David Salisbury Company Blog

With the Rolling Stones recent fiftieth anniversary and all the publicity, I thought it worth sharing these pictures of Keith Richard’s Conservatory at his property in Connecticut USA....

Our American partner “Parish Conservatories” to whom we have supplied dozens of conservatories over the past 7 years has been in the eye of the storm. They operate their business from a small industrial unit in Connecticut and the roof has been blown clean off.

In the end it was nothing to worry about. The “Explosive Device” was found to be “inactive” but not before the bomb squad has been called out. By 7:00pm the all clear was given, but by this time the night shift has been dispersed. It will now take us a few days to catch up the lost production time and the coming week’s deliveries will have to be reorganised.

This afternoon we were surprised by 6 police cars arriving in the road outside and an instruction to clear a radius of 50 yards from a skip located on neighbouring premises. Apparently an “explosive device” had been discovered. This affected part of our car park but no great disruption otherwise. Five minutes later the exclusion radius became 100 yards and the circle cut through part of our factory.

Time to glaze the Arington Court conservatory. This is a delicate opperation on a roof of this size, but with good weather it will be completed rapidly.