Weymouth Pavilion historical survey
We are at the moment arranging a series of interviews; so please get in contact. We are keen to talk to people about their memories of the Pavilion and hear all about their experiences. Your memories do not have to be 'major' events, or to have happened a long time ago. As you all know soon this building will not be there and your experience of last years Christmas Panto is as important as having visited the last building on this site, the Ritz.
We are interested in all your memories. If you would like to be interviewed or have any photographs you are willing to share, please contact us.
Funding from the Local Heritage Initiative
Westfield Technology College have secured funding from the Local Heritage Initiative to create a photographic and video archive of Weymouth Pavilion. The children from Westfield Technology College will investigate the historic uses of this building and build links with older community groups by interviewing locals and recording their reminiscences about.
Westfield Technology College aims to produce a valuable historical archive document, recording Weymouth pavilion and what people feel about it, exploring the buildings cultural and historic significance for the area. This project aims to help schoolchildren understand history through a contemporary issue.
Children, with their tutor and volunteers from Westfield Technology College, aided by an historian and a filmmaker, will research the heritage of Weymouth Pavilion. In 1954 a fire famously burnt down the popular Ritz Theatre and the 'new' Weymouth Pavilion Theatre opened on the site six years later. On completion of the children's investigation of this local heritage they will present what they discover to the public in an exhibition, a film on DVD (which would be distributed to all local schools) and a website, which will document their discoveries.
Download your own colour poster (right click and select save image as; 570Kb), or the black and white version (460 Kb) ready to be coloured in. To download please right click on these links, or on a Mac Ctrl-click, and choose save to disk.