Category Archives: LASSCO Ropewalk
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23 August 2016
August Bank Holiday Weekend opening times
LASSCO Three Pigeons – Oxfordshire Saturday 27th August: Open as usual 9am to 5pm Sunday 28th August: Closed Bank Holiday Monday 29th August: Closed LASSCO Brunswick House – Vauxhall Please be aware that this Friday 26th August the shop will be closing early at 4 pm and on Saturday 27th August at 3.30 pm...
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3 May 2016
Complete Guide to Maltby Street Market
The Maltby Street Market just might be London’s most unambitious food market. The brainchild of the creative minds of LASSCO Ropewalk, the unadvertised weekend food market is more of a way to discover unique food and enjoy Bermondsey than to draw in the large crowds seen at other markets. The functioning architectural salvage lumberyard during the...
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26 January 2016
LASSCO in Reclaim Magazine,
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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24 November 2015
LASSCO in the Press,
Some recent press, including quotes by Ferrous Auger from LASSCO Brunswick House in Vauxhall. Featured: Ruth Caven’s article ‘Elevator Gates’ in the FT’s ‘How to Spend It’, Bethan John’s pick of Clocks and Maggie Stevenson’s’ 7 Steps to Picking the Perfect Fireplace’ in Homes & Antiques. Also an earlier piece, written and styled by Ruth Sleightholme for House & Garden using reclaimed timbers from our Bermondsey shop, LASSCO Ropewalk for both flooring...
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19 October 2015
Soundboards
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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19 September 2015
LASSCO and The London Design Festival,
‘LASSCO Works’ presented by LASSCO Ropewalk – a photographic exhibition of interiors created by LASSCO customers, 2012 -2105, as part of the London Design Festival 2015. On now until Sunday, 27th September. ‘What makes this especially interesting’, to quote Thornton Kay of SALVO, ‘is that most of the stock not only looks reclaimed and...
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28 August 2015
Picture House of the Lord
The Archway Central Hall was the last of the great Methodist Central Halls to be built in London, when it replaced a more modest chapel of 1873. The building was designed by George E and K G Withers in a limited competition and built in 1933-4 by C P Roberts and Company Limited (builders of Islington Central Library)....
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28 July 2015
Jewellery – War In Pieces
LASSCO has managed to save from the scrap-yard furnace a dazzling trove of brass medals, buttons, badges, diverse militaria and heraldic emblems of all kinds, which we have hand-crafted into a striking range of jewellery and accessories. Originally modelled in London and Birmingham by J.R. Gaunt & Son, “metalworkers to the King, established 200...
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3 June 2015
Bermondsey Bees,
Most of us when asked would probably say that bees buzz about in the countryside returning to their beehives in flowery meadows near orchards. But that would be wrong. Almost in the shadow of The Shard, a stone’s throw from iconic Tower Bridge & four storeys above a busy London street there are 4 cedar wood hives occupied by the...
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22 March 2015
Easter at LASSCO,
The Three LASSCO shops are adopting differing opening hours this Easter – please check the opening times below. All at LASSCO wish you a Happy Easter wherever you get to spend it. LASSCO Three Pigeons in Oxfordshire: Good Friday: Closed but with Limited Viewing available (the Pub & Restaurant will be Open) Easter Saturday: Open 11am – 4pm Easter...
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9 February 2015
‘Manna from Denim’,
This is just one of Damian Foxe’s beautifully photographed and art directed images in the current FT ‘how to spend it’ magazine. Featuring LASSCO’s reclaimed pine tables with tapered legs & other selected pieces. For more information or to place an order please email: ropewalk@lassco.co.uk or call 020 7501 7780. See the full article: http://howtospendit.ft.com/style/75851-denim-fashion ...
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26 January 2015
The Gin Craze,
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...