Filming at George Street Chapel

We spent today working with Julian Baum and Claire Duval of Take 27 filming at George Street Chapel for Age UK Oldham. To help with interpreting the history of the chapel we wanted to reconstruct how a congregation might have looked. The short section will be set about 1916 when the chapel was celebrating its first centenary year and will be inserted into 3d digital reconstructions of how the chapel was constructed and altered throughout its life.

Take 27 filming the 'congregation' at George Street Chapel.

Compilation photograph, piecing together all the shots of 25 members of the 'congregation' each shot in seven different places within the chapel to give the impression of over 150 people.
The final piece will be part of a 30 second video clip. 

Verdin Technical School

Spent the morning being given a tour of the Verdin Technical School and Gymnasium. Until lately run as an art college by Mid-Cheshire College. Donated by Sir Joseph Verdin, salt proprietor of Cheshire to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, 1897. Opened by the Duke of Westminster.
Carolyn Shepherd is seeking to take over the building for use as affordable artists studios by the London Artists Collective.
I've been asked to help to help with the heritage aspects and to help them recruit a conservation architect.
It is strange in this QE II Diamond Jubilee year, and just after the 2012 London Olympic Games, to stand next to stained glass windows celebrating Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee and gymnastics, in an empty arts college!

The official opening of the Verdin Technical School and Gymnasium  by
the Duke of Westminster 24 July 1897