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 JOHN LENNON'S WC PAN MAKES £9,500
A Victorian closet pan removed by John Lennon from Tittenhurst Park, Berkshire, between 1969 and 1972, sold for £9,500 (est £800) at an annual Beatles memorabilia auction in Liverpool to an unknown overseas private buyer, according to Lennon expert and auction organiser Stephen Bailey.
Lennon gave the WC pan to John Hancock, his building foreman, when the toilet was replaced with two new gold-plated 'Him' and 'Them' fittings. Lennon subsequently sold the house to Ringo, who in the late 1980s sold it to a sheikh from Abu Dhabi. Hancock's son-in-law consigned the loo pan to the auction.
Sharpe Brothers & Co Ltd: The WC pan was a 'Rilcote' made c1895 by Sharpe Brothers of Swadlincote near Burton on Trent. Thomas Sharpe started the business in 1821 as a yellow-ware manufacturer and died in 1838. In 1846 Sharpe Brothers & Co is listed in Bagshaw's 1846 Repton & Gresley Directory as earthenware manufacturers, as was Edmund Sharpe, who took over the firm and in 1855 patented a successful improvement of the flushing rim for WC pans, establishing Swadlincote as a world leader in the manufacture of sanitaryware for the next 100 years. A Sharpe's water closet was regarded as a status symbol in Russia.
Rilcote was still being listed as a trade name for Sharpe's water closets in 1927, and Sharpe Brothers pottery finally closed in 1967.
The firm produced ironstone cane, yellow ware, buff drab, fire-proof, Rockingham, mottled, black lustre pottery, salt-glaze as well as cane, white and blue-printed earthenware sanitary goods. The mark of 'T. Sharpe' was replaced later by 'S B & Co' within a wreath and the words 'Sharpe's Patent' above.
Sharpe Brothers & Co Ltd is still trading, although it is now a property company, although there is still possesses an archive of old books, catalogues and ledgers. The Sharpe's Pottery Heritage and Arts Trust Ltd acquired a 125 year lease on the Sharpe's Pottery buildings and site which it opened as a museum, heritage and arts centre on 18 January 2003.
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HUMAN RIGHTS IMPACT ASSESSMENT TOOL LAUNCHED
This online human rights tool shows how to assess the effect a business may have on people's human rights and ways to change any negative impacts that have been reported or discovered. It contains online resources that relate to each of the seven HRIAM stages: preparation, identification, engagement, assessment, mitigation, management and evalutaion. It also provides information on sector-specific initiatives that address social and human rights issues within the relevant industry sector.
The HRIAM tool could, for example, be useful to businesses importing material from third world countries who wish to show their customers that they are sourcing responsibly.
The tool was created by the International Business Leaders Forum and the World Bank's International Finance Corporation with input from the United Nations. The website has a seven minute introductory video which we have linked below.
Salvo would be interested to hear feedback from any business using it, whether it was of use, and improvements which could be made.
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EVENTS . . .
Saturday, 4 September
Detling
Sunday, 5 September
Detling
Tuesday, 7 September
Ardingly
Drewetts: Bedsteads Grand Clearance Sale
Wednesday, 8 September
Ardingly
See the link for the Salvo events calendar
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DEMOLITION FIRM FINED FOR DIESEL LEAK
An oil spill at a former pie factory which was being demolished in Chester Road, Wellingborough was the responsibility of Deltatrax Ltd trading as BDS Specialists in Demolition, Northampton magistrates were told.
The company, pleaded guilty on Friday (20 August) to breaching the Water Resources Act and polluting the Swanspool Brook and was fined £5,000 and ordered to pay £5,073.28 costs.
Miss Claire Bentley, prosecuting for the Environment Agency, said the oil had polluted 700m of the brook and had necessitated a clean-up operation which involved both the Agency and clean-up contractors.
The offence came to light on Sunday 5 April when there was a report from a member of the public of pollution in the brook next to Castle Fields in the town. Oil was floating on the surface and an Environment Agency officer traced it back to a discharge pipe at the rear of the demolition site.
He placed booms down to try to stop it flowing any further. He could not get onto the site as it was locked and the security firm noted on the gate no longer looked after it.
On the following day he visited and found that there was evidence of an oil spill around an oil storage tank which was situated in a partly demolished building. It appeared that the tank contained red diesel.
Environment Agency officer Chris Willis went back to the discharge point and found thick oil seeping through an earth bank that had been containing some of the oil. He put down more booms and absorbent pads.
On a later visit Mr Willis was told by a member of the Deltatrax staff that there had been problems with intruders entering the site.
