Can You Help? NOTICES SUMMER 2008
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NOTICEBOARD
Friends Shop
The Friends shop sells a range
of gifts and souvenirs as well as being a point of contact between the general
public and the Winter Gardens restoration project. If you can spare a few hours
to join the team of volunteers who staff the shop, especially on weekdays
(Tuesday to Friday) or Saturdays, please contact Evelyn (see Contacts below).
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Sponsor a Plank
You can still contribute to
the theatre’s floor fund by sponsoring a plank. Planks cost £10 carrying up to
2 names or £20 for a whole family. Names are kept in a register of sponsors and
you receive a certificate as acknowledgement. Planks can be sponsored at the
Friends shop.
Theatre Tours
Public tours of the theatre
are run on Sunday afternoons. The tour includes the front of house areas, the
view across Morecambe Bay from the open air balcony, a climb to the top of the
gods, a chance to practise your royal wave from one of the boxes and the
opportunity to get a performer’s eye view from the stage. Places on the tours
cost £3 per head (£6 for families) and are bookable at the Friends shop. Tours
for groups at other times are also available by prior arrangement.
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Web Site
The Friends of the Winter
Gardens web site (www.thewintergardensmorecambe.co.uk)
has, among other features, profiles of the Friends patrons – Paul Nicholas,
Gary Morecambe, Wayne Hemingway, Ken Dodd, Dame Thora Hird and Professor
Vanessa Toulmin; outlines of the Friends’ campaign to save the theatre and the
work of the Morecambe Winter Gardens Trust; profiles of the trustees; news of
events; links to other organisations including the Frank Matcham Society, the
Theatres Trust, Urban Splash, the Midland Hotel and the Friends of the Midland
Hotel; extracts from recent newsletters; a virtual tour of the theatre and an
archive section featuring memories, photographs, etc.
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Contacts
Chair – Evelyn Archer (17a
South Grove, Morecambe, Lancs, LA4 5RL; phone 01524 422180 or email evmik1@btopenworld.com)
Secretary – Julie Stone (20
Ashbourne Grove, Westgate, Morecambe, Lancs, LA3 3NH or phone 01524 424924)
Treasurer – Joyce Wilding (379
Marine Road East, Morecambe, Lancs, LA4 5AH or phone 01524 422122)
Membership Secretary – Mike
Archer (17a South Grove, Morecambe, Lancs, LA4 5RL or phone 01524 422180)
Other committee members
include: Mick Coffey (07989 588207), Stephen Jones (07980 870235), Malcolm
O’Neil (01524 416474) and Howard Rogerson (01524 412552).
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Newsletter
The article in the last issue
about Julie Andrews at the Winter Gardens proved very timely because it was
followed a couple of weeks later by the publication of Julie’s autobiography Home: a Memoir of my Early Years covering
the years up to 1963 and her flight to Hollywood to film Mary Poppins. The book is priced £18.99 and published by
Weidenfeld.
The Friends of the Winter
Gardens Newsletter is compiled by Peter Wade. Articles, memories and other
contributions from members are welcome. Please send them to Peter at 24 Manor
Grove, Morecambe, Lancs, LA3 1JA or email to p.wade@lancaster.ac.uk (next issue
due out before Christmas).
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