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5). not the Lion. Painting, woodwork, fishing, beer, food, Thinking outside the box, talking, some history, d.i.y., Amateur Dramatics; Writing; Reading; Music, Fishing; Art. 98 For further detail on the decline of dance halls, see Nott, Going to the Palais, pp. Many of the Musicians from the former Orch. 1. Wright, Catherine In October 1930, the Birmingham Palais de Danse was refurbished in Japanese style, and the following year Maxime's Dance Club in Edinburgh was entirely redecorated using herbaceous landscape scenes, Riviera painting and floodlighting principles.Footnote 89. I do need to take in an East Anglian event. I love the Palais for taking me to a special place on a Monday night once a week and kicking the week off with a bang. Performer: Wayne King and his Orch.Writer: Sid PhillipsFox Trot.Digitized at 78 revolutions per minute. had a good atmosphere as well. History. E.g Love On A Mountain Top (with some solid clapping) and Everything's Gonna Be Alright. Mecca's Mayfair dance hall in Newcastle, opened in 1961, is a good example (Fig. He remembered the bands female lead singer, Pandora, was married to the Palaiss manager. There was a small area called 16 See Walton, John K., The Re-making of a Popular Resort: Blackpool Tower and the Boom of the 1890s, Local Historian, 24 (1994), pp. The architect commissioned to make the conversion was Bertie Crewe (d. 1937), one of the country's leading theatre architects, who had designed over a hundred theatres, music halls and cinemas throughout Britain, including the Piccadilly and Shaftesbury theatres in London and the Palace Theatre, Manchester.Footnote 34 Booker and Mitchell's decision to employ an architect of national standing was indicative of their determination to make an architectural statement as a way of enhancing the reputation of their new venture. 4145CrossRefGoogle Scholar. I emigrated to Australia in 1972 but have very fond memories of those times. A few years later Ric Lee joined the well known rock band Ten years After and actually played at the world famous Woodstock festival. Hi Bill and John. Finally Hockley was left behind and the Palais loomed into view in all her magnificence and glory. Postcard view of the Chinese themed interior, Hammersmith Palais, 1921 (author's private collection). 86 MOA, Worktown (WC), 48/C, Shall We Dance?, 1938, p. 3. At the Locarno, Bradford, 35,000 Italian-made light bulbs were used on its blue painted ceiling which, when lit on their own, gave the impression of a starlit sky at night.Footnote 93, Along with these visual delights, the dance hall would immerse its patrons into an intense, vibrating world of sound. The first requirement was sufficient uninterrupted space for a large dance floor. We used to go to most of the Nottingham ballrooms,The Palais, The Queens , The Elizabethan Rooms, The Sherwood Rooms Etc. I have a long and fond relationship with the old Notts Palais. Feature Flags: { The site had previously been a dairy farm, then a tram depot, and finally a roller-skating rink, and on conversion could accommodate about 2500 people in its double-height space.Footnote 35 In 1921, Dancing World magazine published an illustration of its broadly classical faade and vestibule, its size exaggerated by being drawn wildly out of scale (on the left in Fig. Often went there for a couple of beers before going over the road to the Palais. 2 Cheltenham Chronicle, 18 December 1920, p. 8. Nottingham, Family, 4).Footnote 36 The interior design (on the right) was a chinoiserie fantasy employing the contemporary fashion for oriental motifs. Anyone with any memories? Heimann, Joint Chairman, Mecca Ltd, The Age of the Dream Palace: Cinema and Society in Britain, 19301939, Contesting Popular Dancing and Dance Music During the 1920s, Postcard view of the interior of the dance hall at Pawtuxet, Rhode Island, 1911 (author's private collection), Bandstand at the Mayfair, Newcastle, opened in 1961 (Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums), Postcard view of Cricklewood Dance Hall and Skating Rink, 1920s (author's private collection), Exterior and interior of the Hammersmith Palais (illustration from, Postcard view of the Chinese themed interior, Hammersmith Palais, 1921 (author's private collection), Elaborate neon lighting at the Hammersmith Palais, early 1960s, Exterior of