to wrs at yewtreebarn dot co dot uk
Lots will include antique furniture, fireplaces, chimneypieces, garden statuary and artefacts, animalia, flagstones, limestone columns, panelling, doors, bathware, antique curtain poles, mixed boxes of brassware, period telephones, iron gates, oak beams, chimneypots, salvaged ironware, antique pine wide board flooring, large quantity of various unusual items and collectables e.g. a 19thC dredging bucket from Ulverston canal, roof slates, stone coping, blue diamond pavers, Victorian floor tiles 6ins 9ins, and sundry building materials.
Telephone WRS on 01539 531498.
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User : Admin ; (Administrator)
Date Created : 15 Feb 2006 09:49:08
Date Modified : 15 Feb 2006 09:49:39
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 SAT 21 MAY GAZE BYGONES SALE
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