BBCNEWS BBC News at One January 25, 2022 13:29:00
Was specifically shut, to allow all 30,602 individual blocks in the dance floor to be stripped back to their original state. oak, mahogany and walnut. yeah, it was a mess. it was over 100 coats of seal on the floor that we had to take off before we got back to the original wood, to even start to make it look like this, so... 100 layers of varnish? yeah, yeah. yeah, there's more than we've ever had to take off before. the ballroom opened in 1894, and all that dancing over the years had taken its toll. now, what i've learnt is that this used to be the area to avoid on the dance floor because the...