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Junior8

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    Freelance Writer/Researcher covering, amongst other things, the Event & Outdoor Show sectors.
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    Roger Mills

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    Lighting mainly - though I haven't touched any since since 1997! Until then teaching Theatre Arts. Main interest is now in history and archeology of anything 'technical' to do with the stage.
    Found this site looking for Major - which shouldn't be held against me. Have just got round to beginning a revision and updating of a History of Stage Lighting compiled as a dissertation in 1976 and untouched since - purely for my own interest.

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  1. Noting the word Society I assume this is not part of any course but some kind of student unincoporated association. If this is the case I would strongly advise them not to publish anything on Social Media that they have licensed and more especially anything they have performed that should have been! I would also ask - what is the point? They'll be gone in a year or two, the recordings will be of little interest to any following cohorts and I suspect will never be looked at again. (Disclaimer: This view may be connected with the fact that I am profoundly grateful that none of my student performances were recorded, especially the Street Theatre in Liverpool c 1974! Think on - as they used to say in those parts.)
  2. Good to see the Patt 45 has not been forgotten!!
  3. I suppose the best way would be to glue everything that does not have to be moved to the table!
  4. Now added - anybody any use for 2 off Kodak Carousel magazines and a couple of decent flat screen monitors for say backstage work
  5. Go to any reputable soft furnishings company and enquire - Miss J8 works in one and they have stuff treated all the time. I'll bet they can make just what you want - or know somebody who can.
  6. I am clearing a deceased estate and have the following for anyone who can use them and collect them from South Hants. Around 40 bc 100W lamps boxed in fours, two academic gowns for those doing Browning, 40 Years on etc, around 10 off 13 amp extensions 4,6 outlets and I off 8 way I think surge protected, two or three desk lamps and a box of stationary sundries for the prop cupboard. No hurry but if interested pm me.
  7. Back in 2018 I nearly didn’t make it to a funeral on the Thursday before Bank Holiday. Why? My train from Guildford to Reading arrived (from Gatwick way) full, not of passengers but of tents, rucksacks, folding chairs and other detritus being lugged by a few folk (and I mean a few folk) on their way to Reading Festival. I forced my way on, apologies to the three or four I ruthlessly pushed aside, and travelled wedged against the door. But at least I got on which is more than can be said for a good many poor souls. Put simply many non mainline GWR services especially those from Portsmouth to Cardiff can hardly handle the normal demand. Unless GWR and X Country really strengthen services into BTM for those dates and festival goers take to the trains it will be, I suspect, carnage.
  8. As usual no one seems to be asking the relevant questions about a 450 seater operating with no planning consent https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-67612785
  9. All my alarm bells are ringing - don't use this item on any account.
  10. Do you actually need a Cash Register? Would a cash drawer do instead? These were often just a simple wooden cased drawer with a bell, triggered by a peg on the back of the drawer which could be easily mocked up see https://I.ebayimg.com/images/g/9OcAAOSwXfFhicAw/s-l1600.jpg ,
  11. I feel your pain! It was fifty five years ago for me and I agree about the stuff we'd grab and do up and it wasn't much different around thirty years ago as those who remember the bidding wars for ordinary Strand stuff at the (was it 1995?) Stagecraft Salisbury auction of excess hire stock. But even then the price of new equipment was in real terms much higher than imported Chinese now. With the cascading of second hand gear over the past few years I'm not surprised most societies have all they need and if it's simply taking up storage space for one I don't expect the others would be any different.
  12. I think you have to accept that it is worthless and even the traders who polish up Patt 123s for the home interiors market aren't going to give you much for anything. But look at it the other way - you've probably had far more use out of this stuff than you had any right to expect and it certainly doesn't owe you any money. Strip the guts out and get the metal weighed in - it might be enough to buy a few drinks for the cast.
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