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29 June 2018
A Londoner’s Guide to the Three Pigeons Inn
‘Tired of London, tired of life’ they say but still, everyone deserves a day out in the country when the summer arrives. In early June we at LASSCO Ropewalk decided to leave behind the madding crowd’s ignoble strife and take advantage of the sunny weather by travelling out to LASSCO Three Pigeons Inn in rural Oxfordshire for a slap up pub...
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17 May 2018
Shop the ‘Grand Designs Live’ Collection
The curtain has been drawn on the LASSCO Grand Designs Live showcase 2018 Your last chance to obtain remaining items from the collection below On something of a whim, LASSCO resolved recently to exhibit at this years Grand Designs show at the London Excel Centre. LASSCO stand at Grand Designs Live 2018 It all came about because Grand Designs host and noted...
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15 March 2018
Kilim, Afghan saddle bags and baloch half price
LASSCO Ropewalk’s rich selection of earthy Afghan textiles are on sale Available at 50% off the Kilim and the Soumak are two hardy rough-textured fabrics used throughout the Near East and Central Asia as light and attractive pieces of decorative furnishing. From cushion covers, carpets, door matts or throws; These hardy woven textiles are as versatile as they are...
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12 December 2017
Live Jazz every Thursday at Ropewalk
Book a table or drop in: Live Jazz every Thursday from 6pm Try our Winter dinner menu every evening from Thursday to Saturday Brunch all day Saturday and Sunday Make a Booking
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21 February 2017
Order Online with Delivery
At last, at long last, LASSCO its hauling itself into the digital age with a wide selection of online sales on offer. You can now buy online After many years spent diligently and stubbornly scorning the advance of technology LASSCO has finally conceded that the internet may be here to stay. In view of this...
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21 September 2016
LASSCO GO at London Design Festival 2016: The Interviews
Sara from Style Salvo has put together a beautifully written series of interviews on each of the designers featured in our GO Exhibition at LASSCO Ropewalk, for London Design Festival 2016. With so many exhibitions and showcases to choose from in such a short period of time, perhaps this write up will encourage those of you...
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4 August 2016
‘GO!’ #LDF2016 at LASSCO Ropewalk 17th – 25th Sept
LASSCO presents ‘GO!’ a series of three product showcases each focusing on the potential of reclaimed materials and an environmentally conscious approach to design, hosted by LASSCO Ropewalk. Designers Josefin Landalv, Alfred Newall and Emily Griffin have been invited to launch three unique capsule collections at LASSCO Ropewalk, London’s original salvage yard, from the 17th to the...
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3 May 2016
Complete Guide to Maltby Street Market
The Maltby Street Market just might be London’s most unambitious food market. The brainchild of the creative minds of LASSCO Ropewalk, the unadvertised weekend food market is more of a way to discover unique food and enjoy Bermondsey than to draw in the large crowds seen at other markets. The functioning architectural salvage lumberyard during the...
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21 April 2016
God Save The Queen
LASSCO offers its loyal greetings in the day of Her Majesty’s 90th birthday. Long may she reign.
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4 December 2015
Hidden History: Riding House Street
Charles Bell House, 67-73 Riding House Street. Like many otherwise obscure buildings in the heart of London, the building now known as Charles Bell House has a long pre-history and an anadromatic consistency of cultural significance. Named after the Professor of Physiology who gave UCL’s inaugural lecture in 1828 it now houses a number...
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28 August 2015
Picture House of the Lord
The Archway Central Hall was the last of the great Methodist Central Halls to be built in London, when it replaced a more modest chapel of 1873. The building was designed by George E and K G Withers in a limited competition and built in 1933-4 by C P Roberts and Company Limited (builders of Islington Central Library)....
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25 August 2015
St Olave’s Grammar School Reclaimed
St Olave’s Grammar school has occupied a number of significant sites in its four hundred odd year history on the south bank of the London River. Most notable among these is the still extant 1895 building adjacent to Tower Bridge, designed in the Queen Anne Revival style by E.W. Mountford (Old Bailey, Sheffield and Northampton Town Halls)....