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BB
08-03-2012, 04:08 AM
Many thanks to BlueInk for organizing this meet :)
There will be future organised trips so give him a shout and support this worthy cause :thumb

Here is a few shots from the day :)

External
http://i324.photobucket.com/albums/k356/Broughtonboy2008/_DSC0115.jpg

Main Theater
http://i324.photobucket.com/albums/k356/Broughtonboy2008/_DSC0013-2.jpg

Close up of some of the beautiful decor
http://i324.photobucket.com/albums/k356/Broughtonboy2008/_DSC0014-3.jpg

Roof
http://i324.photobucket.com/albums/k356/Broughtonboy2008/_DSC0044.jpg

Mosaic
http://i324.photobucket.com/albums/k356/Broughtonboy2008/_DSC0104-1.jpg

Ceiling
http://i324.photobucket.com/albums/k356/Broughtonboy2008/_DSC0064-2.jpg

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

Thanks

Shades
06-05-2012, 06:28 PM
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.
http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv188/Shades_photos/DSC00336.jpg

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.
http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv188/Shades_photos/DSC00297.jpg

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.
http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv188/Shades_photos/DSC00298.jpg

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.
http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv188/Shades_photos/DSC00296.jpg

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.
http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv188/Shades_photos/DSC00278.jpg

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.
http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv188/Shades_photos/DSC00339.jpg

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)
http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv188/Shades_photos/DSC00283.jpg