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STOP PRESS - 15 May 2012. Due to severe financial problems, the Theatre Royal Margate Trust has been dissolved and the lease repurchased by Thanet District Council and will now be run by Thanet Leisure Force.See the text of TDC's press release here
Originally posted April 2007 About ten years ago I became involved as a volunteer with the Theatre Royal Margate. I loved the place so much that, when I was made redundant from my previous retail furnishing management job, I started to spend more and more time there. Within a year of losing one job, I had a new one as Marketing Manager of the Theatre Royal, for over five years it's been the best job I've ever had!
Originally posted April 2007 About ten years ago I became involved as a volunteer with the Theatre Royal Margate. I loved the place so much that, when I was made redundant from my previous retail furnishing management job, I started to spend more and more time there. Within a year of losing one job, I had a new one as Marketing Manager of the Theatre Royal, for over five years it's been the best job I've ever had!
But as you may know, at the end of March 2007, the Theatre Royal was purchased by Thanet District Council, one of the conditions of the sale was that all the staff were to be made redundant (five full time plus assorted casuals and volunteers) as it would be closing for six months and changing it's programming to more community based product.
As of today(April 11th, coincidently my 55th birthday) , I have left the theatre but the theatre has not left me, so I plan over the next few months/years to use this site as a celebration of this amazing building. I will be using some of the personal archive that I have collected, purchased or researched in my own time, to help preerve the long and glorious history of one of the oldest theatres in the country.
But let's start at the end of the current chapter in it's multi faceted life. Below are a few pictures of some of the staff and volunteers after the final public performance at 'their' Theatre Royal on Easter Monday April 9th 2007.
This site is dedicated to all those who gave their time and enthusiasm to try to make a dream work, let's hope it wasn't in vain!
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i read with interest about auntie pat being intered in the wall back stage but their is no mention of the person who put her there.i would like put that right.it was me.
i read your bit about pat with interest. but do you know the person who buried her.it was me.
Thanks for the update Fred, I'll add it to the entry.
David
David
Gosh I truly feel honoured to be part of your Theatre Royal Archive blog! Good luck in the Sarah Thorne Theatre Club adventure! Until we meet again, Maggie
Will there be any more?
Hello, David,
Very interested in your material concerning your time at Margate Theatre Royal. We are in the process of preparing an article about the theatre for our theatre devotees' magazine, OLD THEATRES, and would be pleased to hear from you. Please contact us on oldtheatres@googlemail.com
All best wishes
Jayne Darcy
Information is being prepared for an article on Margate Theatre Royal for as forthcoming article in OLD THEATRES magazine during 2010. If you have any information about restoration work on this theatre, please contact us on oldtheatres@googlemail.com
If you would like a copy of the magazine just ask. Our Patrons include Ken Dodd O.B.E. and each Edition contai9ns over 100 illustrations, together with articles about halls of entertainment throughout Britain.
OLD THEATRES magazine is completing the preparation of an important article on the history of the Theatre Royal, Margate for its summer edition. Considered one of Britain's most historic and best preserved theatres, it will feature both new and old photographs. The magazine is produced threew rtimes a year under the Patronage of Mr. Ken Dodd, OBE. For more details about it and how to obtain a copy, please E Mail oldtheatres@googlemail.com
Just to let everybody know that the Summer edition of OLD THEATRES magazine is about to be distributed. The article by our Editor, Ted Bottle, on the Theatre Royal, Margate, looks absolutely fabulous with eleven pictures (two of them in colour). Its a wonderful thing to keep for all time and to pass on to your grandchildren. For your copy, please E Mail oldtheatres@googlemail.com
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