Salvaging the last century

Unable to resist the chance to buy iconic items from the first half of the last century, Jesse Carrington offers some unusual salvage items on the Trainspotters website.

The company was originally formed when Carrington spent three days sourcing 2,000 luggage racks from old slam door trains about to be broken-up for salvage.

Now Trainspotters specialises in sourcing quantities of salvaged goods, making it a useful resource for larger scale commercial projects, as well as home-owners looking to add a run of items through the house.

Trainspotters was also offered the chance to salvage thousands of 1920s-1950s enamelled down-lighters from the world’s largest interwar manufacturing plant: The Rover Car Factory at Longbridge in Birmingham. “The site, which had been a car factory since the Austin company was founded there in 1905, already had the bulldozers in, so it was a race to retrieve the acre upon acre of period industrial lighting,” says Carrington.

For more information on salvage items available visit www.trainspotters.uk.com