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 SALVO FAIR 2007 FAIR GUIDE
Salvo Fair guide (inc SalvoNEWS 265 Friday 22 June 2007)
Contents: Salvo Fair exhibitor list (so far), 300 handy hints for buying and using salvage, talks and workshops sponsored by Period Living magazine, and the text and illustrations of the talk by Julian Radcliffe, chairman of the Art Loss Register, about the role of the ALR, garden statuary architectural salvage and good title.
The other talks scheduled for the afternoon of the trade day at Salvo Fair on Friday 29 June are Nicole Lazarus of BioRegional Reclaimed on carbon footprints and reclaimed materials, a round table discussion on fair trade led by Peter Weldon and Karen Glen - and should it be a part of the new trade association, an update on BigREc Survey and standards of supply by Thornton Kay, a report on Deco07, the USA Building Materials Reuse Association's conference by Steve Tomlin. There may be a discussion about a roadmap for the launch of the UK architectural salvage trade association.
Download the colour version in Acrobat pdf format (link below).
The print version will be mailed to SalvoNEWS paper subscribers on Fri 22 Jun 2007.
A UK SalvoNEWS subscription is GBP50 (free to Salvo Code dealers) and includes access to SalvoWEB Trade Ads, SalvoEMAILS and a complimentary entry on the online Salvo Directory. Subscribers can receive just the print edition, or the pdf edition, or both. Overseas print copies are sent by surface mail to save energy.
PLEASE NOTE: Update on Red Card training day, Thursday 28th Jun at Knebworth, followed by testing and accreditation on Friday 29th Jun at Knebworth:
So far four people have booked to go on the inaugural 'Red Card' certificate of competence for reclamation and salvage operatives course set up by Martin Morrell of CITB and Howard Button of NFDC. Please book now by phone (020 8400 6222 or 01225 422300) or email thornton at salvoweb dot com if you or your staff would like to participate.
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JOBS AT THE BRE RESOURCE EFFICIENCY CENTRE
Vacancies at the BRE
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Two Positions within Resource Efficiency Centre
Salaries dependent on skills and experience
BRE is the UK's leading centre of expertise, providing consultancy, testing and research services across all aspects of the built environment. Our experts have extensive knowledge and experience of the complex issues associated with sustainable development at every stage, from design to demolition. The Resource Efficiency Centre undertakes consultancy and research on reclaimed building materials.
We work with developers and designers, clients and Government agencies on individual buildings, large developments and major regeneration schemes in all building sectors including education, health, retail and commercial. We also support a number of high-profile corporate clients in delivering their aims as sustainable businesses.
As a result of increased growth, BRE's Resource Efficiency Centre has two vacancies:
Graduate / consultant, Resource Efficiency Centre
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Enthusiastic, committed and capable graduate or consultant required to help deliver a high standard of project work within the Centre. You will have a construction, environmental or resource management related degree or similar qualification. Effective time and project management capabilities are imperative, as is data handling experience and report writing. Experience within the construction and/or resource management field is an advantage but not essential as training and mentoring will be provided.
Senior consultant, Resource Efficiency Centre
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Building specialist required with an interest in sustainability and the environmental performance of buildings. The successful applicant will have a construction, environmental or resource management related degree or similar qualification, supplemented by a solid understanding of the building design and construction process. You will be self motivated with good team working skills and the confidence to initiate a project and see it through to a successful completion.
Building professionals with 2-5 years practical experience will be considered. Preference will be given to applicants who can demonstrate strong project management and/or business development skills.
To apply for any of the above posts, please send your CV and covering letter stating which role you are interested in to: Mabel Udoh (udohm at bre dot co dot uk).
Email applications are preferred, however you may also apply by post to: Mabel Udoh, BRE Environment, Bucknalls Lane, Garston, Watford, Herts, WD25 9XX
Closing date: Friday 29th June 2007
BRE is an equal opportunities employer
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 SALVONEWS 259 TUESDAY 27TH JUNE 2006
Salvo Fair edition, exhibitors, safety, talks and workshops.
Download the colour version in Acrobat pdf format (link below)
The black and white printed version was mailed to SalvoNEWS paper subscribers on Monday 26th June together with free tickets to the trade morning on Friday 30th June.
A UK SalvoNEWS subscription is GBP50 (free to Salvo Code dealers) and includes access to SalvoWEB Trade Ads and SalvoEMAILS. Subscribers can receive just the print edition, or the pdf edition, or both. Overseas print copies are sent by surface mail to save energy.
