Nikon Owner Essex Group Photographic Outing
The High House Production Park,
Purfleet, Thurrock, Essex,
Friday, 7th September, 2012
credit:highhouseproductionpark.co.uk
Andrew Roast, who runs the very successful Nikon Owner Essex Group, would like to invite everyone to attend the next photographic outing at The High House Production Park in Purfleet, Essex. The photo-event he has organized will provide the attendees with some most unusual photographic opportunities.
The Royal Opera House opened the Bob and Tamar Manoukian Production Building at Purfleet in December 2010, which is a scene-making facility for their opera and ballet productions on the High House site. It is used as a set-production workshop where world-class artists produce the sets and scenery required for the Royal Opera House’s Covent Garden stage. Andrew has organised with the management that the attendees will have photographic access to most areas including viewing galleries where set producers work.
It also houses the brand new National Skills Academy for Creative and Cultural arts and has the UK’s first ever backstage training centre.
The 14-acre site also contains a group of buildings including a historic farm, with a Grade II house and barn, and one of the best dovecotes in Southern England, which is a Scheduled Ancient Monument. The property includes the house, coachman’s cottage, chaise house, stable, granary, barn, workshop, cart sheds, dovecote, and inner and outer walled gardens, all of which provide possible further photographic opportunities. If the weather is good you will also have wonderful views of the QE2 Bridge from the roof of the Skills Academy, so Andrew Roast suggests that everyone brings appropriate lenses.
There is parking and a café on site.
Location:
High House Production Park
Vellacott Close (Off London Road)
Purfleet,
Essex, RM19 1RJ
Closest Public Transport: Purfleet British Rail station.
Meeting Place: The car park
Time to meet: 10.00 a.m.
Finish time: 1.00 p.m.
Booking: IMPORTANT
If you would like to join this photographic outing, would you kindly send an e-mail to Gillian Greenwood (gillian.greenwood@nikonownermagazine.com) with your full name, postcode, daytime telephone number and if available, your Nikon Owner user name/subscription number. In addition, please add your name to the thread on the Nikon Owner Message Board.
This sounds like a fantastic opportunity and one most certainly not to miss!
You are most welcome to attend by yourself or with your family, no matter where you live in the UK.
With very best wishes,
Gillian Greenwood
Features Editor and Events & Training Coordinator
