Category Archives: LASSCO Flooring

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  A Disposition To Preserve, An Ability To Improve

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  April 2017

  Posted in: LASSCO Brunswick House, LASSCO Flooring, LASSCO History, LASSCO News, LASSCO Ropewalk, LASSCO Three Pigeons, News

  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 enhancement and restoration of ancient buildings. Much like a piece of antique furniture, once wooden floors reach a certain age they all have an inherent […]

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  High Industrial Swagger On The Factory Floor.

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  November 2016

  Posted in: LASSCO Flooring, LASSCO History, LASSCO News, LASSCO Press Office, LASSCO Ropewalk, News

  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 on its Boundary Lane site in 1899 by the Architect Henry Hartley in a heterogeneous and pleasingly indiscriminate ‘Queen Anne style’. It was a statement […]

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  Skill & Labour

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  October 2016

  Posted in: LASSCO Flooring, LASSCO Ropewalk, News

  In the Glass works of Central and Northern Europe at the middle point of the Twentieth Century a remarkable concord was achieved between the rigours of the industrial process and the artistic brilliance of a generation of craftsmen.  The return to handmade glassware during the Final Act of the Industrial Age can seem unsurprising to […]

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  Salvaged From Obscurity – Half A Century On.

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  September 2016

  Posted in: LASSCO Flooring, LASSCO History, LASSCO News, LASSCO Ropewalk, News

  LASSCO has unearthed a large batch of decorative tiles from an historic London architectural gem, long thought lost without a trace. ‘Southampton Buildings’, headquarters of the Birkbeck Bank, stood between High Holborn and Chancery Lane between 1896 and 1964. The vast Victorian banking hall was built in two years by T.R. Knightley and Co. At […]

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  Wall to Wall Coverage

  14th

  March 2016

  Posted in: LASSCO Flooring, LASSCO Press Office, LASSCO Three Pigeons, News

  You, like us, may have been enjoying the nascent “Reclaim” magazine – not least due to the rather generous amount of its pages that are devoted to the LASSCO shops. Last month was a nicely written piece on the history of LASSCO and an interview with Adrian Amos. This month we got the front cover! The supply […]

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  LASSCO in Reclaim Magazine,

  26th

  January 2016

  Posted in: LASSCO Brunswick House, LASSCO Flooring, LASSCO News, LASSCO People, LASSCO Press Office, LASSCO Ropewalk, LASSCO Three Pigeons

  Read about LASSCO’s hidden gems in the newly launched Reclaim magazine.  Adrian Amos reveals all to Jane Common as she immerses herself in salvage heaven at LASSCO Ropewalk & LASSCO Brunswick House. Illustrated with Tim Kent’s photos the 10-page article delves into the history and captures the pioneering spirit of the business that Adrian founded […]

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  Hidden History: Riding House Street

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  December 2015

  Posted in: LASSCO Flooring, LASSCO News

  Charles Bell House, 67-73 Riding House Street. Like many otherwise obscure buildings in the heart of London, the building now known as Charles Bell House has a long pre-history and an anadromatic consistency of cultural significance.    Named after the Professor of Physiology who gave UCL’s inaugural lecture in 1828 it now houses a number […]

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  Soundboards

  19th

  October 2015

  Posted in: LASSCO Flooring, LASSCO News, LASSCO Ropewalk, LASSCO Three Pigeons, News, Uncategorized

  Go and tread the boards at the new Sonos Studio in Shoreditch – a great project that we were very pleased to have been involved with. Sonos are pioneers of smart wireless HiFi speakers and audio components. Their system unites your digital music collection in one app that you control from any device. Two weeks ago, in Shoreditch, they opened their second […]

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  St Olave’s Grammar School Reclaimed

  25th

  August 2015

  Posted in: LASSCO Flooring, LASSCO News, LASSCO Press Office

  St Olave’s Grammar school has occupied a number of significant sites in its four hundred odd year history on the south bank of the London River. Most notable among these is the still extant 1895 building adjacent to Tower Bridge, designed in the Queen Anne Revival style by E.W. Mountford (Old Bailey, Sheffield and Northampton Town Halls). […]

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  The Gin Craze,

  26th

  January 2015

  Posted in: LASSCO Flooring, LASSCO News, LASSCO Press Office, LASSCO Ropewalk

  In keeping with the current gin craze LASSCO has just taken delivery of over 200 sq m of wide reclaimed pine from a Scottish gin distillery. More sobering but no less exciting newly arrived stock is this Pitch Pine Strip, reclaimed from a school in Hertfordshire with an amazing natural patina. Ready to be laid, (does not […]