The lower fly floor at the Theatre Royal, Birmingham, the area where the ropes controlling the rise and fall of the moveable panels of painted scenery on the stage were operated and tied off. The floor was more precisely a gallery above the stage.

Date:
circa Jan 1901 - Jan 1902
Location:
Theatre Royal, New Street, Birmingham
Reference:
CC76/00700
Type:
Photograph (Negative)
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Description

Above this area was the upper fly floor. The scenery-supporting ropes ran up through the wooden floor from the lower fly floor, here pictured, and ran over large wooden drums which operated as pulleys. This image was reproduced on page 63 of Richard Southern's 1970 book, 'The Victorian Theatre - a Pictorial Survey', although he is likely to have sourced the image from either the archives of the Drama Department at the University of Bristol or from Birmingham Reference Library, as credited in the acknowledgements of the book. A photograph of the upper fly floor can be seen on the facing page, page 62.

Content

This is part of the Series: THR01/01 Theatre Royal and Bragg's Wine Cellars, Birmingham, circa 1901-1902; within the Collection: THR01 Theatre Royal, Birmingham

Rights

Source: Historic England Archive

Keywords

Machinery, Georgian Theatre, Victorian Theatre