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« Reply #8086 on: 17:28:42, 23-10-2008 » |
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Stanley! The Civic, Rotherham.... Scene of my first Panto, 1974.  |
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« Reply #8087 on: 18:04:28, 23-10-2008 » |
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I will break into these cheerful reminiscences with a grumpy rant. My heating is off again. And my hot water. I think it's the pilot light again. The simple truth is that I need a new boiler, but I always have this suspicion at the back of my mind that they don't mend it properly so that I'll have to buy a new one. I'm still hoping to delay it until next summer. I have one gas fire that works, and an ancient immersion heater, so it could be worse. Also an electric blanket that I'm very fond of My paths and paving are now very clean (see earlier grumble, may have been on Waffle)), too clean really. I shall have to wait for them to weather nicely again, but they were getting a bit slippery and mossy. Edited again to correct spelling  |
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« Reply #8088 on: 18:18:36, 23-10-2008 » |
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IMy paths and paving are now very clean (see earlier grumble, may have been on Waffle)), too clean really. I shall have to wait for them to weather nicely again, but they were getting a bit slippery and mossy.
My paths, patios and drive are covered in dead leaves and sand. The gardeners are supposed to come on Fridays, due tomorrow but have been completely rained off now for quite a while. Good thing you have an immersion heater Mary!  |
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We pass this way but once. This is not a rehearsal!
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« Reply #8089 on: 09:17:12, 24-10-2008 » |
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I'm afraid mrsBBM doesn't like Wales at all Milly, Mary and Martle. She had a bad experience of the that wet weather you have. It rained the whole time she was there. They came back early because of it!! O dear!
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« Reply #8090 on: 10:57:57, 24-10-2008 » |
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What's the Eastgate Hotel called now then?  It's called The Lincoln Hotel. Imaginative eh?  I might get chance to post some photos tonight since I'm on the broadband here - woo hoo! |
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"Two wrongs don't make a right. But three rights do make a left." - Rohan Candappa
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« Reply #8091 on: 11:16:45, 24-10-2008 » |
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Thanks, Rubes. Yes, 'Manderley' as I called it was at the site you identified. A long wall in the approach and the full splendour of the house when you opened the wall door. The owner, a petite Mrs Beaton used to throw regular bridge party evenings which could comfortably accommodate 50 people without being overcrowded. She was also libertarian in an autocratic age! The autocrat was the theatre manager, Kay...(she may still be around) - an unusual role for a woman at the time - whom we called Lady Clasketgate; an early taste of Mrs Thatcher. Quite formidable but capable of maternal warmth at troubled times. She was responsible for two companies, A & B, as we'd play at Lincoln, followed by a week at a very posh private theatre on an estate at Loughborough. That's quite a coincidence - I was born in Loughborough and lived there until I was 19! Yes, yes. I'd forgotten the Victorian pub you mentioned. You've made me think. How the hell did we manage to pay for digs, including London accommodation, smoke (a habit I didn't kick until the early 70s), lunch at good restaurants and go to the pub - all for around £12 a week? I think it's called priorities. Plus things are quite cheap in Lincoln really. And yes, Ron, I can visualise you traipsing up and down Steep Hill as a publicity stunt; the true espirit de corps; no gratuities either, I bet. Young and foolish but contented during regular 6 day/16 hours a day routine - the pub after the performance and back to the digs for more study. I'd also forgotten about medical facilities at Lincoln. Somehow, I had a minor injury rehearsing Rattigan's Ross and, perhaps it was the actors as vagrants stigma, but I was picked-up by an ambulance from nearby RAF Nocton Hall hospital where I was well treated and back in time for the evening performance. Ah, well, "We'll always have Clasketgate." Ha ha, the ever-present RAF Lincolnshire... I'm practically a leper at work because I'm not married to the RAF. Lovely to hear about all this Stanley. |
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On my father's side of the family, his father gave a certain aircraft pioneer, a certain Handley Page, in 1901, £100 to start his aircraft venture. ofcourse, what followed is quite well known!
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On my father's side of the family, his father gave a certain aircraft pioneer, a certain Handley Page, in 1901, £100 to start his arcraft venture. ofcourse, what followed is quite well known!
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On my father's side of the family, his father gave a certain aircraft pioneer, a certain Handley Page, in 1901, £100 to start his arcraft venture. ofcourse, what followed is quite well known!
Is that a Grumpy Old Rant?! Sorry t_i_n, this is my fault, I seem to have hijacked the thread for other purposes. When I get some pictures to post I'll start a "Reminiscing about Lincolnshire" thread with a spin-off RAF one for BBM.  |
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« Reply #8095 on: 14:51:21, 24-10-2008 » |
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Thank you Rubes. We better get back on topic, otherwise the mods might have us for Halloween!!
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Sorry t_i_n, this is my fault, I seem to have hijacked the thread for other purposes. When I get some pictures to post I'll start a "Reminiscing about Lincolnshire" thread with a spin-off RAF one for BBM. Ah, I see now. Being an ignorant kind of person I didn't realise BBM's comments had anything to do with the RAF.  |
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« Reply #8098 on: 15:19:00, 24-10-2008 » |
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I'd go for that one then mort!
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« Reply #8099 on: 16:25:04, 24-10-2008 » |
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The Lincoln reminiscences have even strayed into a p.m. this afternoon.
Rubes, do you recall the name of the estate at Loughborough where the stately house also included a full equipped theatre? Probably several hundred seats and we played to packed houses for Thurber's 'The Male Animal', Rattigan's 'Ross' and Graham Greene's 'The Complaisant Lover'. We used to harass the coach driver to get a move-on after we left Lincoln so that we could arrive in time for a walk round the lake on the grounds.
One of the co-directors at Lincoln Theatre was Alan Vaughan Williams, grandson of the composer who'd died a few years earlier in 1958. It wasn't until the later TV biographies of RVW that I recognised so much of Alan in his grandfather. A bit gruff, very direct but always underwritten with humour. We played "Ross", after a run at Lincoln, and to save time, Alan came down the aisle on the return coach giving notes to all and sundry. An initial warning that Loughborough was fine for visual splendour but the acoustic lacked the natural resonance of Lincoln. In every case, I could hear "Lift the pitch and project more clearly." I was playing the Arab chieftain, Auda Abu Tayi. A pause when he reached my seat, "Stanley...take it all down by at least 50%" and he moved on. A huge roar from the assembly. There! That's his grumpy old rant, not mine.
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