A drainage plan for the site, submitted as evidence by the Environment Agency in a previous case, showed a clear link between the area where the tank was sited and two areas where there was evidence of oil spill and the discharge pipe.
A representative of the site owner said he did not recognise the oil storage tank that was on the site and had no knowledge of its use there.
Company representatives failed to respond to a request from the Agency for an interview under caution about the issue, the court heard.
Miss Bentley said the risk of pollution was foreseeable as oil was being stored in a tank which had no secondary containment, was not bunded or secure.
Mr Gary Lewis, solicitor for the defendant, said that the company replaced the tank once the deficiencies were brought to its' attention by Mr Willis..
After the hearing Chris Willis said: 'Oil in the water can harm wildlife, affect fish and taint drinking water at very low concentrations. This pollution was avoidable and continued even after it was brought to the attention of the company.
'Responding to the problem straight away could have avoided this becoming such a serious matter.'
Deltatrax pleaded guilty to:
On or about 5 April 2009 you did cause poisonous, noxious or polluting matter, namely diesel or gas fuel oil, to enter controlled waters, namely the Swanspool Brook a tributary of the River Ise adjacent to Castle Fields, Chester Road, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire.
Contrary to section 85(1) and 85(6) Water Resources Act 1991.
[source: UK Environment Agency
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STAFFORDSHIRE HOARD TO STAY IN THE MIDLANDS
The hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold unearthed a couple of miles from the home of UKAA by a Burntwood metal detectorist has been saved for generations of local families to enjoy, after a huge fundraising campaign hit its £3.3 million target. The awe-inspiring find was discovered in a field near Hammerwich by Terry Herbert from Burntwood.
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LET DEFRA HAVE YOUR VIEWS
Jonathan Essex asks for everyone to respond to Defra's waste review.
Defra writes: Preparing for reuse means checking, cleaning or repairing products or parts of products so that they can be re-used. A good example of this is repairing or altering discarded furniture or old IT equipment. We would welcome your views on preparing for reuse in England and in particular:
How much more do you think could be done to prepare waste for reuse?
Which types of waste should be priorities for reuse?
What is currently stopping preparing for reuse from happening more?
Who is best placed to deliver an increase in preparing for reuse?
Jonathan Essex of BioRegional Reclaimed writes: The Coalition Government is currently reviewing waste and Defra currently has a survey on its website inviting comments on ways to reduce and manage waste; in particular this survey wants to know what people think about Waste Incineration. I would urge you to go to this website and complete the survey as a matter of urgency as it closes on 9th September 2010.
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 ESAVIAN - THE EDUCATIONAL SUPPLY ASSOCIATION - AND JAMES LEONARD
Esavian was the trading brand name for the Educational Supply Association Ltd, a leading UK supplier of school books, school furniture and fixtures including laboratory euqipment, windows and folding partitions. The ESA seems to have commnced trading in 1883 at a purpose-built factory in Fishers Green Road in Stevenage, Hertfordshire. The company had a forward-looking approach to modern materials and technologies. Esavian stood for low-cost, good quality furniture, but they became best known for innovative folding classroom partitions. In 1971, Nigel Jewers joined Esavian having had previous experience of door manufacturer, and introduced the idea of steel sliding doors for aircraft hangars. In 1983, Jewers left Esavian and started out alone. His company thrived and he began to explore the hangar door market - soon winning many orders against competition from Esavian. In 1987, Jewers Doors Ltd acquired the Esavian business. Consequently, Esavian became the brand name for hangar doors designed and built by Jewers Doors Ltd.
Little information is available on James W. Leonard, altough he is thought to have been English. The only documented example of his work is a chair design and associated table with variations. His work appeared in the Italian design magazine, Esempi, in 1955. It is debated whether James Leonard or Jean Prouve invented the compass legs. In 2008, Guy Bagnall, referring to a compass leg table, wrote, 'This design is by James Leonard in 1946 or 7 and pre-dates Prouve's 'Compass' by three years. It was featured in Domus in early 1948 and was manufactured in high-pressure die-cast aluminium, using an American machine, a highly-innovative production method. He also designed brilliant chairs, over a million were made by 1965 - and yet he remains unknown - we Brits are very bad at celebrating our talents - I hope to plan an exhibition on him - a British Prouve!'
There is a film in the British Film Institute's archive called The Esavian Door which was made in 1952.
Trainspotters of Gloucestershire are selling Esavian aluminium desks with tropical hardwood tops, and aluminium chairs, the latter made to a c1948 aerospace-influenced design by James W. Leonard.
