The LAST RESORT
Home of REFERENCE WORKS Ltd. Ceramic Books Specialists
9 Commercial Road. Swanage,
Dorset , England BH19 1DF
We are open most days 10am
- 4pm Monday Friday. Saturday 10.30 am- 1.30pm
or by appointment at any other time.
Please telephone before
travelling to ensure we will be available.
If you call and we
are not open just telephone the number on the door and we can
open witin 2 minutes unless away on business.
The shop contains a large display
of our book and catalogue stock
with a small range of around 100 items of ceramics for sale from
the 18th,19th and 20th centuries.
Also odd items of other small antiques.
We emphasise
this ceramic
stock is small and is to complement our
book and catalogue stock & provide extra interest to visitors
to Swanage.
The ceramics date from 1750 to 1970 and are priced between £3
and £150.
Over 4,500 sale catalogues
on ceramics of all subjects from the 1950's to 2004
plus a section of applied arts, furniture & glass and antique
magazines from the 1940's to 2002.
Catalogue room open to visitors only by appointment.
We can recommend
accommodation and provide information on getting to Swanage if
required.
Our pier has been refurbished in recent years and last year "2006"
the beach was recharged with sand and new timber groynes inserted,
and has been completed.
The Swanage Steam Railway is another attraction along with Swanage
being part of the Jurassic Coastline.
Several people have asked
about the name "The Last Resort" ..... Swanage is a
resort which is fairly inaccessible ......
However,some of you may be familiar with one of our favourite
songs which bears the same name.
" They called it paradise, the place to be,
"They watched the hazy sun, sinking in the sea"
-- " Who will provide the grand design, what is yours and
what is mine"
"There is no more new frontier, we have got to make it here"
( The Last Resort - 1976 - The Eagles )
