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Education, salvation and damnation… the stirring description of one of Aberdeen’s most iconic thoroughfares, Rosemount Viaduct.
Developed in 1886, the structure allowed the development of three iconic buildings, the Central Library, St Mark’s Church and His Majesty’s Theatre – hence the education, etc.
The library was built in 1892 and opened by its patron, the famed philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. St Mark’s followed in 1898, with its dome modelled on St Paul’s in London. His Majesty’s is the baby of the group, arriving in 1906. Join us as we take a step back in time to look at this remarkable street.
A vanished Newcastle theatre - but what stands in its place 110 years later?
The Empire Theatre in Newcastle city centre was a favourite destination for our fun-seeking Geordie ancestors between 1890 and 1963
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Patching up a gaping hole in the vaulted ceiling of the Morecambe Winter Gardens was one of the first restoration tasks Damian Rose/Morecambe Winter Gardens Preservation Trust
When the bitter wind blows from the sea, the gaps in the ornate doors of the Morecambe Winter Gardens make an eerie singing noise, like a ghost of the music that once filled the spectacular Victorian auditorium in northwest England.
“That’s what we must do here,” says Vanessa Toulmin, the chair of the Morecambe Winter Gardens Preservation Trust, “fill this whole place with music again, that’s what it was built for.”