The beacon was mounted on the roof of the town hall and our job was to provide a three minute display after the firemen had lit it.
Everything was very straight forward. Apart from the need to climb a ladder to get all of the gear onto the roof. This was quite a chore, especially as I'm not very good at using one hand on a ladder and carrying in the other hand.
Once everything was up, we got rigged and ready:
St Albans itself was rammed - a giant street-party-come-concert ran from about 11am until the lighting of the beacon at 10:15pm:
The firemen lit the beacon and retreated to a safe distance:
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| Yup, that small light above the Town Hall is the beacon being lit. |
Photo courtesy of stephengg on Flickr
And then the show happened:
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| Photos courtesy of stephengg on Flickr |
There was cheering, then the crowd trundled off home and we had a mercifully quick derig and clear up.
2 comments:
Awesome, so excited about this as I was wondering, while I was watching the Queen light the beacon, and the ensuing fireworks show at the concert venue, if you were somehow involved! I hadn't realized there were beacons all over the country!
@Elle - if only our show was as big as the one the Queen had! Glad you enjoyed the jubilee celebrations too :)
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