Category Archives: LASSCO News
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7 December 2024
LASSCO Opening Hours: Christmas 2024
Truly inspired and original Christmas Shopping can be had at our two LASSCO Shops: LASSCO Three Pigeons in Oxfordshire and LASSCO Brunswick House in Vauxhall… BUT! … with Christmas events going full-tilt keep an eye on our Opening Hours as we get closer to Christmas. Both shops will be closed between Christmas and New Year...
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11 October 2024
Latest Acquisition: The Atkinson Bros Windows – Tyne & Wear
We’ve bought a fabulous series of stained-glass windows that date from the 1920’s and were made by the Atkinson Brothers of New Bridge Street in Newcastle Upon Tyne. They were made for, what was originally, the Thornhill Methodist Church in Sunderland. They are now on display and are for sale at LASSCO Three Pigeons in...
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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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28 February 2024
The Philosophers
A LASSCO discovery: The Philosophers, carved marble reliefs c.1710, by Francesco Cabianca (1666-1737)
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7 February 2024
The Temple of Friendship Coade Stone Urns
The fifteenth hole at the Harleyford Golf Club is testing. It’s 378yards from Tee to Green that, for the brave right-hander, requires a full-blooded drive with a “draw” on it; the ideal shot should clear the trees and peel to the left, dropping down on to the dog-leg fairway. Get it right and the second shot into...
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13 January 2024
Del-Boy comes to LASSCO
Sir David Jason and Jay Blades pay a visit to LASSCO Three Pigeons
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13 December 2023
Get these floorboards down … and have an “Egyptian Hall”
Reclaimed Flooring from an historic site: Egyptian House, Piccadilly
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27 March 2023
The Tucker Collection of Frame-makers’ Moulds
Make a gallery wall from the huge collection of frame-makers' moulds now available at LASSCO
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22 March 2023
Panelling salvaged from R.M.S Mauretania
In our ceaseless trawling of the barns, attics, stables and out-houses of fusty institutions and country houses we get the opportunity to find and purchase the most extraordinary things. The year started with the discovery of a large stack of wooden panelling, thick with dust and leaning up in an old garage in the grounds...
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15 March 2023
The Eton College Museum Chimneypiece
Salvaged from under the floorboards of the school hall at Eton, where it had lain for 88 years, LASSCO has acquired a spectacular stone fireplace: In 1935, faced with the dismantling of a huge stone fireplace in the Classical Museum at Eton College, the builders were clearly daunted. Even when disassembled into its component parts...