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STRATEGIC APPROACH TO CONSTRUCTION WASTE - QUESTIONNAIRE
Gilli Hobbs
Watford
23rd June 2006
Dear All
We are undertaking a one year pilot project which aims to provide guidance to the BREW programme on future actions needed to reduce construction waste and increase resource efficiency in the construction industry.
An initial task of the project is to conduct a questionnaire survey to investigate industry's views of the gaps in information and support mechanisms.
If you would like to input to this, the survey, which should take about 10 minutes to complete and submit, can be found by clicking on the link below.
All survey responses must be received by 5pm on Friday 14th July 2006.
If you would like further information about the project, please contact me.
Kind Regards
Gilli Hobbs, Resource Efficiency, BRE, Bucknalls Lane, Watford, WD25 9XX
tel: 01923 664856
fax: 01923 664104
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TALKS, WORKSHOPS AND DEMONSTRATIONS AT SALVO FAIR
This year's Salvo Fair at Knebworth will include workshops, demonstrations and talks by the trade.
Here are some examples:
Sanitaryware by Norman Cockroft of Alscot Bathrooms on the stand of Thomas Crapper & Co - How to clean stained baths bogs and basins, and when to call in the professionals.
Old cast iron radiators by Andy Triplow of the Old Radiator Company, Kent - How to clean them, test them and adapt them to modern heating systems.
Old English Rose & Paul kitchens by Tom Donaldson of Source, Somerset - Making 1950's aluminium kitchens fit for the modern home.
Antique keys and locks by Michael Brown of Lock Restoration Co, Strathclyde - How locks work, maintaining your old locks, repairs and keymaking.
Stained glass and leaded lights by Edgar Phillips of the Stained Glass Group, West Midlands - How to seal leaky windows, painting and firing, making hangers 'while-u-wait'.
Penny Farthing racing by Simon Kirby of Thomas Crapper & Co, Warwickshire - Mr. Kirby will take on all-comers. Probably late afternoon when the field is quieter.
Traditional beam hewing by Wocko The Woodman of Knebworth - Slow but steady oak and chestnut beam hewing workshops, lasting all day between well-earned rests.
Reflex Reaction Challenge by Ronnie Wootton of MDS Ltd, West Midlands - Mr. Wootton, World Champion, who beat the Parachute Regiment at Malvern Show, will take on all-comers.
The Square Mile Project by James Rylands of Sotheby's on the stand of Extreme Architecture from Kent - The successful sale of the Baltic Exchange and other buildings like it is vital if more is to be saved. Dennis Buggins of Extreme Architecture will be there and is bringing parts of these buildings. Overseas and top-end dealers are welcome to the talk on Friday morning, and all construction professionals to the talk on Friday afternoon.
If you are planning to have a stand at the fair and have an idea for an event please contact Thornton Kay of Salvo. Tel 020 8400 6222.
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 SALVO FAIR 2005 DEALER SURVEY RESULTS
This year's Salvo fair was deemed a success by almost everyone. It may have been the better weather or the £20,000 spent on marketing, compared to £5,000 last year, which resulted in a doubling in the visitor numbers to 4,000, perhaps the minimum needed to produce a feel-good factor for the trade. Some dealers made a huge effort to support the fledgling show, with Jason Davies and Ed Pearce once again gaining top marks for effort with a pitch covering an acre that contained four articsful of salvage.
The fair started at 10am on Saturday and ran through to 5pm Sunday. One stand dropped out for the Sunday, and most were beginning to clear up at around 4pm on the Sunday, although people were still buying. Generally, it seems as though Saturday was a stronger buying day, but some had their best day on Sunday. There were more dealers around on Saturday, and a few journalists, amongst whom stalwarts included the Evening Standard, and this year two Italians came from Salvo's long-time Italian colleagues at Stefano Trentini's the Rome-based Casa Antica magazine.
One of the shows star attractions, a pair of nine feet high birds carved from a single piece of wood, on offer from Olliffs Architectural in Bristol for £8,500, sold on Saturday for an undisclosed sum to Cronins Reclamation of Surrey. Despite interest in both George V's bath and the Shanks canopy once owned by Elaine Page, neither sold during the show.
On the Saturday evening there was an impromptu exhibitors get together which resulted, according to one present, in some of the assembly seeing in the dawn 'before returning to Hotel Guantanomo in a state of glorious confusion'.
