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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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 FLAGSTONE RECORD AT GAZE'S
'THERE was light drizzle all day,' Carl Willows said, referring to the architectural salvage sale of T W Gaze at Diss on 18 August 2007, 'but stock market jitters seemed to be having a discernible impact, even though garden benches which had been struggling at other Gaze sales this year went very well, one lot of York stone flagstones sold for £145 which broke our auction flagstone record, and a Victorian marble bath used by young Japanese ladies doubled its estimate to become the sale's top lot at £5400 inc premiums and vat selling to the UK trade with a US underbidder.'
At a time when Christie's has shunted its buyer's premium to 25 per cent, and many provincial UK auction houses have pushed theirs up to 15 per cent, Gaze has this year held its buyer's premium at 10 per cent. It's seller's premium is 10 per cent on lots up to £500, and 5 per cent above that.
The next Gaze sale is the Rural and Domestic Bygones on Saturday 8th September at which Mr Willows says, 'There will be the usual old mix . . . and this time some nice handcarts consigned by Mr. Peter Watson of Cox's Yard in Gloucestershire.'
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 BALTIC EXCHANGE SELLS TO ESTONIA VIA SALVO FAIR AND A SALVOWEB AD
THE Baltic Exchange has been bought via an ad on SalvoWEB for around the asking price of £750,000 from Extreme Architecture of Kent by two Estonian businessmen, Eerik-Niiles Kross and Heiti Haar, and has been shipped to Tallinn where it will be rebuilt as part of a prestige office and housing development.
"This is the largest chunk of architectural salvage to have found a home via the internet," said Thornton Kay, one of the two partners of Salvo Llp, the London and Bath based global information network for demolished buildings. "SalvoWEB was set up in 1994 and is the oldest salvage site on the web. We were there before Yell and eBay, and we still attract more visitors than either - around 14,000 a day - in our sector of the market."
"The 1902 Baltic Exchange in the City of London was where the world's shipping was handled inside a massive marble-clad trading hall with a classical frontage, which was photographed, marked up, carefully dismantled and trucked to warehouses in Reading after the blast from an IRA bomb knocked it off its footings in 1992. The plan was to rebuild it, but during that period the shipping floor became an anachronism, so after a lot of umming and ahhing the insurers were given permission to build what has become Norman Foster's iconic Gherkin on the site."
"Then English Heritage tried to sell the old building intact, but failed, so eventually it was put on the market and bought first by North Wales salvage dealer Derek Davies, who shipped the 50 or more artic loads from Reading to Cheshire. Derek advertised the Baltic Exchange in SalvoNEWS. Restorer and dealer Dennis Buggins, of Extreme Architecture in Kent, bought it from Derek and then moved the whole lot to various farm buildings and barns around Canterbury."
"Every year we hold the world's only architectural salvage fair at Knebworth in July, so last year Dennis booked the biggest stand at the fair and brought some of the Baltic Exchange, including the 40ft long stone pediment carvings. We commissioned performance artist Mark McGowan to highlight our 'Reclamation before Recycling' campaign, and he chose to do this by somersaulting from the Gherkin to Knebworth, which took him an arduous two weeks, arriving at Knebworth during the Salvo Fair."
"Salvo Fair is organised by Ruby Kay, my daughter, with the help of siblings Boz Kay, Beth Kay, Poppy Kay and Lily Kay, and of course me - the ageing Dad. The next one will be held next weekend (Fri 29 Jun trade day, and Sat 30 June and Sun 1 July), and we hope that it will not only encourage people to think about reuse of old building materials, rather than their destruction in landfill, but persuade them come and buy. Five hundred tons of materials will be available for sale on five acres of Knebworth's deer park just off the A1(M) in Hertfordshire. This year there will be a load of interesting stuff including parts of the old Royal Box at Ascot, flagstones from Paternoster Square and Lord Snowdon's London Zoo aviary, a possible Roman stone aqueduct from France, a pillar box from Mortlake, ten brutalist 1960's stone planters from Stevenage town centre, and even some bits of old Serbian smokehouses"
"Eerik-Niiles Kross, the Tallinn businessman and historian who at one time ran Estonia's secret service and represented Estonia at NATO talks, was trawling SalvoWEB on the internet for reclaimed flooring at the time of last year's Salvo Fair, and came across the ad for the Baltic Exchange. He is the son of one of Estonia's most famous authors, Jaan Kross, who was incarcerated as a patriot in 1944 by the Nazi's, before being captured by the Red army in 1946 and spending eight years in a Siberian gulag, only being allowed home when Stalin died."
