The first thing we made for our model box was the seating area. We created lots of scaled 8’ by 4’ rectangles and used them with our scaled plan drawing to work out the best arrangement to get the most seats, whilst still having a clear emergency exit. We made these out of foamboard as it was quick to cut and meant that it already had a thickness close to the thickness we wanted so we could see the incline as well as the floor space.

We then used our drawings and sketches to start to create a very rough first model to show to the directors. We also used foamboard for this as it is a very easy material to work with, although it doesn’t look as good as other material. My team mate and I worked on the forest set and the forest seating. We created a massive platform with stairs at one end. We then created lots of trees to be placed at seemingly random places all over the platform. We also created a circle platform 2’ down from the main platform to symbolise the witching circle. This is also surrounded by trees to help it tie in with the main platform.

After we discussed the plans with the directors and showed them the rough models, we started with the white card model. We started using different materials depending on what we wanted. The stairs were made of card so that we could make them the exact dimensions we needed them to be. We created each staging out of the card and then glued them together to make the seating area. This helped us keep track of how many staging pieces we were using and helped show anyone looking at the model what it is made of. We also did the same thing for the main platform of the forest, but the extra lips around the outside are just extra card and not staging. We also started making the trees out of balsa to make them look more round and like we want them to look. To create these round trees, we used lengths of square balsa and then used the dremel to round off the wood. When using the dremel, all the safety precautions were taken into consideration; like using goggles, keeping hands out of the way and not breathing in the wood dust. I did all this instinctually and was very safe using it. We also started to create more details like ladders for the actors to climb and vines made out of fimo.

Today we changed a few parts of our new set idea, Robbie said that he liked it but there were a few minor alterations that needed to be made, such as the ramp being wider, the platform on one side needed an angled edge etc.

After finishing these alterations and we gave the entire model a white base coat.

Today I caught up with what the others had been doing whilst I had missed a day for my guildhall interview. Before leaving on Thursday I came up with a design of what we could have put on one of the walls and made a model of it.

Anne Bronte was born on the 17th of January 1820 and is the youngest of three Bronte sisters (Emily and Charlotte being the older), who's literature has become famous throughout British history. 

Anne together with her sister Emily wrote poetry and stories for their imaginary world Gondal. They worked together on these well in to the 1840's and few survive. 

Between 1840 and 1845 she worked for the Robinson family at Thorp Green York and it was with this family that she took her first visit to Scarborough. In May 1846 under the Pseudonym of Currer Ellis and Acton Bell she published 21 one poems in a book of Poems published in that year. In 1848 Anne published her novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall which is a novel, framed as a letter from Gilbert Markham to his friend and brother-in-law about the events leading to his meeting his wife. It is the most known of her two novels the other being Agnes Grey. 

In January 1849 Anne was diagnosed with Tuberculosis and on the 24th of May 1849 her sister Charlotte and Ellen Nussey take her to Scarborough in the hope that the sea air will help alleviate her symptoms. However on the 28th May 1849 at the age of 28 she died. She was laid to rest at the St Mary's Churchyard in Scarborough on Castle Hill, which overlooks the bay. 

Scarborough beach South Bay was a well known place to Bronte's, particularly who walked on the beach two days before her death so it is fitting that she is buried in Scarborough 

I think Robbie chose to include Anne Bronte's grave in the play because it allows the characters who visit the grave to see that life can be short, by looking at the age she was when she dies. This perhaps links to the blood shed suffered in the First World War which occurred not long after the Brewery Beano. Similarly he could of chosen to include it as it is perhaps a place of interest in Scarborough for tourists. 

Victorian Beaches

1871 Bank Holiday Act and the expansion of the railways allowed more people to visit seaside’s. Costal towns like Blackpool, Scarborough, Llandudno and Brighton quickly became popular holiday resorts.

Working Classes from factory towns went on day trips whilst the wealthier members of society would visit seaside resorts for a week, staying in hotels or guest houses. In order to attract the visitors to their seaside town’s piers were built out into the sea.

Whilst at sea side towns people could enjoy different forms of entertainment these included;

Punch and Judy Shows

Eating Ice Cream (which was sometimes called hokey pokey)

Riding on Donkeys

Building Sand Castles

Eating Fish and Chips

Watching variety acts at music halls.

Most people could not swim in the Victorian period, they could only paddle. Wealthier people paid to get changed in bathing machines. Bathing machines were wooden carts pulled into the sea by horses. A lot of people couldn’t afford to buy costumes so they had to hire them. 

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