the Leicester Palais, a purpose-built dance hall, 1926 (author's private collection), Handsome corner entrance to the Astoria Palais de Danse, Bolton, 1928 (Bolton News/Newsquest Photos), Promotional literature for the Locarno, Stevenage, 1961 (Museum Services, Stevenage, Hertfordshire), Frontage of the Nottingham Palais, showing its illuminated globe, 1925 (Nottingham City Council and picturethepast.org.uk), Interior of the Nottingham Palais, 1925 (Nottingham City Council and picturethepast.org.uk), Blackpool Locarno, one of Mecca's new multi-purpose entertainment venues, 1965 (Simon Mallett/public domain), Postcard view of the entrance tower of the Locarno, Coventry, 1960 (author's private collection), Populist Palatial, postcard view of the rich, colourful interior of the Palais de Danse, Derby, 1923 (author's private collection), Postcard view of aristocratic mural paintings in the vestibule of the Palais de Danse, Derby, 1923 (author's private collection), Luxe-modern, everyday glamour at the Mayfair dance hall, Newcastle, 1961 (Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums), Ladies Boudoir, Mayfair dance hall, Newcastle, 1961 (Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums). 32 See MOA, MDJ, 3/A, C.L. At Christmas? Powered by Invision Community, Fly Fishing, Golf, Gardening, Reading, 1960s Music, Gilbert & Sullivan, Cricket, Notts County, Archery, Railways, Movies, Art, Travel. Lots of similarities for me, meet at the Man in Space at Hiltop, jump on the bus from Ripley to Nottingham, mooch down Parliment street I think and into the queue. Between 1918 and 1932, there were nearly thirty cinemas with dancing licences in the city, including the Carlton Super Cinema, the West End Cinema and the Lido Super Cinema.Footnote 66 Dance halls in more elaborate multi-purpose buildings really came into their own in the late 1950s and 1960s as part of the wave of urban redevelopment that swept through the country. In September 1931, the Nottingham Palais paid more than 1000 laying a new dance floor, and in October 1933 the Hammersmith Palais spent 5000 on a maple floor. 61 Nottingham Evening Post, 9 November 1929, p. 6. My future wife, Sylvia Chesterman was from Alfreton and I was born in Mansfield many years ago! Postcard view of Cricklewood Dance Hall and Skating Rink, 1920s (author's private collection), The entrepreneurs behind Britain's first palais de danse, Booker and Mitchell, attracted an impressive 30,000 investment from shareholders, including the margarine manufacturer Sidney Van de Burgh.Footnote 33 The Hammersmith Palais was an instant success. The New Bristol Centre was perhaps the zenith of these multi-purpose buildings. If any body remembers me Mansfield, Blidworth, Rainworth areas ladies and gents Hello. We can't bring them day's back, but we won't forget em either. Appearing as Twos Company the next date was 05/11/1967. Dance halls were constructed as dream worlds where working-class men and women could be transported from the reality of their lives by vibrant colour and human interaction, liberating movement and rich, emotive music, sounds and smells. 82 TWA, DT.Tur/4/AG1838, Mayfair Ballroom, Newcastle Dance Floor (1961). 1896), whose interwar work also included the Casino Assembly Rooms in Stepney, east London, which contained a ballroom.Footnote 42 A notable survival, the Ritz dance hall built in Manchester in 1928, was an early work of the Manchester practice of Cruickshank and Seward.Footnote 43, Choosing well-established architects demonstrated the willingness of dance-hall businesses to make significant investments and helped attract publicity. The Palais de Danse, built by Midland Palais de Danse Limited, opened on the corner of King Edward Street, John Street and Convent Street (now Upper Parliament Street) on 24 April 1925. At the time, Harry was drummer with the Palaiss resident trio, The Mike Miller Set, led by singer/guitarist Mike Hester, said Adrian. Pryzm Nottingham is a chain nightclub located on Upper Parliament Street in Nottingham, England. For example, the New Survey of London Life and Labour, conducted in 1928, found that, To-day dancing as an active recreation appeals to many people of all classes [] The dance-halls are within the range of nearly everybody's purse, and typists, shop assistants and factory girls rub shoulders in them [] People drop into a palais after the day's work or on Saturday evenings as casually as they go to a cinema.Footnote 77. The same probably goes for Cobblestone. The harmonies were as good as they used to be, they played a good selection of numbers from the 60s and 70s and everybody enjoyed themselves. The Locarno, Coventry, was designed by the city architect and planning officer Arthur Ling (191395), together with Mecca's in-house architects Kett and Neve. It was owned by the Mecca Leisure Group. 