Obituary: Drummond Shaw (1950-2023)

Drummond Shaw, a former commodity broker in the City, became interested in salvage in the 1980s while restoring Flexford House, his 1840s family home on Surrey’s Hog’s Back, when he needed to buy the right type of kit.

Salvage fitted the bill, especially big – yes, the bigger the better, such as old cast-iron baths.…

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