The link to the East Midlands Today Programme is below:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b017gd1k/?t=14m58s
Kylie’s piece on The Grand Pavilion is about half way through.
Gregor
N.Gregor Macgregor
Chairman, The Grand Pavilion Ltd
See our Progress: www.savethepavilion.co.uk &
Support out vision: www.thegrandpavilion.co.uk
The television slot, recorded last Friday, was broadcast this evening and looked really good.
Kylie included clips from Charles Beresford, Ken Smith and Sue Bliss as well as Geoff Stevens from Derbyshire Dales.
She really got across what a great building it is and how we need to save it.
Thanks to all of you who came to help in making the piece and I hope we can have it available online for everyone to see again.
Gregor
N.Gregor Macgregor
Chairman, The Grand Pavilion Ltd
See our Progress: www.savethepavilion.co.uk &
Support out vision: www.thegrandpavilion.co.uk
Andie Brazewell did his talk on the Amazon last night and put on a great show! We had a good audience and signed up eight new members on the night.
The talk incorporated slides; lights; special effects; and sound, which made it a real night of entertainment; not just a talk!
We had a bit of a crisis, before it all started, because Charles Beresford’s computer could not create the sounds; which would have been a disaster! Fortunately I had my computer, we loaded the slideshow, and it all worked OK.
Today we have shown 14 members round the Pavilion – doesn’t it get dark early!
Friends group membership now stands at 828.
Gregor
N.Gregor Macgregor
Chairman, The Grand Pavilion Ltd
See our Progress: www.savethepavilion.co.uk &
Support out vision: www.thegrandpavilion.co.uk
It was great to see Kylie in Matlock Bath. She was filming a piece for Tuesday evening at 6.30pm. This is part of a series that she is doing on Lost Heritage.
She was enormously impressed by the building and what we are doing to try to preserve it. There was a big “wow” as she rounded the corner and first saw the Ballroom.
A number of key players in our campaign gave interviews including Charles Beresford, Andie Brazewell; Ken Smith and India Davies (pictured), who won the junior prize in our picture competition, right back in February 2010 when we had just started our campaign.
So look out for the piece on Tuesday
Gregor
N.Gregor Macgregor
Chairman, The Grand Pavilion Ltd
See our Progress: www.savethepavilion.co.uk &
Support out vision: www.thegrandpavilion.co.uk
The Fell Runners Association have organised a fell race on Tuesday the 24th of April 2012 in aid of the Grand Pavilion.
There will be more information for members towards Christmas, but it will be an interesting event to go and watch; and maybe even join in!
More soon.
Gregor
N.Gregor Macgregor
Chairman, The Grand Pavilion Ltd
See our Progress: www.savethepavilion.co.uk &
Support out vision: www.thegrandpavilion.co.uk
Today I attended the University of the Third Age's Theatre Group meeting. I had been invited to speak about The Grand Pavilion and I was given three quarters of an hour!
The speech went well and sparked a lot of interest among the audience, with far more questions than I could answer in the time available.
We signed up eight members of the Friends of the Grand Pavilion and will get more back in the post; from forms that people took away with them.
Currently membership stands at around 810.
Gregor
N.Gregor Macgregor
Chairman, The Grand Pavilion Ltd
See our Progress: www.savethepavilion.co.uk &
Support out vision: www.thegrandpavilion.co.uk
We have now got a programme of events for the first three months of Next Year.
All these events will start at 7.30 prompt and will be at The Temple Hotel in Matlock Bath. They will be free to members and guests will be charged £5.
On the 14th of January we have Simon Groom presenting a selection of short documentary films that he has made recently. He will talk about how he made each film and then project it. The films will include “The Flying Scotsman”, “The Roundhouse”, “Alison Uttley”.
This will be followed on the 17the of February by Gerry Kreibich’s incredible show – music and humour. Follow this link for an idea of what it may be like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1kAmU-aZJM
Pollyanna Pickering will follow this on the 30th of March, with a talk on either her art or her wildlife conservation work.
I do hope you can make some of these events. I’m sure that you will enjoy them.
Gregor
N.Gregor Macgregor
Chairman, The Grand Pavilion Ltd
See our Progress: www.savethepavilion.co.uk &
Support out vision: www.thegrandpavilion.co.uk
The Friends of The Grand Pavilion has now launched its new website: http://www.thegrandpavilion.co.uk/
This represents a significant change from the original website. There are a number of new features:
· There is an events page that will be kept up-to-date with the monthly events that we are organising.
· Where you need to buy tickets for an event you will be able to do this directly from the website.
· The designs for the Grand Pavilion have their own page and a link to the detailed designs.
· You can see this Blog, keeping you up-to-date with our latest news, on a separate page.
Do link to our new website and I hope you will enjoy following it.
Gregor
N.Gregor Macgregor
Chairman, The Grand Pavilion Ltd
See our Progress: www.savethepavilion.co.uk &
Support out vision: www.thegrandpavilion.co.uk
