Loading the wood

Here we are loading wood onto Dave's trailer to be sold. This load got us around £300 towards the cost of restoring the Pavilion. It took us a while to load it though! 

The Main Hall is now ready for our Ski Film event this weekend. 

Gregor 

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Saturday Clean Up

Here is Les and some of the team who helped last Saturday. They are enjoying a cup of "real" coffee and a mince pie after a couple of hours hard labour.
We have now made enormous progress in the Grey Room and are starting to dismantle the bar there. In the under-stair area Eric had a good day pulling down partitions. Les and I had a day clearing the front entrance and outer office.
Gregor

More work at the Pavilion

Big work is going on at the Pavilion: clearing the Grey Room so we can use it more thoroughly, organising the stage and letting more light in at the front of the building. 

We are meeting at 10 am each Saturday morning. Join us! 

Gregor 

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Derbyshire Dales District Council Visits the Pavilion

Mike Galsworthy and Ben visited the Pavilion to discuss matters relating to parking, the illuminations, trees and construction issues. 

Charles, Dave , Andie and I took them round the building showing what we have done and what we are planning. 

We have given them a list of requests to take away for a decision.

Gregor   

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Great Evening at the Temple

John Gill is putting on a super evening at the Temple tonight. I aid of Sheffield Hospital's Neurocare Unit they hope to raise a lot of money! 

Gregor 

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Photos from the weekend

 

Derwent Valley Mills Discovery Days

We had the Pavilion open over the weekend for the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site Discovery Days. These were a great success with 38 people attending and having the tour of the building on Saturday and 30 on the Sunday.

Photographed is Charles giving the lecture. Lynn also worked hard with around 10 new members signed up over the weekend.

Gregor

The final balcony!

We have now managed to dismantle the last of the balconies that were left over from the nightclub days. This has been a major task one the last few months. Now we have a clear hall for events which allow us to let the hall without any space restriction. 

There it's still a lot of tidying up to do, but we should be able to move the rubble on time and before the next event. 

Gregor  

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A Great Weekend!

Overall we had a super weekend this weekend taking around £1,500, of which we should see an increase in Pavilion Funds of around £1,000.
In the Café we raised around £500 of this and thanks must go to Judy, Andie, Trina and Dave for their help.
We also signed up five new members, without really trying!
The view is of a customer just leaving the café having had an enjoyable drink!
Gregor

Successful Craft Market

We have had a successful Craft Market this weekend, helped in no small way by the Fireworks Night in Matlock Bath.
We had 17 stalls altogether, with a range of goods from weathervanes to Christmas decorations. Most did well and sold a good quantity of stock.
For the first time we used our "Street Team"; licenced young teenagers who deliver leaflets to passers-by, reminding them that the market is open. It was clear when they went out because within a few minutes we had a rush of people arriving at the Pavilion entrance! Thanks to Lily, Lily and Annabel who between them did the work.
Gregor

What an Amazing Evening!

Judy organised the Café stall last night and it was incredible!
From 6.30 to 9.15 it never really stopped. We were offering Hot Dogs, Baked Potatoes, Tea, Coffee, Hot Chocolate and a range of soft drinks and doughnuts. We pretty much ran out of everything!
Judy, Jane, Penny, plus Charles (GmacG), Becks and Felix all helped and together raised a turnover of £480, just from this stall! This will give us a good profit towards Pavilion Funds and be added towards the Café takings over the weekend (more later).
During the evening it started to rain and I gave a virtuoso performance of how to NOT put up a gazebo! I had to erect it OVER the tables and then get the roof on; whilst people were still serving our customers underneath! It paid a wonderful reward when the rain rally came. We were able to provide a dry area for our foods our servers and our customers.
A great evening was had by all!
Gregor

Cash Machine Usage

We are down again on usage of the cash machine in the Pavilion. The main summer months had 17,700 withdrawals down from 19,900. This reduces our income by 20%. Still well up on when the council used to gain the income, but not so good as before.
We still need to ensure that everyone who can use the machine goes as often as they can. Even small withdrawals each give us an income.
Gregor

Final Painting Tuesday

Here are Les and Mike painting the radiator at the top of the stairs. Over the late summer and early autumn Les and his team have worked their way up the stairs and started to paint the corridor at the top. A tremendous job has been done and it has made the Grand Pavilion a much more pleasant building to enter.
This was the last Tuesday morning workgroup and thanks should be recorded to Stella and Pam Roddis, Eric Fern, Tony Ball and of course Dave Mowle.
We will be starting the heavy work on Saturday the 9th of November when we start to dismantle the last platform, the one on the right of the Ballroom. This will be an event! Come at 10am to be part of this great project. Come each Saturday that you can, but we will also be working on Sundays from the 10th onwards.
Gregor

Pavilion Cafe Fireworks No 2!

We had another good night at the Matlock Bath Illuminations Fireworks. The weather was awful, but five of us appeared and sold teas, coffees and some food to people wishing to get out of the drizzle.
Here are Penny and Yvonne with a couple of customers, thanks also to Les and Annabel. For most of the evening I was busy persuading people to come and visit our stall.
Gregor

Doug Smith and Roxy Music

Doug Smith gave a wonderful talk to the Friends of the Grand Pavilion. He described his experiences with Island Music, making videos of groups in the early years of this medium. He showed a number of the clips that had not been seen before.
He finished with a video he made as a student, part of which showed Teddy Boys visiting the Grand Pavilion.
Gregor