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 COX'S TEAK SINKS COMING TO KNEBWORTH
PETER Watson's architectural salvage business, Cox's Yard in Moreton-in-Marsh, has become a repository of up-market items from around southern England.
"I was rung up recently by a London dealer who said, 'A lorry will be arriving at your yard soon with a pair of very old teak sinks from the basement kitchens of the Egyptian embassy in Audley Street, Mayfair. You'll have to buy them as I have no room here.' Obligingly, he did.
He is also well placed for Midlands goodies among which is a fine oak fireplace from a house which appears to have been a Morris & Co interior, but they cannot find the necessary paperwork to prove it. 'Research was never a strong point,' Mr Watson admits.
As easily as it comes in, so it goes out: he is lending Masco a massive Tudorbethan oak fireplace for the Grand Designs exhibition at Excel on June 10th - 12th.
Apart from the unique Egyptian embassy sinks, a snip at £3,250 - the world's cheapest and most expensive teak sinks at the same time - Cox's will bring doors, inlcuding some nice oak front ones, fireplaces, door furniture and of course, what self-respecting exhibitor would be without a load of pig, goat and sheep's head painted plaster corbels from a hotel in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. And not forgetting three huge stone troughs weighing in at some two tons each. Troughtastic!
SALVO FAIR: Sat July 2nd and Sun July 3rd, 11am to 5pm, Knebworth House, Hertfordshire. By Car A1(M) J7. By rail Stevenage. Admission GBP6.50. Large pitches (1,200sqft) available until Fri June 24th, small pitches (400sqft or less) available until 6am Sat 2nd July, call Ruby Kay 020 8761 2316. This year 10,000 visitors are expected (last year 2,500 came).
Hotels: The nearest hotel (120 bedroom Novotel) is now full. The next nearest is the Premier. Tel 0870 990 6628 and quote 'salvo fair' to get a discounted rate.
Airports: Luton 5mls. Stansted and Heathrow, about an hour.
[Photos: Peter Watson and teak sinks £3,250, animal head corbels £240ea, giant maroon gadrooned cast iron hopper £450, 40no Dufy-looking Iznik-style tiles made by Carters of Poole c1890 £60ea
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