63 The Builder, 24 September 1937, p. 544. The principal place of public indoor amusement in Nottingham is undoubtedly the new Palais de Danse. Easily accessible from all parts, this splendid building in Weldon stone in the Classic style forms a worthy addition to the many fine public buildings of the City. The dances performed there were the height of fashion no outdated sequence dances or polkas for Hammersmith, but foxtrots, quicksteps and the modern waltz. Anyone remember any of these bands? That was the famous and now legendary sign located above the entrance to the Nottingham Palais de Danse one of the many traditional dance hall venues owned by the Mecca Leisure group. The Hammersmith Palais de Danse, in its last years simply named Hammersmith Palais, was a dance hall and entertainment venue in Hammersmith, London, England that operated from 1919 until 2007. Only the coming of war halted the project. The Nottingham House of Correction on St Johns Street is now the modern day junction of Glasshouse Street and King Edward Street where the club sits. 26 Architectural Journal, 26 February 1930, pp. I remember Love on amountain top being a big spin too. 1821Google Scholar. The upstairs bars were decorated in a glamorous modern members club style, with buttoned leather panels and copper downlighters on the walls. In the early 90s the Palais was briefly used as a rave club. I used the title as my "handle" when CB's were big only to find out that everyone thought I was a copper just not so. They changed their name to the Mansfields in 1964. It was that popular at weekends that traction put on late night buses to get us home to all the surrounding villages, This was quite a place, I remember wanting to go there with my brother. 52 Nottingham Evening Post, 10 September 1924, p. 5. During the Second World War it was requisitioned by the Army as a dining area for the troops stationed in the town. Throughout the interwar period, leading dance bands were resident in elite nightspots: for example, Roy Fox at the Monseigneur Restaurant; Ambrose and his Orchestra at the Mayfair Hotel; and both Jack Hylton and the Savoy Orpheans at the Savoy Hotel.Footnote 15 These well-known dance venues (increasingly popularised by live outdoor broadcasts on the new BBC and by newspaper reports) offered inspiration for public dance halls of more diverse working-class origins. Is the building still there in Mansfield and if so what is it used for now? I worked at The Sherwood Rooms part time for a while, firstly as a Bingo checker then as a ballroom assistant, just standing around in evening dress being helpful a really cushy job. 45 Dancing Times (September 1929), p. 551. Just searched "The Spy" on Youtube. Will be playing both (plus some Syvie Vartan) at True Blue at the Albany Club in Coventry on 16/12/16. The dcor was a patterned backcloth, reminiscent of bubbles of water, based on Roy Lichtenstein's painting Landscape with Boat. "T, I don't know why but "Love On A Mountain Top" seemed to get something of a revival at both the Palais and the Locarno at the same time. Further interest was added by the use of modern decorative geometric cornice work on the ceiling, and a series of pink, burgundy and gold downlighters.Footnote 81 Inside the main hall, the large sprung dance floor was surrounded on all sides by a seating area with burgundy carpet and tables laid with crisp white linen.Footnote 82 The room's pastel colour scheme of pinks, pale green and gold detailing was at once feminine and luxurious. 