Day 4 – Big Bagnor Household

9 January 2015

Work on the site is going a pace. In the restaurant all the electric heaters have gone (don’t fear, Clare (General Manager) is recycling them into other buildings) and all the air handlers are now plumbed into position – including one nattily positioned in the minstrels gallery above the fire.

We now also have one in the Lily Pond area to supplement the under floor heating – which will be brilliant chilling the area in the summer.

Work is also well underway with the solar thermal alterations being made to our water boilers ready for the panels to arrive next week.

All the pipework is rapidly homing its way to the theatre, not only from the boreholes but the restaurant and Lily Pond. The pipes running above the awning are just about to enter the theatre through the “Tab Store” (ok, it’s a cupboard above the front door). Then they will enter the new “Plenum” (ok, the old wheel store) before going up through the “Royal Circle” (ok, upstairs). They then go through the “Dimmer Room” (yes, it’s the cupboard we keep the lights in) into the “Costume store” (you’ve got it) and into the area above the dressing rooms – where I can now stand without stooping!

Meanwhile, all the pipework from the boreholes is making its way across the lawns and around the back of the theatre into the new “Plant Room” (ok, it looks like a shed). These are then making their way into the theatre near the stage and up through the building, finally going through the Orange dressing room. It seems very fitting that this area at the top of the theatre is the heart of the whole operation.

We don’t have numbers or pretentions names on our dressing rooms – each is a different colour. “Why?” you may ask, “simple”, we will answer. Brewers, who we get our paint from, every so often are kind enough to give us any paint that has been incorrectly ordered or wrongly mixed etc. This is great as we often just need odd amounts for bits of set. One year this arrived just as we were redecorating – there was not enough of any one colour to paint all the rooms and the rest, as they say, is history.

Lawrence T Doyle
Production Manager