"I had not realised quite how good the Estonians had become on the web. For example they invented Skype, and they are now the most informed state in Europe on state-wide ddos attacks after Russian government servers tried to bring their entire network down last year. This was after the Estonians moved a prominent Russsian war memorial into a cemetery, upsetting the Russians who live in Estonia."
"I guess that Kross and his partner, Heiti Haal, see the rebuilding of the Baltic Exchange in Tallinn as a kind of bricks-and-mortar political statement, establishing a feature building that not only creates another dimension to the architecture of Tallinn, much of which is Soviet, but also pointedly brings a physical part of the financial culture of the West bang up against the Russian border. The Baltic countries have put on a brave face against intimidation by the Russians for decades."
"Interestingly, the movement of reclaimed materials around Europe has been gathering momentum, in the UK partly due to the stupidity of the government spending hundreds of millions in the past ten years crushing bricks and chipping reusable demolition wood as mulch. The shortage of local materials means that we now import reclaimed flooring and bricks from Estonia, so it is fitting that we should export an architectural icon back to them. Although you could argue that it makes no sense in climate change terms to move materials long distances, moving old bricks 1000 miles by ship expends a fraction of the energy used in making new ones, so it is still beneficial to the environment. The UK salvage trade were world pioneers and are still, despite the difficulties, probably world leaders."
"We use 3,000 million new bricks a year in the UK, and we destroy 3,000 million old ones, and every 12 bricks embodies the energy of a gallon of petrol - so where's the logic of that? The UK salvage trade rescue around 130 million of these bricks, for which they receive no subsidy, while WRAP - the UK government quango - gives millions of pounds a year to help crush reusable old bricks. Ten years ago none were crushed, now probably 2 billion or more are crushed every year. We have written to successive ministers of state, including David Milliband, but without success. The government would be better off tipping the bricks whole into landfill, because then at least they could be mined and reused in 100 years time, and they would not be wasting the huge amount of fossil fuel that it takes to crush them all."
"Derek Davies and Dennis Buggins should be congratulated for their tenacity in taking on the Baltic Exchange project and successfully concluding it. Three times Dennis has nearly sold the Baltic Exchange, for a home in Long Island NY, for a housing and office scheme at Greenwich UK, and to the developers of London's Battersea power station. These two guys succeeded when the combined forces of the City of London, Swiss Re, English Heritage and UK conservation movement failed to achieve its relocation. At one stage it looked as if the fabulous marble would be turned into kitchen work surfaces, and the stone would be landfilled. Now at least the building has been kept intact and will be appreciated. When it is no longer required in Tallinn in a hundred years time, who knows, someone may buy it and bring it back to blighty!"
Thornton Kay
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 WINDOWS BUILT TO LAST
Dominique Clothier has launched a campaign web site against the needless trashing of old UK wooden windows, recommending that instead of replacing perfectly serviceable windows people should repair their old windows instead. The web site is called Built to Last, and contains simple advice, useful links and requests for news stories and case studies.
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 RECLAMATION RED CARD DAY AT SALVO FAIR
The Construction Skills Red Card for reclamation and salvage on CDM demolition sites will be inaugurated on Fri Jun 29 2007 at Salvo Fair, Knebworth. Application forms will be available, and a representative of the NFDC (National Federation of Demolition Contractors) will be on hand to discuss how this will benefit salvage firms, their employees and any self-employed reclaimers.
The Red Card training consists of four parts:
1. Demolition safety awareness (4hrs)
2. Asbestos awareness (4hrs)
3. Individual test (1hr)
4. Touch screen CSCS Health and Safety test (1hr at any driving test centre)
The first three parts will be carried out by the NFDC training team, but part 4 must be taken at a driving test centre.