Of the forty dealers who came, 16 completed an online survey. three-quarters said this year's fair was good or excellent, half sold between £5,000 to £10,000 over the weekend and all were expecting similar post-fair sales. Several dealers asked for a better demarcated trade v public opening, so we will probably make part of Friday an official trade day next year. This year over twenty dealers popped into the organiser's tent to request details of pitch prices, which bodes well for next year. There will probably be a new range of pitch sizes and prices next year too, and to quash this year's complaints from the anti-metric lobby pitches will be sold in old pre-Imperial areas - rods, roods and vergees - with some ancient Egyptian and Chinese thrown in for good measure.
Finally, for those whose concern for Salvo's finances is touching, we once again inevitably lost money on the Salvo Fair, but at least this time the show was deemed universally successful, and as the fair builds and we gradually fine tune our marketing budget we hope to move into profit (some time in 2025!). Next year's fair will be held on 1st and 2nd July 2006.
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SALVO FAIR . . . VISIT OR WEBCAST?
LIVE WEBCAST this weekend at www.salvo-fair.com
Visit if you can, if not try the webcast on Saturday starting at 11am. You will be able to see photos of stock, then phone the exhibitor on their stand, then ask for more photos showing details. You can even buy by phone . . . But we do not recommend that.
Late additions to the exhibitor list include one of the UK's best small iron bridge builders and gate restorers, an old pine dealer, and a major Tyneside salvager.
If you missed any of the stories about dealers coming to the fair, want to see the full exhibitor list or any other details, check out the website.
See you there!
Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd July, £6.50, 11am - 5pm
Knebworth House, Hertfordshire, J7, A1(M)
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SALVONEWS 253 . . . SALVO FAIR EDITION
Contents include: Salvo Fair Knebworth Sat 2 July and Sun 3 July . . . Cox's, Crapper, Cronin, Cast Iron Rec, Chancellors, Normand, Olliff (sorry that's all we could fit in) . . . see you there!
Other stories include the possible Spring 2006 Olympia Fair architectural and garden enclave, Lassco, West Yorks Architectural and Abacus Stone, Retrouvius at Battersea, Ascot Racecourse Gates, Grand Designs Mills and Masco combo, Gaze Bygones and Architectural (Mr Willows will be at Salvo Fair on the Sunday) and last but not least Sotheby's Billingshurst post their best ever result - £2.3m hammer and afters - and Rylands explains why he and Werff felt like naughty schoolboys, plus more snippets including Michael Brown, renowned Scottish locksmith who is coming to this year's Salvo Fair and will mend locks and make old keys while u wait. He will also buy old keys if you have any. It's all happening . . .
Download the colour version in Acrobat pdf format (link below).
The black and white printed version was being printed today, then DISASTER . . the printer broke with only 100 to go. So, apologies, as some of you will have to wait a while for the print version, but most UK subscribers should receive it by Tuesday 28 July.
A UK SalvoNEWS subscription is GBP50 (free to Salvo Code dealers) and includes SalvoEMAILS. Subscribers can receive just the print edition, or the pdf edition, or both. All overseas print copies are now sent by surface mail, not air mail, to save energy.
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SALVO FAIR RADIO AD
LISTENERS throughout Bucks, Beds, Herts on Hertbeat FM, and parts of Berks, London, Middlesex and Oxon on Chiltern FM will be receiving the rustically musical Salvo ad all next week and weekend. Others may hear it on the Salvo Fair web site. Listen to a preview below.
'It sounds really magical - like Lord of the Rings,' one twenty year old commented.
[The ad was crafted by Nico Brown
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 NICKEL TAPS FROM MR NORMAND AT SALVO
PATRICK Normand will be bringing a rummageworthy collection of brassware to Salvo. 'I've only just finished polishing some of the stuff from the drenching it got last time,' he said, referring to the scattered showers that punctured an otherwise blissfully sunny Salvo 2004 last July. This year he is taking the precaution of hiring an on-site marquee.
Sanitation was uppermost in the minds of Victorian England's medical institutions, and nickel-plated brassware deemed second rate, so solid nickel taps were often specified in hospitals.
Patrick is bringing ten pairs of solid nickel bathroom basin taps, at £90 a pair, from an institution near Brighton c1889, complete with a few matching sinks at £250 with cantilever brackets.
'By 1900 nickel and chrome plating was more reliable and solid nickel was phased out. The plating problem was resolved by plating a layer coppery nickel on the brass first, and then putting a layer of silver-nickel on top,' Patrick said.
He is also bringing a rare set of 40 pairs of matching oval door knobs with cast coppery bases, dated around 1915, and some wooden locks dating from 1870, and two rather earlier models from 1830, currently without keys - but Michael Brown, another exhibitor at Salvo, is a traditional locksmith who will provide keys on site for anything 'from a petite jewellery box to a parish church monster' at the fair.
