Period Living

Demolition discovery

A family business originally set up by two brothers, Symonds Salvage has stood on the same site in Bethersden, near Ashford in Kent, for almost 40 years. The Symonds brothers, Martin and Ray, worked in the building trade and found it hard to source the materials they needed for period restorations, so they started doing their own demolitions. It didn’t

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