Rotary Club of Shanklin Sponsor Theatre Window Restoration Thanks to the generous donation of £4000 by the Rotary Club of Shanklin, Shanklin Theatre and Community Trust is able to continue with the long overdue restoration of the Theatre’s windows, which were installed over 80 years ago and are in need of total overhaul and repair. …
Repairs to Shanklin Theatre are moving on apace – two more badly corroded steel windows have been removed for repair and the openings boarded up. The windows will be stripped back to bare metal, corroded sections cut out and new sections welded in, before a powder paint coat is baked on, ready for re-installation. A …
The Friends of Shanklin Theatre became one of the first to install a public Defibrillator in the Shanklin area back in 2014, and last year it was put to good use when it saved the life of John Howard. For the first two years it had been held at the Light and Sound Desk in …
Recent visitors to the Theatre can’t fail to have noticed the scaffold erected on the front of the building. The purpose of this is to allow access to the canopy above the entrance for inspection and repair. The canopy is composed of strong steel joists which have corroded, requiring the corroded sections to be cut …
Shanklin Theatre receives its 2nd fully restored window replacement “Thanks once again to kind and generous donations, a second theatre steel window has been removed, repaired and reinstalled. The knowledge gained during the repair of the first window helped speed up the repair of the second window and it is looking every bit as pristine …
SHANKLIN THEATRE EARNS 2016 TRIPADVISOR CERTIFICATE OF EXCELLENCE Anthony Wood, Shanklin Theatre Community Trust & Shanklin Theatre Secretary today announced that the Theatre has received the 2016 TripAdvisor® Certificate of Excellence. Now in its sixth year, the achievement celebrates hospitality businesses that have earned great traveller reviews on TripAdvisor over the past year. Certificate of …
STAGE IS SET FOR HAPPIEST DAY AFTER SHANKLIN THEATRE PROPOSAL LOVE was in the air when Mark Kelly stage-managed his marriage proposal to the producer of a show in front of a cheering packed Shanklin Theatre on Saturday evening 4th June. It was an amazing night in every sense for Charlotte Short, who also performed …
A NOTE FROM DAVID KAST – THE NEW CHAIR OF FOST “Ordinary people doing extraordinary things for their Community”. This was the headline of an article I was reading a couple of months ago regarding another community project in the UK. At the time I was struck how it also applied to all that FOST …
As many will know, the Theatre’s steel windows have seen better days! They date back to the 1930s when the theatre was created from the ashes of the Shanklin Institute. The windows have served the theatre very well, having started their life before the days of galvanising (rust proofing) but are well past their predicted …
Peter Coleman, Chair of Friends of Shanklin Theatre pays tribute to Ivan Needham. “Ivan leaves a legacy which we can all applaud. His diligence to ensure that the Friends of Shanklin Theatre accounts were immaculately kept and that the financial priorities were strictly adhered to will never be bettered. Softly spoken and always easily approachable …
