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Richard Dye
master brummie
Oh my goodness Eric, those are wonderful pieces of art!
The conservatory running alongside the Hall must have been where the exhibition was located (mentioned in post #182 - interior view)
Richard Dye
master brummie
I don’t think I remember the conservatory, was it removed at some point? Maybe it was so long ago that I don’t recall.
A Sparks
master brummie
Nor me but Vivienne said it was for an exhibition so I guess it wasn't there very long.
I looked back and found some previous pictures and information about this "glasshouse" (1858 - 1924?) - on the earlier pages 3 (post #80), 7 (#182, #201) & 8 (#234 #239), as well as some other informative posts on this, on and around those pages. Hope that helps clarify a couple of points.
A Sparks
master brummie
Thanks, it was there quite a few years then!
Pedrocut
Master Barmmie
Your Ladyship the latest article on the Historic England Blog gives us a detailed picture of Gwen Lally…
Meet Gwen Lally, the World’s Pageant Master
We know that there was more to the world’s pageant master than met the eye.
heritagecalling.com
Pedrocut
Master Barmmie
Can’t remember watching the 1938 film that is mentioned…
player.bfi.org.uk
Watch Birmingham Centenary Pageant 1938 - BFI Player
Local news coverage of the wonderful (and very weird) parades and performances staged in Brum to celebrate 100 years since incorporation.
player.bfi.org.uk
Stokkie
master brummie
Pageant of Birmingham in the Historical Pageants database.
https://historicalpageants.ac.uk/pageants/994/
Source: Angela Bartie, Linda Fleming, Mark Freeman, Tom Hulme, Alex Hutton, Paul Readman, ‘Pageant of Birmingham’, The Redress of the Past, http://www.historicalpageants.ac.uk/pageants/994/
https://historicalpageants.ac.uk/pageants/994/
Source: Angela Bartie, Linda Fleming, Mark Freeman, Tom Hulme, Alex Hutton, Paul Readman, ‘Pageant of Birmingham’, The Redress of the Past, http://www.historicalpageants.ac.uk/pageants/994/
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Stokkie
master brummie
The account of the Pageant explains that Gwen Lally used mime to music rather than have a narrator, or provide the actors with words. The first week was subject to rain and the pageant committee wildly underestimated the costs.
'The Pageant made a spectacular loss of £11835, despite a massive attendance of 137545. There were many who felt that while the Birmingham Pageant was certainly a financial failure that crippled the city's finances, it yet succeeded in its aim of raising the city's profile and boosting civic pride. The Birmingham Post noted that whilst the cost to the city had been dear, 'At the same time it is felt that the pageant achieved a very great success and was the means of arousing a civic consciousness attracting a considerable amount of attention to Birmingham.' The Sub-Committee report into its own spectacular failings ended a scathing report with a quotation from the Birmingham Post the previous week: 'Whatever the deficit, and the reasons for it, perhaps it will be best to regard the Pageant of Birmingham as an adventure that drew the attention of Great Britain to "The Hub of Industrial England" and gave its humblest citizen a civic pride that should endure long after the dead past has reburied its dead.'
Source: https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/7f5ea52e-1e7a-36f8-a15f-6ed710045038
'The Pageant made a spectacular loss of £11835, despite a massive attendance of 137545. There were many who felt that while the Birmingham Pageant was certainly a financial failure that crippled the city's finances, it yet succeeded in its aim of raising the city's profile and boosting civic pride. The Birmingham Post noted that whilst the cost to the city had been dear, 'At the same time it is felt that the pageant achieved a very great success and was the means of arousing a civic consciousness attracting a considerable amount of attention to Birmingham.' The Sub-Committee report into its own spectacular failings ended a scathing report with a quotation from the Birmingham Post the previous week: 'Whatever the deficit, and the reasons for it, perhaps it will be best to regard the Pageant of Birmingham as an adventure that drew the attention of Great Britain to "The Hub of Industrial England" and gave its humblest citizen a civic pride that should endure long after the dead past has reburied its dead.'
Source: https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/7f5ea52e-1e7a-36f8-a15f-6ed710045038
Something that looks totally out of place in Aston Hall? This new work probably does merit a place somewhere, but I don't really think this is it.
? new addition s preferred it as it was when i used to spend my school hols playing there dawn to dusk
at least it's looked after no decay
Stokkie
master brummie
I've not seen Aston Hall for a while. The new addition is Luke Perry's 'Forward Together,' I wonder if it really will draw people together or be divisive? Is it intended to be permanent, I wonder?
https://www.patrickcomerford.com/2024/08/luke-perrys-sculpture-forward-together.html?m=1
https://www.patrickcomerford.com/2024/08/luke-perrys-sculpture-forward-together.html?m=1
Richard Dye
master brummie
I was thinking the same thing! I wonder how much that thing cost? And if it’s not permanent will cast almost as much to take it away and remediate the site.
It was a temporary sculpture in Victoria Square. It was outside the Town Hall from July 2021, but was relocated to Colmore Square by December (to make way for the Christmas Market). It then remained in Colmore Square throughout 2022 and was then moved to Aston Hall & Park, and it is now in Lady Holte's Garden. They can put it somewhere else now then?
Pedrocut
Master Barmmie
“They are seen working together to lift the city, symbolised by its giant coat of arms, to its full potential. Inspired by the city’s motto ‘Forward’, it brings together a collection of local people as steel silhouettes who are everyday yet extraordinary people.’
Perhaps the City’s motto should be changed from Forward to Bankrupt !
Perhaps the City’s motto should be changed from Forward to Bankrupt !
Richard Dye
master brummie
Except those turnings would be shiny
Richard Dye
master brummie
Given the cities financial woes they should be very measured with expenditures toward necessary services like libraries etc.
Pedrocut
Master Barmmie
Took this picture of Lady Holte’s Garden 15 years ago, much nicer !
Thats more like itTook this picture of Lady Holte’s Garden 15 years ago, much nicer !
Stokkie
master brummie
BCC said in 2021 that 'Forward Together' was independently commissioned as part of a new television series. But no details of the cost - I do hope that the TV company paid for the work. But Birmingham was in a financially different place in 2021. https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/news/...rminghams_diversity_by_going_forward_together
I think it is currently too close to Aston Hall and it is bound to rust. Let's hope it can find a resting place further away.
I think it is currently too close to Aston Hall and it is bound to rust. Let's hope it can find a resting place further away.