Managing partner Andrew McCoull said the reasons to relocate to the west of Newcastle were two-fold. “On the one hand our lease on the Crawcrook premises has now expired and is not renegotiable. On the other, the increasing scale and popularity of the sales we’ve held over the past 20 years now urgently require the facilities which will be provided at Westerhope.”
The new location might lack the charm of the dusty warehouses on the edge of the Tyne Valley but offers some 12,000 square feet of space with a full suite of offices, two salerooms, a drive-in reception area for deliveries and collections and parking space. It is also close to the A1 offering convenient access to the firm’s Alnwick saleroom recently acquired from the retiring auctioneer Ian Robertson.
A&G move secondary rooms
THE Newcastle upon Tyne auctioneers Anderson & Garland are to relocate their second-string saleroom to a new purpose-built building at Westerhope. The firm took over Pattisons Rooms at Crawcrook near Gateshead in 1983 where for 20 years they have held their fortnightly sales of Victorian and later furniture and effects supporting the quarterly sales held at Marlborough House in the city centre.