Howard Button, NFDC secretary, has kindly offered to arrange a training session at Knebworth during the Salvo Fair for up to 25 people. Parts 1 and 2 will be held on Thursday 28 June. Part 3, a 1hr individual test, will be held the following day on Friday 29 June, the Salvo Fair trade day.
The cost will be £165 per person. Successful candidates will be given the Red Card after they have completed part 4, a 1hr CSCS construction health and safety touch screen test. This can be taken at any UK driving test centre and costs an additional £17.50. The Red Card will be valid for five years.
If you, or your staff, would like to book a place on the Knebworth training session please contact Salvo on 020 8400 6222 or email thornton at salvoweb dot com
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MAY AUCTIONS AND FAIRS
THOS Wm Gaze & Sons in Diss, Norfolk, sale of architectural salvage and statuary will be held at 10am on 19th May, run by expert in charge Carl Willows, and this time round has a fine Arts & Crafts oak porch (est £200) among the 1,000 or so lots.
Sotheby's Billingshurst is apparently going to be turned into luxury flats and houses but before that it will host a spring sale on 22nd May of antique garden ornament, fossils and modern sculpture, and this time four olive trees in wood planters (est £4k).
Christie's South Kensington's Toby Woolley will sell a load of garden and architectural items collected by Mike Roberts on 23rd May, including terracotta, statuary, a large number of lanterns, and several fireplaces. The top ranked lot is a pair of Coade ovoid urn finials (est £20k).
Drewette Neate have a garden section at the Csaky house sale in Stockbridge, Hampshire, on 22nd May. Fleury Antiques, who have had a year's worth of sales, are now advertising a clearance sale on 15th and 16th May in Cahir, Co Tipperary, of decorative antiques probably including some architectural and garden. David Erquhart of Posterity in Herefordshire is having his annual auction on 20th May at 12.30pm. Watsons in Heathfield, East Sussex is holding a 500 lot sale of garden and architectural salvage and repro on 18th May. As if this is not enough, Swinderby is on 29th and 30th May, followed by Newark on 31st May and 1st June.
After a long absence (who knows what happened to Kevin Scott) Bonhams have decided to hold a garden sale on 6th June and an architectural sale on 21st July in Henley.
Chelsea Flower Show is being held from 22nd to 26th May and will feature, among others no doubt, Mike Corbett and Triton UK's collection of unique and replica garden ornament, Ed Holloway unrolling the Agos range, Alex Puddy with the antique and new garden ornament of Architectural Heritage, Bulbeck and H. Crowther. Not sure if Hughie Powell and Cotswold Decorative Ironwork will be there this year.
Last but not least, LASSCO Three Pigeons is holding a dealer swap shop sponsored by TVADA but open to all-comers in the car park of its new ex-pub premises at Milton Common in Oxfordshire on Friday 18th May from 12pm to 3pm.
Gaze auctions and other paying advertisers are listed on the Salvo Auction & Event Calendar (see link below)
Brief reports or photos (please ask permission) would be appreciated of any event for future inclusion in SalvoNEWS
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 SALVONEWS 264 TUESDAY 1 MAY 2007
ALAN Powell obituary, Dyfed sale, reclamation 'Red Card', ancient aqueduct at Salvo Fair, Trade Association letters and questionnaire, new CDM regs, Drummonds dry frit, Pine Supplies saw tech masterclass, snippets and theft alerts
This SalvoNEWS is available free on SalvoWEB because it contains the link to the Trade Association questionnaire in which the whole UK trade is invited to participate.
Download the colour version in Acrobat pdf format (link below).
The black and white printed version was mailed to SalvoNEWS paper subscribers on Sat 28 April 2007.
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.
STOP PRESS: Posterity will be holding an auction on Sun 20th May. Tel 01531 636380
ADVERTISE IN THE NEXT SALVONEWS DUE OUT AT THE END OF MAY: The next edition of SalvoNEWS will be the Salvo Fair colour edition and is likely to have a combined print and web circulation in excess of 40,000 copies. Please contact Thornton 020 8400 6222 or Ruby 01225 422300 if you would like to advertise. Current advertisers will of course be included. New advertisers can have display ads only, either 92mm wide by 133mm high for £120 plus vat, or full page A5 for £240 plus vat.