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CHINESE RICE MORTAR TRADITION CONFIRMED
Oral tradition has it that old Chinese building mortars contained rice broth and bittern, instead of the hydraulic lime used in the West, due to the shortage of naturally-occurring hydraulic material. Among the 9 limewashes and 18 lime mortars one used sticky rice, and it was this one which was extensively used in important buildings, such as tombs, pagodas, city walls, and public works.
In 2010, a study of sticky rice-lime mortar with varying sticky rice content. The mechanical strength of the mortar was found to be significantly improved by the introduction of sticky rice. Amylopectin from the sticky rice was found to act as an inhibitor to the growth of the calcium carbonate crystals and a more compact structure results.
Ancient mortar samples were analysed by iodine starch, acid attack, thermogravimetric differential scanning calorimetry, X-ray diffraction, Fourier transform infrared, and scanning electron microscopy. These showed that the inorganic component is calcium carbonate, and the organic component is amylopectin, which is presumably derived from the sticky rice soup added to the mortar.
Amylopectin, a type of polysaccharide and highly branched polymer of glucose, found in rice and other starchy foods, is the secret ingredient responsible for the mortar's legendary strength, including its durability, and ability to withstand earthquakes.
[sources:
Chang Liu, Study of the Traditional Method of Lime Slaking and Lime Products in Beijing, 2000
Yang, Zhang and Ma, Study of Stick Rice-Lime Mortar for the Restoration of Historical Masonry Construction, May 2010. Their findings appear in an article published in the American Chemical Society (ACS) monthly journal, Accounts of Chemical Research.
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 H&SE ISSUES CHERRYPICKER GUIDANCE
The UK Health & Safety Executive have issued guidance notes on safe practice with cherrypickers and other mobile work platforms.
More people die from falls at work than from any other cause but the use of a mobile elevating work platform (MEWP) has helped reduce this, and for temporary work at height is often the safest solution.
A number of fatal and serious accidents have occurred on MEWPS where operators have become trapped between the guardrails or other equipment on the platform and adjacent obstructions. Many of these have happened in construction activities but not all. The H&SE wish to publicise the issue and direct users to new guidance which addresses this particular aspect of MEWP use.
Also see:
1. Construction Plant Hire Asscoiation: MEWPS - avoiding trapping / crushing injuries
2. Wikipedia: Aerial work platform
3. Wikipedia: Cherry picker
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 MARRIED AT A SALVAGE YARD
Rachael Hope, director of digital ads at MTV, and Jeremy Tilsner, financial data analyst, were married at Architectural Antiques Minneapolis on 6th August.
Architectural Antiques is not the only salvage business which hires out its space for events, but it is the first we have heard from where people have got married.
'Architectural Antique's turn-of-the-century warehouse in the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District is the perfect venue for your event. Filled with thousands of original antiques, Architectural Antiques provides beauty and nostalgia to people of all ages for a highly unique atmosphere, guaranteeing a memorable occasion. What sets us apart from other rental facilities is the 25,000 foot warehouse filled with natural light and the countless opportunities for individuals to incorporate our inventory into their event. For example, a series of fabulous antique chandeliers hung over tables for dinner, the use of a turn-of-the-century bar for drinks or utilizing original stained glass windows for a backdrop. The space at Architectural Antiques is able to accommodate up to 300 people (handicap accessible), for weddings, parties and fund raisers and more with pricing starting at $2500 per event. Helping people use their creativity and putting together an affair is one of the most rewarding parts of our job, giving these old artifacts new life!' effuses their website.
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OUT OF CONTROL PASSION AT MALPLAQUET HOUSE
'Is it a house at all, you wonder, as room after limewashed room reveal the compulsive collecting disorder of its owners? Every inch of wall space is covered with pictures and there is a gradual encroachment of floor space by sculpture, taxidermy and architectural salvage. More a museum of curiosities. A cornucopia of items as disparate as an elephant skull and a sedan chair; portraits of bishops and bankers; a terracotta bust of Persephone; bookshelves from Sir Anthony Blunt's flat in Portman Square.
'Tim Knox and Todd Longstaffe-Gowan, both specialist historians, admit that their passion has got out of control and that the six-bedroomed house can no longer contain it. "Now, if we acquire a large new picture," Tim says, "we are scratching our heads to know where to fit it in." The possibility of not acquiring a large new picture hasn't occurred to them, so they are searching for another, much bigger, crumbling ruin for their collection.'
Todd Longstaffe-Gowan is gardens adviser to Hampton Court Palace and has prepared a conservation strategy for the baroque gardens at Kensington Palace. Tim Knox is the former head curator of the National Trust and now director of the Soane Museum.
