Category Archives: LASSCO News
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12th March 2018
Sir William McAlpine 1936-2018
Sir William McAlpine, 6th Baronet, grandson of Sir Robert McAlpine, 1st Baronet “Concrete Bob” [1847 – 1934] , and Director of the great British construction firm that bears his grandfather’s…
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1st March 2018
Shiver me timbers
From a snowy LASSCO Three Pigeons in Oxfordshire: ***Update: Friday LASSCO Three Pigeons – the Architectural Yard and Shop is Open today (Friday)… but will close early at 3.30pm. We’ll…
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10th January 2018
Sea Containers House
LASSCO has salvaged a number of interesting items from the prominent former Bankside office, Sea Containers House, designed by Warren Platner.
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16th August 2017
Brunswick House restaurant closed for refurbishment
Our restaurant in LASSCO Brunswick House will be closed for some light refurbishment until 29th August. However, our shop will be open as usual and we will continue hosting private…
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23rd May 2017
Bank Holiday Weekend opening hours
Saturday 27th May is the birthday of Sir Henry Williams Baker, the great hymnodist, who founded Hymns, Ancient & Modern. He was born on this day in 1821 at Brunswick…
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25th April 2017
Bank Holiday Weekend opening hours
LASSCO Three Pigeons – Oxfordshire Saturday 29th April: Open as usual 9am to 5pm Sunday 30th April: Closed Bank Holiday Monday 1st May: Closed LASSCO Brunswick House – Vauxhall…
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12th April 2017
A Disposition To Preserve, An Ability To Improve
A recent LASSCO supplied restoration of a C17th townhouse in the West End of London demonstrates that integrity of materials combined with an eye to improvement are the key ingredients in the…
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29th March 2017
Take Back Control
LASSCO’s in house carpenter creates one-off items of furniture combining integrity of materials with admirable utility. We encourage our customers to ponder what they can do themselves with our wealth of…
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5th December 2016
‘Dear God, What A Place’
LASSCO has acquired the complete furniture and fittings of the ill-fated modern bistro ‘Le Chabanais’, lately showered with ordure in the pages of The Daily Telegraph and the Guardian. It…
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1st November 2016
High Industrial Swagger On The Factory Floor.
LASSCO has come into posession of a large quantity of reclaimed Victorian maple strip flooring from the Ogden’s tobacco factory in Liverpool. Ogden’s Imperial tobacco factory was constructed in Liverpool…