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SALVOEMAILS REPLY PROBLEM
Barry from Bygones in Kent has kindly messaged us about a current problem replying to SalvoEMAILS. He says:
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You seem to have a small problem with your login script, upon first visiting the site (or clearing your site cookies) (in Firefox 1.5.0.6) clicking the "login" link directs me to http ://user.php?login_user=1&login_user=1&/?cookieistested=1 obviously it is missing your domain in the header redirect (I would imagine you are missing $_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"] or something to that effect from the code) but still issuing the cookie to the browser.
By pressing the back button and clicking the "login" link the site then returns the correct login page as I am assuming the condition of the cookie existing is now true.
Barry, Webmaster, Bygones.net
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Thanks Barry. Boz will be back in on Monday and will fix the problem then. Meanwhile I shall post your message on our 'server status' web page.
Thornton, SalvoWEB
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PERIOD LIVING MAGAZINE SALVAGE FEATURE
PERIOD Living magazine intends to start producing a new architectural salvage feature, by writers like Jesse Carrington of Lassco, which will include a showcase page of nine trade display ads.
The magazine is being relaunched following its sale to Centaur, publishers of 'Homebuilding & Renovating' and 'Move or Improve', and the new salvage pages will appear in a new renovation section in the new format mag.
The salvage showcase ads page is intended for dealers in architectural and garden antiques, reclaimed building materials and salvage, and Salvo Code supporting repro businesses.
Period Living has offered to underpin these ads with a promotion of the Salvo Code and inclusion of the crane logo on supporters ads. We are sure this promotion by PL will generate more awareness of the Salvo code and more sales for supporters, in what has been one of the key magazines of choice for trade advertisers ever since the 1980's.
Contact Emma Farrington to advertise on 020 7970 4421.
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SERVER MOVE
Dear Salvoweb Users,
The new server is now up and running.
The users control panel is now online.
If you find any problems on the website please contact Salvo.
Thanks,
Boz Kay
The Salvo Team
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SALVOWEB OFFLINE MONDAY 7TH AUGUST
IMPORTANT message for SalvoWEB users
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Between 9am - 11am Monday 7th August 2006 the old SalvoWEB server will be turned off, the data will be trasnferred and a new improved and bigger server will be turned on. This will mean that for a short time none of the SalvoWEB sites, nor those hosted by Salvo will be available.
The timetable for events is as follows:
Monday 7th August 2006
0900 BST: Old server turned off, data transferred, email addresses transferred. NOTE: No emails will be 'lost' during the transfer.
1100 BST: New server turned on, all web sites will be back up and running but no changes can be made by users, no new items and no deletions.
NOTE: User control panels will be out of action today. There may be short web outages during server restart and tweaking.
Tuesday 8th August 2006
1700 BST: Control panels will be turned back on, with everything functional.
NOTE: User control panels will be out of action until 5pm. There may be short web outages during server restart and tweaking.
Wednesday 9th August 2006
Normal service is resumed.
The timetable above is notional. We hope the transition will be quicker. We are upgrading our server software, operating system and database software at the same time, so there may be hidden issues which will need to be resolved.
We apologise for any incovenience caused during the installation of this new main server at Rackspace. Our current main server is handling an average of 15,000 visitors a day and the images files are very much bigger than they used to be, both of which cause a much bigger load than previously. Hopefully this server should see us through another two years of steady growth.
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 MARK MCGOWAN LIMBERING UP
ARTIST Mark McGowan's next big adventure as artist-in-residence of this year's Salvo Fair starts tomorrow Friday 16th June at 10am from the Gherkin in the city of London, where he will attempt to roll head over heals for 40 miles to the Salvo Fair at Knebworth in Hertfordshire. The endurance event will last over two weeks. Mark is trying to raise awareness about salvage and believes that the current recycling phenomenon will destroy the planet. Mark will have sponge on his head and back and will be carrying an old door and four reclaimed house bricks the entire journey.
