ABOUT US

Working for architectural salvage pioneers Lassco they spent their days scouring the underbelly of London for interesting reclamation, filling a crumbling
warehouse off the back of Old Street with everything from piles of humble Victorian door handles to reconstructed Georgian panelled rooms.

Alongside the booming architectural reclamation side of the business they started to take an interest in the runs of industrial lighting they would
occasionally come across. Back then it could be bought cheap. But then again nobody really wanted it. So it remained something of a labour of love
until the pair decided to go it alone in 2005, setting up Retroport to break away from the generalized salvage mould and specialise in industrial salvage
and lighting.

As the nascent interest in industrial lighting grew into full-scale demand we expanded our attentions to the abandoned factories studding the once
communist belt of Eastern Europe.

After a number of fruitless trips, where our enquiries were met with miscomprehension if not outright suspicion, we finally located some like-minded
folk in the demolition trade. And so the westward flow of Eastern Bloc factory lighting began, soon filling a large warehouse in Stroud.