Category Archives: LASSCO Three Pigeons
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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...
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22 February 2023
The Gates to Forgotten Metro-Land
In amongst the stock of ironwork at LASSCO Three Pigeons we have a utilitarian pair of iron gates for sale. We removed them from the yard at Verney Junction Station in rural Buckinghamshire. It is now a private house but still with an overgrown railway platform at the back. The small station, in a tiny...
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16 November 2022
(Another railing section of…) The Greatest Forgotten Wall in London
In March 2022 we discovered a rusted section of the railing from the vast Somers Town Goods Yard in King’s Cross; it was lent up in an artist’s studio in Kent. We bought it, researched its history, and told the story of where it originated from. It was quickly snapped up and we had an...
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8 June 2022
Island Life
LASSCO has noticed a high proportion of island dwelling customers - LASSCO News tells the story of some.
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5 October 2020
Reclamation, Relocation.
The LASSCO Ropewalk yard is closed for business from October 22nd when our flooring yard and showroom will be moving to Brunswick House.
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6 August 2020
The 12th Johnson Hobby Horse
“Where do you get all this stuff from?”. “Who is going to buy that?”…. are recurring questions we are asked at LASSCO. Sometimes we can tell you the whole story: both where something came from, and where it ended up. This is the second of these Lockdown ramblings (the first was “The Tale of the...