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horsencart said:
This event is free to see what was under a now long lost Picture house, The Picture House New St here are a few photo https://www.flickr.com/photos/dofartshavelumps/
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When were these pictures taken? The lighting is a lot better on them than it was on Saturday. It would have been nice to see what the rest of the place looks like but there is a lot of space roped off as unsafe. There's supposed to be a film for the cinema event but it wasn't available at the time. They are also collecting "memories" on cards they put up on the boards. These will be passed on to someone at next year's flatpack festival for some project.
There will be a larger exhibition at the old Municipal bank starting from the 20th. I don't know if any of this material will be moved into that one after.
The cinema basement hadn't been out of use for very long. It was a Snooker club up to a year or two back. They even had mail for the club lying on the floor inside the door.
 
I took the photos on Saturday, I have to admit that I do have a half decent camera, and I have played with the photos, because they were to dark I have boosted the light, to make it better than it was, the things that you can do with the right software these days, mea culpa.


wam said:
When were these pictures taken? The lighting is a lot better on them than it was on Saturday. It would have been nice to see what the rest of the place looks like but there is a lot of space roped off as unsafe. There's supposed to be a film for the cinema event but it wasn't available at the time. They are also collecting "memories" on cards they put up on the boards. These will be passed on to someone at next year's flatpack festival for some project.
There will be a larger exhibition at the old Municipal bank starting from the 20th. I don't know if any of this material will be moved into that one after.
The cinema basement hadn't been out of use for very long. It was a Snooker club up to a year or two back. They even had mail for the club lying on the floor inside the door.
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