9) featured a Canadian maple dance floor, a revolving bandstand, elegant boudoirs for ladies and stag rooms for gentlemen, a club room with lounge and bars, refreshment bars and buffets, stepped balconies with tables, an open-air dancing terrace, and a starry ceiling over the dance floor incorporating hundreds of tiny coloured lights.Footnote 51, Fig. It was just like being in the Palais in 69 again except for the white hair ( on me as well as some of the band ). Happy times at the Palais remembered by Adrian included the regular interval dash across Humberstone Gate to the Pickwick pub (Old Black Lion and Skandals). The building which housed the Horse and jockey Is still there, the stained glasswork above the door also I believe still in situ. Constructed in 195860 at a cost of 204,205, it was conceived as part of a new shopping precinct in the heart of the city (in part based on the Rows in Chester).Footnote 69 The location in a shopping precinct reflected the growing importance of consumerism in British social and economic life. Conversions were common not only in the early days of dance-hall construction (around 191823), but also in its closing days (195560). Heimann (1938). Each year from 1918 to 1965, between roughly 2000 and 3000 venues were licensed for regular dancing in Britain.Footnote 4 The number of venues in individual towns and cities could be correspondingly large. I like all of the above - except, Cobblestone is shite! Excellent he was too! Good times. Also known as Palais de Danse, The Palais Nov 16 1986 Level 42 at Palais, Nottingham, England Artist: Level 42 , Venue: Palais, Nottingham, England Edit setlist May 26 1986 5. In September 1931, the Nottingham Palais paid more than 1000 laying a new dance floor, and in October 1933 the Hammersmith Palais spent 5000 on a maple floor.Footnote 19, The installation of dance floors required consideration of several crucial issues. Adrian, who now lives in Durham, joined Ivor following a summer season at Torquay. These are well conjured in the description of a Bolton dance hall in 1938: Pausing to smooth your hair in the mirror, you go through the foyer, up more carpeted stairs. Fig. Powered by Invision Community. 28 Allen, Carl, London Gig Venues (Stroud, 2016), pp. Bandstand at the Mayfair, Newcastle, opened in 1961 (Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums), As tastes changed, dance halls took over the venues of other, declining leisure pursuits. Our first opportunity to assess the size of the queue and who we could spot. When I was an apprentice in the mid 60's one of my fellow apprentices shocked everyone by resigning to go and work at the Palais, his name was Mick Knight and eventually became the manager ! I bought myself a pair and used to change my socks in the toilet when I got there and again on the way home! 87 Richards, Jeffrey, The Age of the Dream Palace: Cinema and Society in Britain, 19301939 (London, 1984), pp. In common with many entertainment venues, dance halls were sealed off from the outside world and seldom had windows. Nothing of the brutish thug looks which so typifies the modern day equivalent. Sign up for our free weekly newsletter sent straight to your inbox. Heimann (1938). 56 The Builder, 14 November 1924, pp. Nottingham Palais paid more than laying a new dance oor, and in October the Hammersmith Palais spent on a maple oor.19 The installation of dance oors required consideration of several crucial issues. Then the Palais again, then Oceana, and currently The Palais De Dance with Jack O'Boyle. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. I love the Palais for giving me some of the best moments in my life. In fact anything outdoors ! At one end of the social scale, it emerged from the ballrooms of large country houses, elaborate hotels, restaurants and private clubs frequented by the upper-middle and upper classes. lol anyway attende every palias dayer and all the niters that followed d.jed ther in the bali hi saturday nie session i used to run in the early 80''s we used to do that then get a taxi to stafford's top of the world awesome times used to attend with mick .h ,dennis lambert , shaun turner, dave taylor ,tony garnett, the brit crowd of the day plus the colemans regulars. Fig. Affordable luxury was a key part of their attraction. Interior of the Nottingham Palais, 1925 (Nottingham City Council and picturethepast.org.uk). Munro, Malcolm, Dancing Mad: An Autobiographical Dancing Diary (Liverpool, n.d.), p. 181Google Scholar. I used to work part time evenings in the bar at the Palais during the 1960s. From the mid-1920s to the mid-1960s, the dance hall occupied a pivotal place in the culture of working- and lower-middle-class communities in Britain. We are both still alive and live in a rural area of the Wairarapa 90 minutes drive north of Wellington. http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=3+little+bears+jimi+hendrix&aq=6&oq=3+little+bears. