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Welcome to the Winter Gardens Theatre |
The Morecambe Winter Gardens built as The Victoria Pavilion theatre in 1897 and situated on the resorts central promenade within sight of Morecambes other grade 2* listed building, The Midland Hotel.
Since its formation in 1986, The Friends of The Winter Gardens charity has represented all who love this famous theatre which sadly closed to the public in 1977 and has worked to protect the building pending full restoration.
In Spring 2006, The Friends judged the time was right to purchase The Winter Gardens and formed a charitable trust company limited by guarantee. The Morecambe Winter Gardens Preservation Trust Limited now owns the building and complements the Friends fund-raising by focussing on applications to potential funding bodies based on recent professional assessments that argue persuasively the theatre has a viable future if restored as a multi-purpose venue.
This homepage is a virtual foyer to The Winter Gardens and The Friends are pleased to invite you through its pages to explore and contribute to the rich history, exciting present and proposed future of what is quite simply an amazing building.
Twenty years of campaigning at last begin to bear fruit. But The Friends are acutely aware of their responsibility as owners and of the difficulties yet to be overcome before the Victoria Pavilions curtain rises again. Under charity ownership the theatre is truly A Peoples Palace and, with your generous support, may serve as a place of all-weather community entertainment as well in the 21st Century as it did in a star-studded past.
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Evelyn Archer, Chair says:
"We are settling in and we are here to stay."
"To read the latest news, please follow this link |
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