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          <rev user="Gavin" timestamp="2014-11-19T21:53:48Z" comment="Probably out of beta" contentformat="text/x-wiki" contentmodel="wikitext" xml:space="preserve">[[Image:ext3a.jpg|thumb|400px|South London Theatre]]

'''Welcome to the &lt;big&gt;South London Theatre Archive'''&lt;/big&gt;

*[[SLT History]]

*[[SLT Productions]]

*[[SLT Members' Pages]]

*[[SLT Members' Club Social Events|SLT Social Events]]

*[[Job roles|SLT Job roles]]

*[http://southlondontheatre.co.uk/restoration/index.php SLT Restoration Project]

We currently have a total of [[Special:statistics|{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} valid articles]].

Please have a look around and feed comments back to [[Feedback|Feedback Page]] as the the old discussion board is no longer available.

If you wish to contribute (and we hope that you do) please first have a look at the [[Help:Editing|How to edit the SLT Archive]] pages.  

If all is not clear (which is quite possible) again please feedback to the [[Feedback|Feedback page]] and we will do our best to help you.</rev>
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