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    Arrow Morecambe Winter Gardens, Just a peek - March 2012

    Many thanks to BlueInk for organizing this meet
    There will be future organised trips so give him a shout and support this worthy cause

    Here is a few shots from the day

    External


    Main Theater


    Close up of some of the beautiful decor


    Roof


    Mosaic


    Ceiling


    I know there are 6 pics...but im not counting the external

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    Default Re: Morecambe Winter Gardens, Just a peek - March 2012

    I went on a tour yesterday afternoon and failed miserably to take any photos because I was too busy looking and asking questions.

    Anyway, I snapped shots at the evening burlesque show in low light stability mode, here are a few to set the scene.

    Interval, showing the stage set, Dr. Diablo onstage. Great to see the place with an audience in.


    The vast arched ceiling taken from front stalls looking back and up. The two covers in the centre of the bays in line with the 1930s pendant fittings are for rigging ropes for trapeze artists in times gone by.


    Looking up at the stage left boxes. The lower one on the left had been annexed for use as a control room. Many of the building floors have been replaced, including the box floors. The upper box ceilings on this side are still open to the room.


    The dress circle side slips, with cantilevered ironwork back from the columns. There isn't really any proper house lighting at present, the vintage fittings have been removed and stored. Most of the lighting is builder's construction site style.


    There used to be a lighting box at the back of the upper circle which has now been removed. It looks like it was installed unsympathetically, judging by the hole left behind. Note the ladder, which is the only access into the roof void. You can just make out the top of the facade arched window which allows light to flood in (which is probably one of the reasons for that large horizontal pelmet framing the 2nd bay.


    The building is constructed on Victorian railway station principles. These vast girders holding up the roof arches have been exposed at stalls level on either side of the auditorium, although they are boxed in at upper levels.


    This cherub has lost its head on one of the stage boxes. It has fared better than the box next to it, where the plasterwork has entirely gone. (Obscured by a blue velvet drape on the first photo)

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