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 ESALVO FRIDAY 19 OCTOBER 2007
Baptist Tabernacle from Swindon to Swindon via Northants
ROD Bluh, Swindon council leader, has bagged a prominent piece of architectural stone salvage - the pedimented giant order colonnade of Swindon's old Baptist Tabernacle built in 1886. The bath stone building was demolished in 1978 and bought by Stanley Frost who had planned to use it to build a house in Malmesbury. He moved the 300 tonnes of stone portico to a field. After ten years had elapsed with no sign of a rebuild his son, Alan Frost, hawked the ensemble around west country salvage yards (I remember it being offered to Walcot in the 1980's - ed) and when there were still no takers he finally advertised it on SalvoWEB in 1996. Eventually Neill Taylor saw it and bought it, moved it to Northants, and set about trying to get planning permission for it to be adapted as a house. Then a shopping centre planned for Swindon needed a centrepiece and Rod Bluh heard about it, contacted Mr. Taylor and persuaded his fellow councillors to dig deep. Neill Taylor was paid £340,000 and the whole shabang was moved back to Swindon - or Wroughton Airfield to be precise. "I was sorry to see it go," Neill said. "Since buying it seven year's ago, after finding an old ad at the back of SalvoWEB, I have moved it around my yard three times and come to know it intimately. But I am very happy that it will be rebuilt in Swindon." Neill Taylor, a developer who has used a good deal of salvage over the years, is now thinking about seriously going into salvage himself by starting a yard.
Source find new premises
ROD Donaldson has bagged a prominent acre site in central Bath with a dozen big workshops, which he is currently refurbing prior to relocating Source's English Rose antique kitchen empire, so he has workshops and showrooms on one site. "It all happened recently at a fiftieth birthday party," Rod said. "Don Foster (Bath's MP) asked 'How's it going?' and I said it would be fine if I could find a decent premises, so he called over the owner of this site and we did a deal. It suited him to have a tenant as the place was getting vandalised." So that's how to do it. Source now has a five year lease on the entire Victoria Park Business Centre.
D & P Theodore certified with Green Dragon EMS
D & P THEODORE Sons and Daughters Building Salvage and Reclamation, aka The Chimneypot Man, of Bridgend, Glamorgan, is one of a thousand Welsh businesses who have been certified by Groundworks with their new Green Dragon Environmental Management System. This requires businesses to be aware of the impact they have on the local and global environment, to keep compliant with legislation, to prevent pollution, and to be subjected to an annual review by Groundworks. Dennis Theodore writes, "Unfortunately, Green Dragon EMS is only available for the people from God's chosen country. There may be similar schemes elsewhere. It sounded time-consuming with a lot of paperwork but once we had started with the Groundwork Trust it required limited time from Pat and myself over four visits and we now have a nice certificate, a little paperwork and an annual visit."
Dorset recycled wood exported to Germany
ECO Sustainable Solutions Ltd, aka Eco-Composting, has sold 2,000 tonnes of woodchips from Dorset waste transfer stations to one of the 50 waste-to-energy biomass plants in Germany where it will provide enough energy to power 5,000 homes for six weeks. Eco Composting has applied for planning to build a £7 million biomass plant at Parley which would a first for the UK and would generate 2.7MW from 25,000 tonnes of wood a year. (We have asked what percentage of the wood was demolition timber which could have been reused, or how much energy it took to chip the wood and transport it to Germany. The company are looking into it and will get back to us.)
AUCTIONS
Architectural salvage Diss Norfolk, 20 October 2007, T W Gaze. Tel 01379 650306.
Stained glass from St Paul's Denholme, 5 December 2007, Hartleys. Tel 01943 816363.
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