For more info and images see the Salvo Fair web site (linked below) 'Press' pages. And see the SalvoNEWS blog (linked below) for updates and more details about Mark and the Fair.
RADIO & TV: Tonight Mark will be on Capital Gold radio at 6.40pm, and tomorrow Channel 5 'The Wright Stuff', BBC 3Counties, BBC Ulster, London Tonight, Capital Gold again, and others, with Richard & Judy joining in later the following week, possibly at the Reclaimed Brick abbey of St Albans. We hope more press may join in on the way and help reinforce the message - 'Reclaim and Reuse, don't destroy and recycle'
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OPEN LETTER TO DAVID MILLIBAND
To Rt Hon David Milliband MP, Environment Minister, UK Government
Dear Mr. Milliband,
I have been involved in reclaiming materials for reuse from demolition since the 1970's. In the past ten years it seems that the volume of material being reclaimed for reuse has been dropping, while recycling has been increasing. Reuse has traditionally been spearheaded by very small businesses. Recycling by very large ones. The reclaimed building material sector is comprised of several hundred small businesses who have no trade representation. The recently formed recycled wood sector with help from WRAP have benefited from subsidies and grants. As a result the amount of wood being reclaimed for reuse has dropped from 700,000 tonnes a year in 1998 (1998 BigREc Survey) to a much smaller figure today, possibly as little as 200,000 tonnes. We do not know the exact figure because Salvo cannot afford to undertake another major trade survey - Salvo is a two person business. Money is poured into subsidised wood recycling, which means mulching, composting and burning wood, a lot of which is highly sought after by the reclamation trade and which five years ago, before the subsidies, was being bought by them.
The reclaimed building materials sector has not been helped with any funding or subsidy, pays taxes and rates, and employs many thousands of people in low and high skilled work. As sources of UK materials dry up, due to recycling, the trade is going abroad to find materials to supply the healthy UK demand. For example, ten years ago the only reclaimed brick you could buy from a local salvage yard was one from a local demolition. Now the reclaimed brick sector are finding it very hard to get UK bricks from demolition so they are topping up supplies from around Europe and last month an Argentinian company was offering bricks from Argentina in the UK. This is not ideal when reclaimable UK bricks are being destroyed.
The embodied energy of the reclaimable materials now being destroyed by recycling is enough to run 10 million UK homes a year. But the true picture is worse because it takes a lot of additional energy to recycle the tens of millions of tonnes of materials that were being reclaimed. In effect, we would better off putting all reusable bricks into landfill whole, so that they can be mined and reclaimed in future, rather than crushing them. The UK makes 3 billion bricks a year and destroys about the same amount, and the reclaimed brick sector saves 150 million bricks for reuse. Ten years ago no bricks were crushed, now probably 3 billion a year are. Every 12 bricks embodies the energy equivalent of a gallon of petrol. So just in bricks we are destroying 4 Buncefields-worth* of energy a year. Add up all the reusable materials and it comes to one Buncefield a week.
This year, at the Salvo fair, we are holding a construction professionals afternoon, where we will be launching a new book by Bill Addis on 'Building with Reclaimed', and a new product from Green Works of flooring from desktops, and to which journalists have been invited. We would be delighted if you could come and meet some of the trade. It is on the afternoon of Friday 30th June at Knebworth.
Yours sincerely,
Thornton Kay
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*Buncefield was the oil depot in Hertfordshire where 60 million gallons of aviation fuel were destroyed in 2005. See link below.
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SALVOEMAILS TESTING
Testing the email system. Please ignore this email. The Salvo Team
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SALVO 2006 WALLPLANNER - ADS FOR SALE!
If you sell to the trade, professionals or public, why not try a wallplanner ad this year.
The Salvo 2006 wallplanner features an Antique Door Poster on the back, which will show hundreds of photos of antique and salvaged doors and lots of useful information about doors.