[Photos: Patrick Normand gives away a brass and porcelain room number from an old nurses accommodation block with a purchase on his Salvo Fair stand, and the detail shows him polishing a solid nickel tap 'Approved by the Metropolitan Water Board'.
Patrick Normand, Surrey. Tel 01483 892984
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 LLANDAFF CATHEDRAL CARVINGS AT KNEBWORTH
CHANCELLORS, the antique church specialists from Surrey, will be bringing three carved wood panels forming pediments or spandrels, that came from a recent clear-out at Llandaff Cathedral.
The carving is overblown naturalised foliage, carved both sides of the pediments, and typical of the Victorian Arts & Crafts movement, but its date and carver are unknown.
Each spandrel is 6ft across and 18in high, believed to have come from the choir of the cathedral, and stored since its devastating bombing on 2nd January 1940. After Coventry, Llandaff Cathedral was the second most bomb damaged in second world war Britain.
'We collected a pile of woodwork from an outbuilding,' Steve Williams of Chancellors said. 'and there was some other woodwork which was much finer, which we've sold, but these panels are left. They are curious and bizarre, not what you would expect in a Cathedral. Not looking English or Welsh. There were four, we had another panel depicting the Lamb of God but that sold.'
Rosetti painted an altar-piece tryptych, and Burne Jones some stained glass, among a number of craftspeople and artists supplying Llandaff during its Victorian restoration by Sneddon - and maybe this woodwork had something to do with that.
The three panels will be on offer at £200 each at Salvo Fair along with Chancellors normal offerings of pews, lecterns, lighting, vestments, and other church paraphernalia.
[Photos: Steve Williams of Chancellors by one of the big carved foliate spandrels, two more and a detail, and a shot of the inside of part of their warehouse in Surrey
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 ELAINE PAGE'S CANOPY BATH COMES TO SALVO
THIS year will be the fourth year running that Cronins Reclamation have exhibited at the Salvo Fair. They usually bring a good mix of architectural and decorative antiques, some reclaimed materials, and the odd rustic feature - like a giant copper cheese vat.
This year's star attraction will be a fully restored Shanks and Co cast iron and zinc canopy shower bath, c1910, which comes complete with its orginal hardwood enclosure at 6ft 6in long and standing 7ft 6in high, and selling for £12,500 +vat. The bath came from a house off the King's Road, Chelsea, installed in the home of Sir Frank Lowe, and subsequently owned by the actress and singer Elaine Page of 'Don't Cry for Me Argentina' fame.
Damian Cronin will also be bringing Parquets de Versailles flooring panels handmade using reclaimed old French oak, which is a new range which they will both supply and fit.
He and John Bodrell of Cast Iron Reclamation Co have started a new business called Woodstone dealing in reclaimed stone and wood flooring.
[Photo: Damian Cronin of Cronins Reclamation in Surrey and the Shanks canopy bath, c1910, on sale at Salvo Fair for £12,500, that was once owned by Elaine Page
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 OLLIFFS TO BRING GIANT BIRDS TO SALVO
MARCUS and Jane Olliff have just jettisoned their posh Bristol shop in favour of a warehouse, the internet and trade shows like the Salvo Fair. In order to make a bit of a splash, this being their first time exhibiting at Salvo Fair, they have decided to bring three huge avians.
The biggest is a pair of 8ft 6in carved hardwood eagles, possibly from the Philippines, that were imported into England about twenty year's ago, then sold to an English dealer who retired to France with them, where Marcus rediscovered them on one of his buying jaunts and brought them back to Bristol. He believes they may have had a religious significance, originally polychrome and made in the 1930's, they still have traces of brightly painted red eyes and green stylised foliage pedestals. They will be for sale at Salvo for £8,500.
The idea of Faye Dunaway stripped off for a bubble bath is enough to get most men of a certain age excited, and it was this that persuaded Marcus to part with £1,100 for a fibreglass swan bath, supposedly featuring the said star in an old film version of The Four Musketeers. Despite much research, unless the scene was filmed and ended on the cutting room floor, the alleged provenance remains unconfirmed. The bath is now in a rather sorry state, albeit still decidely swan-like (not swan lake), and needs £500 spent to bring it back to its former glory. We asked Marcus not to tosh it, but to trundle it down the motorway to Knebworth as is, and ask for best offers at the fair.
Jane was hoping to create a flight of fancy on their stand at Knebworth, with many other bird-related objets. However, once their pickup has been enveloped in the foregoing three Sinbadian feathery monsters, will they have room for much more? Yes, is the answer.
SALVO FAIR
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When: Saturday 2nd July and Sunday 3rd July, 11am to 5pm
Where: Knebworth House, Hertfordshire.
