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Above: Despite much more space this year, the complex was still packed to capacity
throughout the day. This year's event polled our highest ever attendance.
Below: Dealers were also on hand to tempt our visitors with the
very latest in specialist memorabilia.
Below Left: Darren Field ducks out of the Norton Room for a much-needed gulp of air!
Our second viewing area traditionally provides a themed alternative to the well-known or ultra-rare presentations in the Main Room. This year's theme was Music and Mirth, a heady combination of classic sitcom and the best of variety and light entertainment programming, interspersed with some rare and legendary musical turns from popular bands and artists ranging in scope from the sixties to the eighties.
We expected this would appeal to a relatively small, niche audience; in fact it proved hugely more popular than anticipated, and the Norton Room remained packed out even into the late evening. Unfortunately, due to our wholesale move to the ground floor of Stourbridge Town Hall this year, the problem was made worse by the smaller size of the second room. The most popular programmes, such as Whodunnit?, ensured there was standing room only for those fortunate enough to actually get inside to take a look!
Kaleidoscope were delighted at the popularity of Music and Mirth and will be bringing you more of this sort of programming at The Main Event in 1997. We also have plans to move the second viewing area to a larger room next time and even, possibly, introduce a third room. Wait and see...
Below: Even just before Closedown, the Norton Room still had a good audience for Music and Mirth.
People often ask us why we support the Royal National Lifeboat Institution given that we're based in a completely land-locked area of the country. The answer is simple: it is in such areas that the public's general awareness of the value of the lifeboat service is often at its lowest, with the result that the charity needs as much help as possible to maximise its fund-raising during the year.
People cannot afford to adopt a complacent attitude towards this invaluable service, which is staffed 24 hours a day entirely by volunteers. Anyone could find themselves in need of rescue by the lifeboats, regardless of where they normally live, and we urge everyone who supports Kaleidoscope to give a voluntary contribution, no matter how large or small this might be.
We also chose to support the RNLI because, unlike some other charities that keep a large amount of their funds in the bank or spend money extensively on overheads and administration, the vast majority of what the RNLI collect goes directly to support the actual maintenance of the lifeboat service. For every £1.00 someone might give as a voluntary contribution, 84p is spent on maintaining and replacing the existing fleet, building new lifeboats, providing shore facilities or purchasing vital equipment for the crew. 12p is channelled into fund-raising and the remaining 4p is spent on day-to-day administration. If you give money to this worthy cause, you know it will go to where it is most needed.
Above: Our friends from the RNLI Stourbridge Branch relax after a long day
in which they spearheaded catering for the masses.
Above: Sound engineer Kathryn Shuttleworth and the main audio control desk.
Below: Technical Director Mark Shuttleworth and the main vision control area.
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