Raising the roof at the Bristol Hippodrome

Well, actually, the roof slides off to one side rather than raises but it is curious to be in a large theatre with an open sky – yes, we’ve recently been on the Bristol Hippodrome theatre tour and very interesting it was too. At nearly 100 years old and with over 400 events a year (yep, and they close for nearly a month!) it is a fascinating place and on the tour you get to go up into the flies, udner the stage where the water tank used to be, into the grade II listed ladies toilet and all around the auditorium. You may not be lucky enough to see the roof roll back but we were – and then it rained!

Go give the tour a try …