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Edinburgh Fringe. After repeated delays and a massive overspend, when Fairfield Halls reopened six months before Covid hit, it was unfinished. With the venue still virtually dormant, Tim Bano investigates how inexperience and mismanagement failed the community and plunged Croydon Council into crisis.

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A pipe organ is a complex instrument with thousands of pipes and loads of moving parts that would need to be completely removed to protect it from dust and other building work. The organ world is fairly incestuous and it would be a potentially prestige project, yet no one seems to know who this was entrusted to. Does it even still work or is it now clogged up with asbestos dust and debris?

As I remember it was illustrated at the bottom with the faces of great actors of the past and actors with links to Croydon like Roy Hudd. Perhaps the Fairfield safety curtain will be found up on the roof, ripped into some big patches to stop the rain coming in the holes.

With screw drivers poked through the holes to keep the canvas in place. In a bizarre way, I really hope so, because at least then, this superb work of art— painted in — could be rescued, sewn back together, and restored. It was a fairly late work, one of the biggest paintings designe dand executed by Henry Bird 15 July — 16 April , a Northamptonshire born artist, best -known for theatre scenery design and painting from the nude.

The portraits were characterful depictions, almost caricatures— the list includes Samuel Coleridge Taylor, Composer. Artist Henry Bird painted one more theatre curtain-at his native Northampton. One hope that the latter still exists unless the site is taken down by someone seeking to save a few coppers. The site is The Fairfield Collection.

What has really happened to the curtain. Is it lurking in a big plastic bag under the railing-less stage?. Or was it burned in a paladin bin round by the back door? Who was charged with safekeeping of the safety curtain? If not, another post-lockdown task beckons. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Email Address. Sign me up! News, views and analysis about the people of Croydon, their lives and political times in the diverse and most-populated borough in London.

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With the perfect hub for arts, culture and creativity in place, the technology had to match — and it was Sound Space Vision SSV who the venue turned to when it came to the refurbishment. Sign in. Forgot your password? Get help. Password recovery.