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. While the numbers of cinemas were tallied by a well-organised industry, there was no central collation of statistics regarding the dance-hall industry. What a pair of real gents they were and full of interesting recollections of their time with the band. 34750, and University of Sussex, Mass Observation Archive [hereafter MOA], Music Dancing and Jazz [hereafter MDJ] 3/A, C.L. I know Curly is around and about, just not bumped into each other yet but I'm sure we will soon. They did not develop in a logical sequence over time, however, but responded to changing social and economic patterns. I was a regular for four years from 1976 so not quite the golden KTF period. Two records I remember from there were, Love of the common people Nikki Thomas, The latter people would sit in the floor in front of each other sitting between the person behinds, legs, and rock backward and forward and side to side. Dancing had been enjoyed socially long before the twentieth century, but after the First World War people fell in love with it as never before. Then at quarter to two, a special moment. hawarden, February 8, 2011 in 60's Nottingham. It was emmotional. The final crucial design and technical challenge of the dance hall was the bandstand. 8889Google Scholar. The warmth and thrill of dancing cheek to cheek, waist to waist, as desire and passion ebbed and flowed at three beats to the bar, and bodies clasped together while moving gracefully, ungracefully, freed from their workaday sitting and standing, now gliding, gyrating, swaying, bending and shaking together and apart. I remember Love on amountain top being a big spin too. You think I get spare time after managing this lot? After the war the building was restored to its former glory and together with its famous school of dancing, thrived for most of the next two decades until its eventual closure in 1967. 83 TWA, DT.Tur/4/AG1833/c, Mayfair Ballroom, Newcastle Powder Room (1961). Good post mate. Pasted as rich text. The dance floor was flanked, beneath the balcony, by two long areas of seating and tables, and a snack bar and lounge were located just off the main hall.Footnote 59 The decorative scheme in the hall included a central fresco of dancing maidens (possibly with reference to the city's local hero Robin Hood), which continued on the side walls. 24 Duncan, Andrew, Hammersmith's Palaces of Pleasure, Hammersmith and Fulham Historic Buildings Group Newsletter, 12 (Spring 2005), p. 4Google Scholar. Its Blackpool venue (Fig. And for 15 minutes we had the whole of the Palais de Danse to ourselves. Horse and Jockey, is it still there? 99103, and Architectural Review (June 1961), pp. In 1960, the Mecca group announced plans to invest 3 million in the industry over three years, and by 1966 it had forty-four dance halls compared to just twelve in 1951.Footnote 48 In 1961 alone, Mecca opened new purpose-built dance halls in Bradford, Newcastle upon Tyne, Hull, Basildon, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Ashton-under-Lyne and Coventry.Footnote 49 The Locarno, Bradford, which opened in September 1961, cost 550,000. I remember the Jbirds and also my late husband Johnny Gold playing there. Innovation led to a unique architectural feature the sprung dance floor. up to 2s. If I remember Monday Night was for a younger crowd and we were always trying to get in the Bali Hi downstairs. Wednesday evening and Saturday afternoon. Without this, dancing could be uncomfortable and tiring and particularly wearing on the knees and ankles. It is an odd omission, as the architecture of pleasure has generated a growing body of scholarship. As the Nottingham Evening Post remarked on its opening: With the opening of its new Palais de Danse [] Nottingham falls in line with other progressive cities.Footnote 55 Although the building became renowned for its large illuminated globe, the original exterior design was surmounted by a large statue of the Greek muse of dance, Terpsichore, in a typical dancing pose.Footnote 56 Terpsichore did appear on the exterior as built, but in a series of poses across a large frieze of contrasting darker stone (seen just below the globe in Figure 10). @ MAK - thanks for the kind words and no she was from Cotgrave :-), @ Steve Phillis- I remember you very well. Ballroom, rock N Roll you name it. Still doing cabaret. Nottingham is the queen of the Midlands. On their first trip into Nottingham he and a group of other airmen enquired where the action was. Virtually all dance halls, right up to their decline in the 1960s, used live music, which would continue through the evening practically non-stop. It was commissioned in 1924 by the Midland Palais de Danse Company, formed by several local entrepreneurs. It was founded by Carl Heimann, who in 1927 created an offshoot of the parent firm Ye Mecca Cafs. 13754CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. There were three bars, one off the dance floor and another two upstairs (itself indicative of a less paternalistic attitude to dance halls up to this point, magistrates had insisted they remain dry). Local commentators believed that the building increased the city's status. Promotional literature for the Locarno, Stevenage, 1961 (Museum Services, Stevenage, Hertfordshire), Opened in April 1925, the Nottingham Palais de Danse typifies the purpose-built dance hall from the height of the dance craze in the mid-1920s. Seen you pop up on a few of Coop's images now and again. 4 For a full discussion of the dance-hall industry, see Nott, James, Going to the Palais: A Social and Cultural History of Dancing and Dance Halls in Britain, 19181960 (Oxford, 2015)CrossRefGoogle Scholar, chapters 13. [2] It was designed by the Nottingham architectural practice of Evans, Clark and Woollatt for W. A. Walker at a cost of 30,000. Total loading time: 0.984 Each night of the week targeted a different audience. Managed to replace Johnny Ross recently, but the Malibus still elude me. It provides the first overview of dance halls from an architectural and spatial history perspective. This multi-class audience for dance halls, and the democratisation it represented, was reflected in their design and even their names. Used to go to colemans at the weekend, upstairs i think, we would just walk round and round and round, crazy. During the Second World War it was requisitioned also a Big Rob Smith spin during those days was Hank Diamond-Soul sauce, another was the Motown girlie spin: Hang on Bill-Little Lisa. Hostname: page-component-75cd96bb89-t9pvx I did like it when everyone shoved there arms up in the chorus! The Palais de Danse on Humberstone Gate, Leicester Many readers will remember The Ivor Kenney Sound, the resident band, during the 1960s and 70s, at Leicesters Palais de 39 Dancing Times, March 1928, pp. It made over three times its original capital in the first twelve months and rapidly became known both nationally and internationally. Alongside this was the growth of a highly commercialised leisure industry, which contributed to a new popular culture dominated by transatlantic trends. Adshead and completed in 1903, and the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea, constructed in 1935 to the design of Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff. Both moved on from the band around 1967 to have successful careers in business. 9 (London, 1935), pp. They were brilliant they were on more or less every three months and always went to see them. The larger of the two, the Majestic, was decorated to represent a mosque, with prayer mats hanging from the walls and a star-painted ceiling.Footnote 88 The exoticism continued in the names of the lounges the Alcazar Lounge and the Baghdad Lounge. See also Harwood, Elain, Space, Hope and Brutalism: English Architecture, 19451975 (London, 2015), p. 317Google Scholar. I'm looking for photos of "The Jay Cats" - "The Jay Birds" - Early photos of Alvin Lee, Leo Lyons, Ric Lee, Dave Quickmire - Ten Years After..this also includes any and all photos of these bands and people for use on our websites. Harry had an amazing drum kit, hand-painted with psychedelic designs. 1934), personal communication, Dundee, 11 March 2011. Started in 78/9 I guess. The constraint of the crowded dance floor, for example, demanded a constant process of negotiation. 23. Chinese motifs were repeated throughout the dance hall, particularly in the trelliswork and painted panels that replicated oriental paper screens, backlit to enhance the artwork's colours and effects.
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