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16 June 2024
THE DEATH OF THE DUKE OF BRUNSWICK
Brunswick House remembers the death in battle of the Duke of Brunswick at Quatre Bras on the 6th of June, 1815.
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20 January 2023
Omnia Vanitas…
LASSCO has acquired a framed set of late Victorian and Edwardian caricature portraits from the original Vanity Fair, 1868-1914, depicting a range of figures from the world of art, politics, industry and law. The original Vanity Fair was a weekly society magazine first issued by Thomas Gibson Bowles in 1868. It aimed to capture and...
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28 October 2022
The Ghostly Spectre at Brunswick House
The Brunswick House Institute & Club was established at Vauxhall in the early years of Queen Victoria’s reign for the improvement and benefit of the locomotive drivers of the London and South Western Railway which, at that time, terminated here at Nine Elms. Soon after LASSCO arrived at the Old House the last secretary, long...
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13 April 2022
Hertford Granary Victorian Pine Floorboards.
LASSCO has rescued and offers for re-use a large quantity of late Victorian Pine floor boards, salvaged from the demolition of an historic mill and warehouse site in Hertford. The Hertford Town Granary was built by Walter Lawrence and Sons for Gilbertson and Page on a site belonging to the Marquis of Townshend between 1894...
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5 October 2020
Reclamation, Relocation.
The LASSCO Ropewalk yard is closed for business from October 22nd when our flooring yard and showroom will be moving to Brunswick House.
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4 September 2020
Middlesbrough Cathedral Iroko Blocks
“There is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.”
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13 May 2019
The Vauxhall Grand Regatta
As so often here at Brunswick House, an upcoming event of ineffable modernity reminds us of things past – usually more decorous.
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24 January 2019
Salon Wednesdays 2019
LASSCO Will Be Hosting A Series Of Guest Speakers On the History Of Design And Architecture At Brunswick House.
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28 November 2018
Into Public Ownership
LASSCO bids a fond farewell to another big beast of the Victorian public house interior.
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28 September 2018
Orphaned Boards – End Of Run Discounted Flooring.
LASSCO is having a clearance sale of remaindered batches of reclaimed flooring. Individual batches in a range of timbers are ‘priced-to-clear’.