I finally got to do some proper visitor facing work over the last few weeks helping out at the Theatre on Cutty Sark. A broad range of acts has performed over the last few weeks including Robin Knox Johnson (I held his coat), Folk musicians, Richard Herring, Alan Davies and Ross Noble. I have worked on two of the nights and even got promoted to having a radio with an earpiece and having to learn the emergency evacuation procedure! Joking aside it was really great to work with the public again, I have missed it having spent much of my time in offices around the site.
I also got chance to talk to the VE team at Cutty Sark about my job and how things work at the Needles, which they found interesting. They were mortified at only getting 30 minutes for lunch and not having a mess room - they don't know they're born!
Wednesday, 12 February 2014
Binnacles as far as the eye can see!
I spent last week with estates and got to see some brilliant things, drains, gutters, a lawn that might have had Henry VIII's boatyard on it! I also got to see a couple of the other outstations and meet some of the very talented curatorial staff.
One of the storage rooms is packed to the ceiling with binnacles, and most of the compasses still point north - the man in the stores seemed surprised! There were also a number of Nelson's swords and the table of Longitude!
Obviously I can't tell you where it is and exactly what it contains but I did manage to get a sneaky picture. Warning - this maybe the most boring picture you ever see, I was under pressure!
But I promise it was way more exciting in real life!
I also met a man who can identify ships purely from their silhouette which is pretty impressive and useful as his job is identifying and cataloguing slides of ships!
One of the storage rooms is packed to the ceiling with binnacles, and most of the compasses still point north - the man in the stores seemed surprised! There were also a number of Nelson's swords and the table of Longitude!
Obviously I can't tell you where it is and exactly what it contains but I did manage to get a sneaky picture. Warning - this maybe the most boring picture you ever see, I was under pressure!
I also met a man who can identify ships purely from their silhouette which is pretty impressive and useful as his job is identifying and cataloguing slides of ships!
Up on the roof!
Over the last 6 weeks I have been involved in a project looking at new exhibitions at the Royal Observatory which has been a very interesting experience. I get to play the first time tourist and slag off their current exhibitions! It's like my kind of heaven! However, last week it stepped up a gear as we were looking at change to the visitor route which somehow ended up with the team on the roof of the Royal Observatory!
It's a shame the weather wasn't better but the view was still pretty impressive!
It's a shame the weather wasn't better but the view was still pretty impressive!
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