I am working on sketches for a window commission at my local theatre the Kings Theatre in Southsea.
Zippo's Circus is coming to town and I have the exciting pleasure of promoting Britain's best circus .
I have known this elegant Edwardian playhouse since i was a child and travelled some fifty miles to see a pantomime.
I now live just around the corner. It is the result of the vision and business acumen of John Waters Boughton
and the architectural prowess of Frank Matcham, one of the greatest of theatre architects.
Much wonderful restoration work has been completed in recent years to restore the auditorium and some other public areas to their full beauty. The lady statue, originally mounted on the top of the Tower, was lost for many years and only found again by chance in 1998 in a Hampshire scrapyard. Renamed “Aurora” in honour of the Centenary, she is now on display in the main foyer, and a glass fibre replica was reinstated on the top of the tower in 2009 as the crowning glory of a £200,000 restoration of the whole tower.
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