Latest LASSCO News
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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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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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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 September 2022
Nick & Catherine’s Brunswick House Wedding
Nick and Catherine’s celebration is a riot of summer love, wrapped up in a chic city bow. They opted for an outdoor ceremony in Battersea Park followed by a joy-filled reception at ‘the ever-eclectic Brunswick House.’ To hire Brunswick House events@lassco.co.uk Photography Lara Cornell Photography
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2 September 2022
Brunswick House Journal
This week we've reclaimed bronze fountains from an embassy, tribal masks from Bermondsey and we've tied the knot four times.
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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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24 May 2022
Unprecious wedding that ‘felt like a House Party’
Brunswick House played host to the wedding of Alice Vincent; gardener, author and RHS Chelsea Flower show regular. We were thrilled to see her charming account of the day she wed her husband Matt, featured in Vogue, along with these photographs that capture our House at its best. “We’d chosen Brunswick House because we hoped...
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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...