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Berwin Leighton Paisner, solicitors
Sir Michael Bishop
(Donington Hall, Castle Donington)
bmi airways
Alan Boyd
(Gainslaw House, Berwick-
BBC2
(House Detectives series)
British Gas
British Rail
(Liverpool Street Station)
Cadogan Estate
Nigel Colne
(Old Richmond Palace Gate House)
Roger Hancock
(Marine Parade, Brighton)
Lord Harris of Peckham
(Glassenbury, Kent)
Hogarth Architects
John Lyon Estate
Ron Mackintosh
(Redens, Lodsworth)
MWB Group, property developers
National Trust
(2 Willow Road, Hampstead)
The Office Group
(Paddington Station)
Paskin Kyriakides Sands, architects
Pemberton Greenish, solicitors
Julian Schild
(Blomfield Road)
Sloane Stanley Estate
Paul Smith
(The Black Horse, Amberley)
Sunday Express
(25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester)
Sunday Times
Taylor Clark Properties
James Thompson
(Upper Brook Street)
Walled Garden at Cowdray
Weald & Downland Museum
(‘How to be a House Detective’ day schools)
Bill Wyman
(Gedding Hall)
Michael Zuckerman,
(Worshipful Master, The Coopers’ Company, 2012-
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