[source: Elizabeth Grice at Daily Telegraph
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 BEDSTEADS GRAND CLEARANCE SALE
Dreweatts will be holding an onsite auction on behalf of Bedsteads at their Chelvey Court Barn, Chelvey Road, Backwell, Nr Bristol, BS48 4AA, commencing at 10.30am. Viewing days will be held at the same site on Friday 3rd September 10.00am - 5.00pm, Saturday 4th September 10.00am - 5.00pm, Monday 6th September 10.00am - 5.00pm, and from 9.00am on day of sale.
The sale will comprise of 500 lots of antique beds, all styles, restored and unrestored, mostly Continental, interesting shapes and designs. Also included in the sale will be Continental furniture, mirrors and other decorative items.
Further information from Dreweatts, Baynton Road, Bristol, BS3 2EB Telephone 0117 953 1603 or 0117 973 7201
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 PRESERVATIONISTS RACE TO SAVE CRANFORD SCHOOL FIREPLACE
Cranford School is set for demolition in mid-September which has left preservationists racing to save its antique fireplace from the wrecking ball. The decorative tiles surrounding the fireplace depict an idyllic barnyard scene, however they are set in 17 inch thick walls which has meant they are proving difficult to remove.
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 CREATE YOUR OWN DEMOLITION COMPANY ONLINE
New German demolition game, 'in a city where buildings are constructed as rapidly as they are torn down again you get to take control of an emerging demolition company. A multitude of missions lead you to various demolition sites in different districts of the city.'
Further, 'you can invest the earned money in new vehicles which in turn unlock new assignments in the city and tutorials in your company's practice area.'
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 APPEAL TO BLOCK THE DEMOLITION OF STEVE JOBS' MANSION DROPPED
Slash Lane reports that preservationists Uphold Our Heritage have dropped their appeal to block the demolition of Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs' mansion. The organization made the decision after Jobs reportedly did not respond to a proposal from two nearby residents who offered to dismantle the house and move it about two miles away.
Therefore it appears that Steve Jobs' desire to demolish the house and replace it with something more modern will finally get the go-ahead.
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 POLICE STOP DEMOLITION IN WREXHAM
The police were called on on Wednesday 18 August as more demolition work was reportedly being carried out at the former Mines Rescue Station in Wrexham. Demolition was stopped by the local council who insisted on a safety certificate. Heritage body Cadw then listed the building, giving it protection.
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RINGO STARR'S BIRTHPLACE FACES THREAT OF DEMOLITION
The Victorian terrace at Madryn Street, Toxteth, where Beatles drummer Ringo Starr was born is under threat of demolition. So far discussions to move the house to Museum of Liverpool have proved unsuccessful. The street is one of a number of roads earmarked for the second phase of the Pathfinder scheme, which will see the bulldozers enter in March 2011.
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 SETH LAKEMAN AND SALVAGE YARDS
Caroline Rees interviewed Seth Lakeman who had a place called Hazel Cottage in Yelverton on the edge of Dartmoor:
'Having a house rather than a flat appealed to me. It was an Edwardian terrace and had a lot of character inside. You slept downstairs and the sitting room and kitchen were upstairs. The decor was quite 1970s, so I used Egyptian Sand paint over everything. We went to reclamation places and picked up sofas for £100. It was a bachelor pad, two guys living out on the moors, with nobody to impress.
We'd been there six months when Tim said he'd seen someone coming out of the garage. I popped down and there were all these empty bottles and chocolate-bar wrappers. It turned out a tramp had been living there for several days, rolled up in a carpet. I hadn't even noticed.'
He wrote two albums, Kitty Jay and Freedom Fields, there.
[Source: from the new paid-for Times online website
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 COLLEEN GOWLETT LEAVING
Colleen Gowlett is leaving Salvo Llp after 3 years. "I will be sad to leave the Salvo team and thank everyone for making my time here so enjoyable. I will miss many of the trade especially during the merriment of Salvo Fair. I am moving on to new things closer to home, you know the old saying never work with children or dogs well I will be working with children and have just got a pet dog now I don't have to make the long trek into London anymore. . .so wish me luck! Best wishes to everyone for the future," said Colleen.
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ISSUES SURROUNDING SUSTAINABILITY AND ARCHITECTURE
Graham Fairley, head of facade engineering at Aecom and Anthony Gell, CEO at The Business Voice, question just how sustainable is sustainable design.
