There are still some raspberries to be had.
And the pears just keep on giving.
But the most unusual are once again the lilac fruit from the chocolate vine over the old wood shed.
more this year than ever.
Friday, October 16
Wednesday, October 14
The Alhambra Theatre ...Morecambe
Just around the corner from our Bay house in Morecambe is this great lump of a building...
The Alhambra theatre.
When we first arrived back in Morecambe 2002, I found it dark and foreboding... neglected and sad looking.
I was more interested in The Winter Gardens closer to The Midland Hotel.
Both were soon being renovated and it was obvious that local people cared about those buildings.
The theatre's fortunes faded at exactly the same time that Morecambe's West End became a particular area of major social deprivation as a result of the whole resort's economy collapsing in the 1980s and 1990s.
It opened in 1901 as the Alhambra Palace, it took its name, though not its style, from the famous Moorish original in Granada, Spain. The building was in continuous use, with a range of entertainment and social uses, until 1970 when a fire gutted the interior. Following extensive refurbishment the theatre reopened in 1973 as The Inn on the Bay before renaming itself The Carleton Club, becoming a major events venue and one of the great Northern soul dance clubs.
After closing in 2016, it reopened in the same year as a multi-purpose venue with capacity up to 1,100.
The theatre was the location where Laurence Olivier shot his iconic 1960 film version of John Osborne’s The Entertainer.
In 2016...Ian Bond, a local property developer, aquired the premises and opened some of it again.
The lockdown has brought more changes...the old front was covered up and he has removed some of it to reveal the wonderful tesserae of the Alhambra lettering.
Such a great font!
...a corner of the entrance,,,
...carved pillars of yorkshire stone also revealed on either side of the front doors...
When so many places of historic interest get levelled it's so good to see this place with some hope for it's future...every Sunday the bar is once again open for drinks on the second floor...
... with views out to The Bay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfwR7-KNF4U
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