Tony has a long professional association with the Theatre Royal
Bristol which is currently closed thanks to its disastrous
mismanagement in so many ways by its last executives. This theatre
is the oldest in Britain. Given Tony's long association with it and
his own interest in it, I think there's an opportunity now to do a
"Time Team" on it! I know there's loads of history there which is yet
to be discovered, especially since I discovered that standing on the
stage front at the New Globe in Southwark places performers in exactly
the same relationship with the audience they have when standing on the
original stage front at the Theatre Royal Bristol. (The stage front at
Bristol stood where the third row of stall seats now stand. One has to
stand on the arms of these seats to see the relationship 18th century
performers had with their audience when Bristol first opened.)

Does anyone know how can i get in touch with him to suggest this? I
am about to publish the first scholarly article on the Theatre Royal
Bristol's history since the death of my associate Dr. Kathleen Barker,
the theatre's official historian. Theatre historians have long
believed that the original 18th century auditorium was seriously
altered c.1800 and that little of the 1766 interior survives. This is
complete nonsense, as I believe I can prove. I have made some
reconstruction drawings showing how the building looked when it opened
in 1766 and believe that the original auditorium survives entirely
intact. It was designed by David Garrick's carpenter, James Saunders.
Even the plaque outside wrongly describes "Thomas Paty" as the
"architect". In fact, in 1766 the word "architect" didn't always mean
"designer". It also meant "designer of interior plasterwork" which
was very common in the 18th century. The word "Architect" with a
capital A, did not become common till the late 19th century when
legislation associated with fire prevention ensured that this
profession became the "official" people who planned and designed
buildings. This took away the professional status of carpenters and
masons, reducing them to labourers. Hence the common belief
"Architects can't design buildings cos they don't build them!" and
"Builders spend most of their time correcting the mistakes made by
the Architects".