Category Archives: LASSCO Ropewalk
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8 March 2018
Roman Remains.
LASSCO has salvaged a large stock of Edwardian Baltic Pine from a site with a history stretching back to 200 A.D.
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10 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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12 December 2017
Live Jazz every Thursday at Ropewalk
Book a table or drop in: Live Jazz every Thursday from 6pm Try our Winter dinner menu every evening from Thursday to Saturday Brunch all day Saturday and Sunday Make a Booking
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23 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 House [then called Belmont House], Vauxhall, which was the home of his mother’s family, the Williams of Dorset and is now the home of LASSCO....
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25 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 Please be aware that this Saturday the 29th April the shop will be closing early at 3 pm for a private function. Saturday 29th April: Open...
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12 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 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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21 February 2017
Order Online with Delivery
At last, at long last, LASSCO its hauling itself into the digital age with a wide selection of online sales on offer. You can now buy online After many years spent diligently and stubbornly scorning the advance of technology LASSCO has finally conceded that the internet may be here to stay. In view of this...
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1 February 2017
“No contentment without the beautiful”
LASSCO has acquired a gross of Afghan saddle bag Soumaks and Kilim textiles and now invites our customers to put them to creative and decorative use. In Your Garden “Each of the flowers in your garden is brighter than a lamp; In your garden a black crow becomes like a phoenix for me. For Rahman...
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5 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 is a commonly held misapprehension that Henry VIII naval flagship, the Mary Rose, sank on her maiden voyage. The fate of the barque, packed to...
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1 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 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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18 October 2016
Skill & Labour
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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29 September 2016
Salvaged From Obscurity – Half A Century On.
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...