🥂 Our 125th Birthday 🎂
Our Theatre
The Victoria Pavillion, as it was then known, opened it’s doors to the public on 19 July 1897 designed to be both a grand variety theatre and a concert hall. Built at a cost of nearly £100,000, it was designed by Mangnall & Littlewood from Manchester with interiors by Dean and Co, including tiling covering the walls and ceiling of the lavish foyer by Burmantoft of Leeds. Marble steps led the public upstairs to the lavish Grand Circle with the third tier known locally as the Gods, with bench seating.
Our Birthday Weekend
We raised £3,000 over our special Birthday Weekend.
Thank you to everyone who supported us. We really appreciate that.
This helps towards our monthly running costs of £4,500 which we are on target to cover
Our Celebrations
We held a number of events to celebrate our
125th Birthday
On Saturday 16th July we held a Free Children’s Party
Birthday Theatre Tours took place on Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th July
On Sunday 17th July we held our special Birthday Raffle
On Sunday 24th July Yorkshire Silent Film Festival there was a special showing of Hitchcock’s thriller The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog – with live music
On Saturday 6th August the George Formby Society held a one day convention
The generous sponsors of our Children's Party Goody Bags
Thank You
The Old Pier Bookshop, Morecambe
Tim Narey (Eden Project)
Ruth Wilkinson, The Consult Centre, Morecambe
Lorraine Thompson
Audrey Oldham
Stephanie Clements-Marsden
Fiona Alexander
Cihan Oktem
Fiona Hudson
Hilary Temple
Diana Walkden
Ana Budjelan
Pamela Billingham
Patricia Haskey
Brenda Holliday
Briggs Financial Services Limited
Garry Owen
125th Birthday Raffle
Thanks to our Volunteers Sherry, Dawn and Lorraine for the fabulous array of prizes they obtained from our wonderful friends in the business community.
We would like to thank all the local business and individuals who kindly donated all of the prizes for our Birthday Raffle
Hampers were made up from other individual smaller donations
