Latest LASSCO News
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12 March 2018
Sir William McAlpine 1936-2018
Sir William McAlpine, 6th Baronet, grandson of Sir Robert McAlpine, 1st Baronet “Concrete Bob” [1847 – 1934] , and Director of the great British construction firm that bears his grandfather’s name, died at the age of 82 last week. Bill, unsurprisingly, given his civil engineering experience was more a hands-on practical man than the nabob...
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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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1 March 2018
Shiver me timbers
From a snowy LASSCO Three Pigeons in Oxfordshire: ***Update: Friday LASSCO Three Pigeons – the Architectural Yard and Shop is Open today (Friday)… but will close early at 3.30pm. We’ll be Open as usual tomorrow (Saturday). The Three Pigeons Pub Restaurant is Closed today (Friday): With some of the team unable to make it in...
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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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14 November 2017
Weddings and Events at Brunswick House
For all events enquiries at Brunswick House, contact Jo Auger events@lassco.co.uk
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11 September 2017
From The Ground Up – Baltic Pine Flooring.
No salvage or reclamation firm in the Kingdom has as wide a selection of solid, practicable, serviceable historic and reclaimed Baltic Pine floorboards as LASSCO. If you were to enter into almost any building, commercial, public or domestic, built in Britain between the beginning of the Eighteenth Century and the end of the Last War and looked...
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4 September 2017
Modernist Flat Finishing Touches.
LASSCO is offering remaindered and end-of-run batches of historic and reclaimed parquet blocks at drastically reduced rates. LASSCO’s flooring department is often left with batches under 20 square metres of magnificently patinated hard and softwood block which remain from larger orders. When we reclaim a floor of 100 square metres and a customer only needs...
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28 August 2017
Benjamin Flurolier Lights
LASSCO has salvaged a run of pioneering mid 20th Century industrial lighting from a famous wartime Rolls Royce Factory. The Benjamin Electric Ltd was founded in 1908, barely thirty years after the invention of the electric light bulb itself, and so could not have been accused of exaggeration when they described themselves to be the ‘pioneers...
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21 August 2017
Obscure Witness to a Titanic Disaster.
LASSCO has acquired a set of cast iron door cases from the original headquarters of the White Star Line – owner and operator of RMS Titanic. Built in 1903-1906 by the firm of H. Tanner Jr, Oceanic House has significance and setting that belies its present anonymity at the confluence of Cockspur Street and Pall Mall...
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16 August 2017
Brunswick House restaurant closed for refurbishment
Our restaurant in LASSCO Brunswick House will be closed for some light refurbishment until 29th August. However, our shop will be open as usual and we will continue hosting private events. Please note that the car park may have very limited space due to the building works. Just next to us is St. George Wharf underground...
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3 July 2017
New Car Park at Three Pigeons
If you like the smell of fresh tarmac get down to LASSCO Three Pigeons. After weeks of preparatory work, today and tomorrow we have the big pour – followed by the big roll (Mon/Tues 3/4th July 2017). We do need a bigger car park – the new one should be plenty big enough – we...