Ad sizes and prices are:
GBP£480 +vat 250mm by 80mm
GBP£240 +vat 250mm by 40mm
GBP£120 +vat 120mm by 40mm
GBP70 +vat 60mm by 40mm
The 2006 wallplanner, with approx 1000 print copies and 8,000 online viewers, will be printed on A1 recycled paper with vegetable inks. The wallplanner will be sent to Salvo subscribers and design professionals and given away at the Salvo Fair next year. The ads will also appear on the new Salvo Online Calendar which is expected to receive around 8,000 over the next year.
Ads must be booked by Friday 4 November. Phone 020 8761 2316 or 020 8400 6222.
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 GAZE BYGONES 17 SEP 05 AD
Catalogue link to follow
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 T W GAZE ARCHITECTURAL SALVAGE AUCTION
10am Saturday 27 August 2005, auction sale of 1400 lots of Architectural Salvage & Garden Statuary, at T W Gaze, Norfolk UK. Phone 01379 650306. Fax 01379 644313. Email sales@dissauctionrooms-dot-co-dot-uk Thos. Wm. Gaze & Son, Diss Auction Rooms, Roydon Road, Diss, Norfolk IP22 4LN
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SALVONEWS IS COMING!
Sorry about the delay . . . the Salvo Fair, a huge ongoing website update, brief summer holidays and a brand new production computer with a suite of brand new software have slowed things to a crawl. However, all the SalvoNews ads are currently being redone in the new format and hopefully sn254 will be with subscribers within the next couple of weeks.
Please keep emailing stories, ads and letters.
Once again, apologies, TK
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Date Created : 16 Aug 2005 13:12:25
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CREDIT CARD FRAUD ALERT
This morning a person reputing to be from a London salvage business tried to buy reclaimed building materials including bricks and slates using a credit card believed to be fraudulent. The name given sounded Irish, but the accent was from London.
If any suspicious people contact you call your local CID.
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Date Created : 03 Aug 2005 11:21:56
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KEYLOGGERS AND CYBER CROOKS
KEYLOGGERS are the latest spyware programs to watch out for. They are sent as image files like jpegs, via the web or email. When these image files are opened on your computer a small program also starts that records each key you type and sends the information to a remote address. Keyloggers are associated with spam from banks, spam connected with the Tsunami, and are also known to operate on auction sites like eBay.
In short, they will forward your online bank account details and password to crooks around the world. They are often, but not exclusively sent with spam claiming to come from Paypal or a bank, asking you to check your account. You go to the genuine bank account, login, and bingo . . . the crooks have everything they need to rob your account. Keyloggers are known that can attack all computers including PC's and Macs running OSX.
A good precaution is to change your email preferences so that you cannot receive emails as html but as plain text only. It is also best to send all attached files to a folder where they can remain unopened unless you are certain they are genuine. The folder can also be scanned by software such as www dot mcafee dot com.
To be help decide whether an email is genuine find out where it came from. The 'From' and 'Return path' fields can easily be forged to look genuine. To check an email click on the option to view the 'long headers' on the email, and then check the bottomost 'Received from:' IP address. An IP address is a group of four numbers in square brackets like this [123.123.123.123]. Go to a 'whois' web site like geektools dot com and input the IP address - if that comes up with a domain that is anything other than genuine do not go there. Dodgy emails quite often come via proxy servers in China, Israel or Russia, or via satellite internet companies.
Unfortunately, keyloggers can also be sent to you by your best friend when an email purporting to be about something that is of genuine interest is unwittingly relayed to everyone in a users address book, but the genuine email could have a keylogger image file. This happened during the Tsunami when a keylogging image file of a boy who had lost his parents was relayed to millions. Receiving such emails is not a problem as long as you do not open the attachments. [From the SalvoWEB Team
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Date Created : 24 Jan 2005 12:45:10
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THORNTON KAY MOVES TO LONDON
THE office in Northumberland was packed up and moved to London last week and is now beginning to work again.
The new contact details are:
Telephone: 020 8400 6222
Fax: 020 8400 6214
Post: Salvo, 10 Barley Mow Passage, London W4 4PH
Mobile: 07971 217842
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Date Created : 29 Jul 2004 17:42:54
Date Modified : 29 Jul 2004 17:42:54
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