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Category Archives: LASSCO History
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19 January 2015
ST. MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS’ CHURCH, SHOREDITCH: LASSCO’S HOME 1979-2007
St. Michael & All Angels Church in Shoreditch, London EC2 was the home of LASSCO from 1979 until 2007. We were “that Architectural Salvage place in that church in East London”. It is tucked into the rabbit warren of Victorian streets that form a triangle south of where Great Eastern Street leaves the Old Street roundabout and heads towards Spitalfields....
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22 September 2014
Brunswick House: setting for a thriller
When Len Deighton was writing “SS-GB” in 1978 – his spy-thriller set in the 1940’s and in a London that had succumbed to Nazi invasion – he would have relished the foggy railway yard and bleak urban landscape that Nine Elms then was: a setting for a gritty denouement. Deighton, the celebrated historian, cook and...
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23 February 2012
SELF AWARENESS: THREE PIGEONS, A FICTIONAL SETTING
At LASSCO Three Pigeons we have discovered that our shop is the star, or at least one of the settings, in a fiction by the celebrated author and broadcaster Will Self. Curiously, each of his 1994 collection of short stories, collectively titled “Grey Area”, is hinged around the stretch of the M40 motorway from Beaconsfield...
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20 October 2008
Former Premises of LASSCO
Taken by the eminent photographer, Paul Barkshire, in 1981, the evocative photograph below depicts a corner of the former Lion Works premises of George Amos and Son, the company from which LASSCO originates. The photo is part of a collection recently acquired from the National Monuments Record. It was taken using a 1920s Eastman camera, with 8...