Shakespeare’s Timber Stage is the ‘Dry Equivalent of the Mary Rose’

The only surviving timber floorboards where William Shakespeare once performed are “larger than a tennis court” and are “the dry equivalent of the Mary Rose.”

That is according to Tim FitzHigham, the creative director of St George’s Guildham in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, who has for the best part of 18 months been working on a conservation project which will now see theatre work move to a different building on-site as layers of the floorboards are lifted over the coming months.