Category Archives: Uncategorised
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8 November 2024
Brunswick House: “London’s best private dining rooms”
Run by Jackson Boxer and his brother Frank, Brunswick House, a grade ll* Georgian mansion, is a foodie’s and an antique collector’s dream in Vauxhall...
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11 October 2024
Latest Acquisition: The Atkinson Bros Windows – Tyne & Wear
We’ve bought a fabulous series of stained-glass windows that date from the 1920’s and were made by the Atkinson Brothers of New Bridge Street in Newcastle Upon Tyne. They were made for, what was originally, the Thornhill Methodist Church in Sunderland. They are now on display and are for sale at LASSCO Three Pigeons in...
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16 June 2024
THE DEATH OF THE DUKE OF BRUNSWICK
Brunswick House remembers the death in battle of the Duke of Brunswick at Quatre Bras on the 6th of June, 1815.
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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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20 January 2023
Omnia Vanitas…
LASSCO has acquired a framed set of late Victorian and Edwardian caricature portraits from the original Vanity Fair, 1868-1914, depicting a range of figures from the world of art, politics, industry and law. The original Vanity Fair was a weekly society magazine first issued by Thomas Gibson Bowles in 1868. It aimed to capture and...
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28 October 2022
The Ghostly Spectre at Brunswick House
The Brunswick House Institute & Club was established at Vauxhall in the early years of Queen Victoria’s reign for the improvement and benefit of the locomotive drivers of the London and South Western Railway which, at that time, terminated here at Nine Elms. Soon after LASSCO arrived at the Old House the last secretary, long...
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13 April 2022
Hertford Granary Victorian Pine Floorboards.
LASSCO has rescued and offers for re-use a large quantity of late Victorian Pine floor boards, salvaged from the demolition of an historic mill and warehouse site in Hertford. The Hertford Town Granary was built by Walter Lawrence and Sons for Gilbertson and Page on a site belonging to the Marquis of Townshend between 1894...