Archive for the ‘Architecture’ Category
The day Elsie came to Morley
There was a celebrated visit to Morley by H.M. Queen Elizabeth 2nd & Prince Philip in 1954, for which purpose the place was much spruced up and a W.C. was specially installed in the Town Hall should Betty require to powder her nose during the visit. (Apparently she didn’t and it was subsequently dismantled).
However, another [...]
Transformation
Transformation is the name of the project to restore the Leeds Grand Theatre and to provide a permanent home for Opera North. Now I’m not too bothered about Opera but I love theatres. I went round the building in January 2007 and took this shot of the gloomy rehearsal room formerly known as the Assembly [...]
In: Architecture, Showbiz, Techy
Scagliola and Chips
With an extensive back-catalogue of theatre architecture blog posts under my belt, every now and then I get an email enquiry from someone I don’t know about stuff I’m very interested in. A few weeks ago, I had an enquiry from Hayles and Howe who specialise in decorative plasterwork. Their interest was because a substantial [...]
In: Architecture, Showbiz
A tale of two toilets
Two extremes yesterday. In Morley, it was the open day for the Fire Station and Police Station. Whilst they don’t use their custody suite any more (as evidenced by the other cells being full of filing boxes!) Cell number four had been emptied in order for the law abiding to see how the other half [...]
In: Architecture, Civil liberties, Showbiz
Living in a box
My earliest memories of caravan holidays were at Crimdon Dene in the early 70s. They were week long holidays with our local Boy’s club (of The Idiots fame) and it was a carful of boys with the Club leader (Doug, who apparently was a kiddy fiddler). The caravans were a lot more basic back then, [...]
