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A small group in the bush here, do a similar thing, they have found it great to cion it in & turn the brass!
It was such a good cion spinner, they have branched out, to knobble in on the trourist quids now.
By linking up with the Hotham Valley Railroad, which is run by the railway historical society & operated by enthusiasts. They run tourtist train trips every weekend end to the south west of the State. So on each of the 5 or so long weekends each year, they include a M&M train excurstions, staying over night at a country town motel.
Like you they write thier own & save on paying out  royalties.
Although I believe they have branched out into M&M river cruises, from thier base near Mandurah, a holiday spot an hour or so, south of Perth.
With the M&M train trips, they have a deal with the motel & the local Bridgetown Reperatory Community theatre group. Who hire & fit out the M&M punters, with  period costumes, on the saturday afternoon the train arrives for the stop over at the motel.
The motel returns all the costumes cleaned & ironed to the comeatre group after the long wekend. So it is a win win situation all round.
They were thinking of going in to corporate team building training productions. But our money grubbing federal government, pulled the pin on tax consetions for corporate training. Because it cut down on the amout they could waste by spending on politicains & thier flunkies, with th[er 'Fact finding mission' junkets. But that might change as the our little Bush Wombat - Jonny Howard  & his cronnies - might get the big A, at the next pending election. Though I doubt it, as they are all tared with the same brush & only concerned with how much they can fill thier own deep  pockets..

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Gday Peter & welcome - it's great to have another Geordie on the forum.
No I assume it would have been the gas system, except the Tyne theatre & Opera house, was the first venue in the North of England to be fitted out with an electric lights system.
When I was growing up there, it was a picture house  the 'Stoll'. So I never actualy worked there, as it was not converted back to a theatre, for some time after I came to Oz in 1960!
I would have thought the gas system would have been been taken out years before, when it became a picture house?
I can't remember if the Grand, that was on Byker Bank, had any remains of gas lighting, which still had the p*ss pots.  I never seen any gas pipes at the theatre  Royal either, but I was only 13 when I lwas last there.
I contacted the Tyne Theatre some years ago, when I was checking out my ancestors & the family tree bit.
Unfortunetly  they had  no information  on my Great Uncle Joseph Cowen, who built the theatre, even though his monument is just around the corner in front of Cowen House.
From what I was told by my family he got his old friend Joseph Swan, who developed  the longer life  incandescent globe on Tyneside, to have the theatre fitted out electricaly. Also I would not be surprised if he didn't roll up his sleaves & lay his own Cowen Fire Bricks in the building himself orginally some where, as a gesture?
He was quite a character at the time so it would not surprise me, although he was an MP & owner/ editor of the Newcastle Chronicle mewspaper, he alegedly used the shipments of his bricks to hide his gun running capers to Garibaldi & others.
I also believe in the miners riots against the police at Winlaton, the cannon the miners used, was furnished by him. Which was feasable as he put up the 10 thousand Pounds to start the Tyneside & scottish Regiment around  that same period.
I would have loved to have known him, but I was born 40 odd years after he died,