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 HOPE FOR HUDDERSFIELD PALACE THEATRE
'A ONCE proud music hall that attracted thousands of visitors in its heyday could be saved from the bulldozers after all. Huddersfield Civic Society wants the Palace Theatre, an iconic building in Kirkgate, owned by London-based developer Hallco 1127, to become a listed building. The society has applied for the listing of the theatre because of the architectural importance of the building's 1937 facade.
In early July the owner served a demolition notice for the theatre, a statutory requirement prior to planned demolition. However, the society says the approved drawings of the Kingsgate Centre extension planning application clearly show that the facade is to be retained as part of the new development,' reports Robert Sutcliffe from the Yorkshire Post.
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 GAZE ARCHITECTURAL SALVAGE AND STATUARY SALE THIS SATURDAY
TW Gaze will be holding a sale of 938 lots of Architectural Salvage and Statuary on Saturday 21 August 2010. Specialist Carl Willows said, "There will be many interesting lots including Coalbrookdale Laurel 2 seater bench, stone, lead, bronze, statuary, Gates, railings, telephone boxes, a fine wheeled shed, Turret clocks, sundials, urns, marble stoop. Lots of York stone and other flooring including oak boards."
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 THE NEW 'JUNKITECTURE' CRAZE
Husband and wife team Folke Köbberling and Martin Kaltwasser have built the Jellyfish Theatre using old pallets as cladding and some recycled and reclaimed materials such as old kitchen units and watercooler bottles which will be decorated by local school children.
This new craze to create buildings from recycled and reclaimed materials has been termed 'Junkitecture'.
The structure is made from scaffolding with a temporary scaffolding roof which has then been clad with plastic bottles and old pallets. According to some reports materials and fixings were also bought from a nearby superstore.
The UK Arts Council have provided £85,000 grant funding for the project.
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HOW TO CLEAN BRASS DOOR KNOBS
'Cleaning your door knobs and the rest of your doors is a great way to give your whole house a lift. These are cleaned so rarely that when you do see them clean, it makes you feel as if you're living in a hospital - or the home of someone with way more time than you! If you have an old home, you more than likely have brass door knobs - it was a common material used for creating door accessories at the time,' Lucy Atkinson of Knocking on History's Door writes.
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SIXTEEN SHIRE HORSES PULL REPLICA TITANIC ANCHOR FOR NEW TV SERIES
Sixteen shire horses pulled a replica of the Titanic's sixteen ton stern anchor from Dudley to Netherton in a reverse historic re-enactment of the original's move from Noah Hingley's forge in Netherton to Dudley goods yard en route to the Harland & Wolff yard in Belfast. Hingley's made most of the original chain and anchors for the RMS Titanic in 1911 but not the 16 ton stern anchor whose shank was too large for Hingley's equipment and so was forged by Somers of Halesowen, although the anchor's shackles were forged by Hingley's.
The re-enactment was filmed for a new five-part series for Channel 4 and National Geographic called 'We Built Titanic' due to air in September which will feature engineers making parts of the ship. The cost of making the anchor was £50,000 and its long term future is believed to be housed at the Black Country Living Museum.
Sheffield Forgemasters, which made the replica anchor at Brightside Lane, was the only company in the UK capable of manufacturing the heavy components needed. It will be hammer-tested using a traditional Edwardian method which uses a 10lb sledge hammer to test its durability. The replica was made of a cast iron head and the wrought iron shank which was forged from a solid steel ingot, using Forgemasters' 4,000 tonne press.
In 1976, in the Black Country Bugle, Mr G W Edwards gave a first hand account of the manufacture. "The Titanic had three anchors, two at the bows and one at the stern," he said. "The bow anchors each weighed 8-and-a-half tons and their shanks were forged by Tom Curry, a skilled craftsman at Hingley's at that time. The heads of the anchors (Halls patent) were cast in Sheffield. The anchor chains, made by Hingley's, were of 3-and-aquarter inch diameter iron and were side-welded and they were each 900ft long (10 lengths of 15 fathoms). In those days ships were not equipped with stabilisers and the method of steadying a vessel in stormy conditions was to hang an anchor from the stern on a thick steel cable."
A 30ft section of Titanic's bow was also recreated as part of the TV series and unveiled in June beside the Belfast berthing dock where she was built a century ago. Fireworks exploded and the famous red and white flag of the White Star liner was raised once again as the giant steel structure was presented to a gathering of 200 in the Northern Ireland Science Park on Queen's Island. Addressing the audience at the launch, engineer Brendan Walker said, "We have been marvelling at the physical strength, speed and technique of the people that built this ship. We all know the tragedy and loss of that night in April 1912 but we are here to leave a tribute to the people who built Titanic - - those fine engineers. And, as we all know, the ship was fine when it left Belfast."
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