I would be lying if I said I knew anything significant about the Lincoln Grandstand, because in fact I know a very poor amount, considering I have been living here for 18 months now. Pretty much all I know is that it used to be a racecourse (obviously) and now it can be used for community functions. Saying this, I clearly remember spotting the building on my first day in Lincoln, when I travelled from home to the University for the first time; instantly I found it weirdly fascinating.

Just by looking at the building, I feel like I’ve gone back in time. I can picture the amount of people who must have flocked to this venue on big race days and I find it surreal how much history radiates from this building and the surrounding areas in general. I also feel a strange sadness as I’ve passed the building before and I think this is because of the busy road that runs straight through the middle between the Grandstand and the horse fields. Before discovering that the road wasn’t much of an obstruction to the venue and it still functioned as a race course, I thought that construction of advanced and busier roads must have ruined the building and the events held there. Even so, I think the road disrupts how picturesque the building is along with the surrounding fields.

This module and the work that consists within it is extremely out of my comfort zone however I am really looking forward to exploring and working on this site. I think the scale of this site in terms of its many components are helpful for further research and advanced knowledge of the building as a whole, allowing us to discover and study several spaces of the site as well as the main seating area. I think the building in general oozes a lot of character as well as history. I think this gives our group a lot to work with and I feel this will help in our groups researching and devising highly unique professional performances.