Category Archives: LASSCO History
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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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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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30 October 2018
Forty years of LASSCO: 1st November 1978
The origins of LASSCO (The London Architectural Salvage & Supply Company) can be traced way back through “Geo. Amos & Son” – a cabinet makers in the East End – to sawyers at Spilmersford Mill on the Tyne in East Lothian in Georgian times. It was in the 1970’s that Adrian Amos saw the opportunity...
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16 June 2015
Commemorating Our Duke
Essentially our business is dealing in ‘history’. It’s debatable whether it’s usually history with a Big ‘H’ or history with a small ‘h’. Today, 16th June 2015, LASSCO at Brunswick House is touched by Big History. It marks the 200th anniversary of the death at the Battle of Quatre Bras of Frederick William, Duke of...
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22 January 2015
THE THREE PIGEONS, MILTON COMMON, OXFORDSHIRE
LASSCO moved from St. Michael’s Shoreditch to The Three Pigeons Oxfordshire in 2007. The pub we found then was in a terrible state and so were the grounds. We have brought the old Inn back to life. The bar and dining rooms are once again thronged with people – both locals and travellers – and with our Architectural Salvage displayed...
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20 January 2015
BRUNSWICK HOUSE, VAUXHALL: A SHORT HISTORY BY STEFAN LORETT
In the eighteenth century Brunswick House (originally Belmont House) stood in five and half acres of parkland with its own jetty and a handsome frontage onto the Old Portsmouth Road. Now some two and half centuries later it casts a rueful glance at five lanes of traffic thundering past all hours of the day and...