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Shaping a 21st Century Solution To Fit An Architectural Achievement Of The 50s!

by Michael VarleyGeneral News, Our Clients 28th August 20121st April 2016Comments are Disabled

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. …

Tailored Solutions For All Your Staging Needs

by Michael VarleyGeneral News 28th August 2012Comments are Disabled

Mainstage provides clients with 3D drawings as part of their pre-installation service so customers can see exactly what they are getting. Pictured is the sketch of the seating solution for Chesham Preparatory School. Two UK prep schools needed different solutions to help improve their presentation of The Arts. Both school head teachers were keen not …

Perfectly Staged Solution For College’s Grade Two Listed Chapel

by Michael VarleyGeneral News, Our Clients 28th August 20121st April 2016Comments are Disabled

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 …

New Tiered Seating Takes Centre Stage At Top York School

by Michael VarleyGeneral News, Our Clients, Products 28th August 2012Comments are Disabled

When the third oldest school in the country needed a solution to a complex theatrical problem they called on experts Mainstage. St Peter’s School, York, a co-educational boarding school founded in 627AD, wanted to develop a former church hall in the school grounds – converted some years earlier for use as the school’s drama studio …

When Google, Googled Portable Stages – Guess Who They Came To?

by Michael VarleyGeneral News, Our Clients 28th August 20121st April 2016Comments are Disabled

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 …

Curtain Goes Up On £70,000 Seating Deal

by Michael VarleyGeneral News, Our Clients 28th August 2012Comments are Disabled

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 …

Adorning The Wall Of Mainstage

by Michael VarleyGeneral News 28th July 2012Comments are Disabled

When The Corn Exchange in Witney was closed for repairs, the Town Council were left with a dilemma. They urgently needed a venue with the staging facilities to host their calendar of events. Fortunately the smaller Langdale Hall was available as an alternative venue, despite lacking a permanent stage. The contract to provide a demountable …

ABTT And Premier Stage Launch

by Michael VarleyGeneral News, Products 28th June 2012Comments are Disabled

The launch of the new extra heavy duty platform, Topdeck Premier, at ABTT was an unprecedented success. Demountable stage orders were taken on the stand for the first time in the 17 years we have been exhibiting. This year’s show at the Old Truman Brewery on Brick Lane in the East End was a complete …

Do I Need A Heavy Duty Or A Standard Duty Cameo?

by Michael VarleyGeneral News, Products 28th June 2012Comments are Disabled

A typical question people looking for a school stage ask is: Should we buy the heavy duty versions of Cameo because we are going to have fifty people performing on the stage at the same time? To which we answer, Standard Duty Cameo is more than adequate. A full cast of Oliver is exactly the …

Topdeck Premier – Our New Heavy Duty Deck

by Michael VarleyGeneral News, Products 28th May 2012Comments are Disabled

For the last two years, we have been developing our new monster heavy duty stage, Topdeck Premier. In April we were proud to launch the pre-production prototype at The PLASA Focus tradeshow in Leeds. Topdeck Premier is the latest step along the route to our strategy to manufacture a complete range of stages that link …