I was delighted to see our Second Life Great Exhibition project from last year mentioned both here and in the Sydenham Town Forum, which you cite. In the end we (Miss Elspeth Woolley and I) decided not to bother even trying to make money out of the exhibition, as it looked like it would be very hard work.

If anyone is interested, an improved version of the building can still be found in Second Life at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Magellan%20Straits/127/172/26

The story of this building can be found at http://victoriansecondlife.ning.com/group/neighborhoods/forum/topics/crystal-palace-recollections

I have met with Nic (alias Mr Lucien Kranfel) in SL and I’ve agreed to lend one corner of my crystal palace build to provide a backdrop to his Pompeian pavilion. I am fascinated to see how things develop, and will be keeping a close eye on your project. I wish you both the very best with it.

Regards, Mako Magellan

Not enough time to twitter! Doing the blog helps us feel that we’re working in a methodical and organised way towards a well planned and timely goal. Hope I sounded convincing then!

Shelley/Gwendoline

Ben

I do hope you got my email. We’d be very happy to venture to the Fens!

Thanks so much for leaving a comment.

Yes, the rear of the house is a nightmare to recreate – from the guidebooks, we have a good idea of the colour schemes and we’ve identified the majority of the panel paintings from written descriptions so we can replicate those. But the detail of the decorative schemes is lost.

The other slight difficulty is, of course, that a lot of the better photographs are of the Buckland overhaul and it’s clear that a few alterations (mainly simplifications of the complicated decorative patterns) occurred at that time.

We have gathered a library of images which we’d love to post online, Unfortunately, worries about copyright issues mean that we’re wary of putting them all up and so we’re compiling a list of links to other websites and databases. Where we have images for which we have express permission to use digitally or do not have copyright implications (images from the Illustrated London News etc), these will be on display in Second Life. We should get a move on uploading onto the website so that everybody can access them, I think. That way it’d be a lot easier for us all to share our resources. I’ll get onto this.

It would be absolutely fantastic to see the images you have.
Shelley

It might be an idea to gather up as many pictures of the Pompeiian House as possible, including the 2 in colour. I could check all the ones I have, but the problem is: some rooms were never photographed because of the poor lighting.

Regards,

Giles

Also, I’m sure that traveling to Fenland would be entirely possible for us. My project partner Shelley has been in the US for three weeks and should be returning about now. If you can give me a day or so I will run speak to her about this and contact you again via email.

Very best wishes
Nic