Admission: £6.50 redeemable against purchases of more than £100 Pitch prices: 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.
Visitor numbers: This year 10,000 visitors are expected (last year 2,500 came).
Hotels: The nearest 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.
Get there: By Car A1(M) J7. By rail Stevenage. By Air Luton Airport 5mls. Stansted and Heathrow, about an hour.
[Photo: Marcus and Jane O with swan bath, and two carved wood birds]
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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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 KING GEORGE V'S BATH COMES TO SALVO FAIR
SIMON Kirby, managing director of Thomas Crapper & Co, is bringing the original cast iron roll top bath used by George V and Queen Mary in the Royal Train.
The story goes, most convincingly, that in 1915 His Majesty undertook a morale-boosting tour around wartime England, whether this was before or after breaking his pelvis in a fall from a horse while on a trip to inspect the troops at the front, we do not know. The normal routine of blagging overnight accommodation at the nearest stately home was not deemed possible owing to the shortage of servants being dispatched to the Somme. So overnighters and on-board ablutions were required.
The bath has silver-plated taps, remote plunger waste and silent steamless water inlet, and will be on offer at the Salvo Fair priced at £14,500. Simon bought the bath at an auction of stuffed animals in Cornwall, notable for the presence and enthusiatic bidding of Harry Hills. The restoration has been undertaken with no expense spared, as is Mr Kirby's wont, with most pieces being replated in silver.
The Thomas Crapper stand at the Salvo Fair will also feature florally-decorated Victorian and Edwardian WC pans of the £1,000 to £2,000 variety, and some more modest items of antique sanitaryware for the less discerning and well off. It is hoped that comedian Tim Fitzhigham's 'Row a Victorian bath across the English Channel for charity' Thomas Crapper shower bath will also be on display, collecting money for Sport Relief.
[Photo: Simon Kirby and the roll top bath with silver-plated plumbing and taps, from the bathroom of King George V and Queen Mary in the Royal Train
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SALVO FAIR - BOOK PITCHES AND HOTEL NOW!
Salvo Fair, Knebworth, Hertfordshire, 2+3 July 2005.
BOOK NOW TO BE IN THE FAIR GUIDE
Fax or post a signed booking form before April 31st to ensure that your business appears in the Salvo Fair 2005 guide. Over 9,000 print and pdf copies of the Salvo Fair 2004 guide have been sent out.
BOOK YOUR HOTEL ROOM NOW
Novotel inform us that 100 of the 120 rooms are now booked. Book you room today if you want to stay at the Novotel Stevenage. Any remaining rooms may be reserved by another company on Monday 11th April. Call Novotel on 01438 346100 and quote Salvo.
We have printed a promotional flyer/postcard for the fair. If you don't mind having a few to stick on a counter to give away to punters, please let us know! Call Ruby on 020 8761 2316.
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SALVO FAIR: LAST CHANCE FOR DISCOUNTS
DON'T MISS OUT - BOOK A PITCH TODAY
Phone Ruby Kay on 020 8761 2316 to pay by credit or debit card.
Deadline for discounts is January 31st.
Salvo Fair, Knebworth, Hertfordshire
2 + 3 July 2005
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SALVO FAIR - 2 + 3 JULY 2005
BOOK TODAY!
Four big pitches have been booked for Knebworth next year. Book now and pay in January for the lowest prices. Call Ruby Kay on 020 8761 2316 or download a booking form.
BIG PITCH - 1200sqft
(artics, box vans, big trailers)
Antique/Reclaimed GBP450 inc vat
New/Repro GBP590 inc vat
SMALL PITCH - 400sqft
(cars, pickups, small vans)
Antique/Reclaimed GBP300 inc vat
New/Repro GBP410 inc vat
DISCOUNTS
Pay before January 31st less GBP60. Repeat bookings by 2004 exhibitors less GBP60.
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SALVO FAIR 2004
Salvo Fair 2004 programme (pdf file)
Contents include: The Salvo List of 275 hand hints for happier hunting, Salvo Fair scrapbook - a nostalgic look back at Salvo fairs from 1997 to 2003, Salvo Fair 2004 Exhibitor List (correct at 26 May 2004), the Salvo Code dealer list, classified and display ads.
Download the colour version in Acrobat pdf format (link below). The colour printed version was mailed to SalvoNEWS and SALVO mag paper subscribers on Mon 14 June.
NOTE: Since going to press Neville Griffiths of Rococo has announced that unfortunately he will be unable able to bring the Victorian conservatory to Knebworth.
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