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The University of Huddersfield Drama Department wanted to replace outmoded seating used in their two studio theatres with an easy-to-assemble, lightweight, ‘student proof’ system. They needed something extremely flexible, multi-purpose, highly durable and, at the same time, quick and easy to erect and dismantle to make way for other activities on the floor space. The …

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Surrey Space Centre, a leading centre of excellence in space engineering, needed a special seamless surface for part of its latest work with solar sails. The centre, which underpins the technical development of the space industry through advanced research programmes, is based at the University of Surrey in Guildford. Work is currently progressing on a …

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I have just returned from delivering a new stage to Crosslee Primary in Blackley, Manchester, and what a delight it was. I was given a team of helpers who put the stage up for me. After I unloaded the van, and got all the sections into the hall, they set to work. With very little …

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A Cambridge high school with a challenging staging problem called on experts Mainstage to provide a versatile and flexible solution. Impington Village College, which became an Academy in February 2012, was designed in the 1950s. It was classed as a remarkable achievement and influenced the design of school buildings and school halls in subsequent generations. …

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Need: Worksop College needed an easy-to-assemble, easy-storage, cost-effective stage to enable them to present orchestral and choral concerts in the college chapel. St Cuthbert’s Chapel, a Grade Two Listed Building, is at the heart of the college, a co-educational day and boarding school in Nottinghamshire. Staging is needed to level out the stepped, altar area …

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Madness they say starts with believing in your own advertising. However it was gratifying when the organisers of a Google conference being staged in Germany found The Topdeck website through their own clients search engine, and ordered the stage from us. They had realised that Topdeck Cameo stage decks were perfect for their requirements  from …

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A Lancaster business, which has played a major role in the world of theatre for 23 years, is one of the region’s true success stories. Mainstage, based at Butler Works in Wyresdale Road, manufactures and sells portable staging and seating decks into markets ranging from professional theatre to village halls, from universities to primary schools …

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Curved stages tend to be all in a day’s work at Mainstage’s Topdeck factory. However the rather innocuous one you can see in the photograph was highly unusual. Set in the soaring Atrium of the new Addenbrooke’s hospital teaching building, the Cameo stage will be used to showcase anything from formal presentations to stand-up comedy. …

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