Then at quarter to two, a special moment. your own Pins on Pinterest @ MAK - thanks for the kind words and no she was from Cotgrave :-), @ Steve Phillis- I remember you very well. Fantastic to go to an all nighter on the Saturday and straight to the Palais for another 12 hours of dancing on the Sunday, just cos we could. Has data issue: true The building opened as a palais de danse to replace Victoria Halls in Talbot Street. During the 1920s and 1930s, advertisements emphasised the luxurious nature of the dance-hall experience. But my relationship with this venerable Nottingham landmark started much earlier in my life and carries much more emotional attachment than simply being a placed where we danced our youth away to great dollops of soulful tunes and partaking of a chicken in a basket meal if we saved enough pennies to purchase grub in the restaurant downstairs. Frank Hanford used to run it but Dorothy Richards I never saw. The site became vacant when Nottingham Prison was demolished. Our paths must have crossed mate another name from your list I remember Martin Green not seen him for years, Andy Cannon what a starr,yes Tom's living in Clifton now last time I saw him he seemed quite well, funny thing you mentioned about Chris & Forest one time he'd just got back from Anfield me & Tom Cragg dragged him too Stafford for a nighter great days. I love the Palais for introducing me to the first girl who would ever break my heart and putting me off rum for life. The co-director of the Mecca chain Carl Heimann claimed that, unlike the theatre or music hall with their separate entrances and seating arrangements, dance halls were a place where class distinctions disappeared: In the dance hall there is no differentiation between the patrons they are all on the same floor level, all pay the same price of admission; there is no class distinction whatsoever; complete freedom of speech for all and sundry.Footnote 78. 10. They changed their name ten years after they started. Clear editor. The two I remember most at both the Palais and Coleman's were the Malibus - Gee Baby (I Love You), and Johnny Ross and the Soul Explosions' version of I can't Help Myself - a 200mph belter. 63 The Builder, 24 September 1937, p. 544. The Locarno, Streatham, designed by Trehearne and Norman, Preston and Company, opened with much press interest in September 1929.Footnote 44 Advertised as England's Super Dance Hall, it cost 60,000, with 10,000 spent on the ventilation system alone.Footnote 45 Kerr's Palais de Danse in Croydon was similar in scale and ambition. 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. Also, will accept photos of the venues where they played. I started going in spring 1980. Facing the stairs is a lounge, with settees, wicker chairs, glass topped tables. Should be a fantastic read so look out for it. The dance hall was a symbol of social, cultural and political change. Nottstalgia Nottingham Forums Keith also told me that Ric Lee is writing a book and once some legal wrangles are sorted it should be published under the title From head stocks to Woodstock. 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. 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. no doubt. 91 Yorkshire Evening Post, 21 July 1964, p. 7. London, The National Archives, BT 31/24605/155007, Hammersmith Palais de Danse (191932). The budget was large and the quality of the building located on a prime corner site adjacent to the city's busy central market area (Fig. 12 French, Hilary, Glamorous Spaces: Public Ballrooms and Dance Halls, 18901950, Interiors, 6.1 (2015), pp. I love the Palais for some of the most endearing and enduring friendships I have ever made. 9 (London, 1935), pp. Paste as plain text instead, 11 See Atwell, David, Cathedrals of the Movies (London, 1981)Google Scholar; Eyles, Allen, ABC: The First Name in Entertainment (London, 1993)Google Scholar; Gaumont British Cinemas (London, 1996)Google Scholar; The Granada Theatres (London, 1998)Google Scholar; Odeon Cinemas 1 (London, 2002)Google Scholar; Gray, Richard, Cinemas in Britain: One Hundred Years of Cinema Architecture (London, 2011)Google Scholar; Harwood, Elain, Picture Palaces (London, 1999)Google Scholar. The one who lived down Colwick was still doing a solo turn in pubs and clubs, a couple of the others still toured as "Paper Lace" and did an absolutely brilliant version of "The Sabre Dance". In common with many entertainment venues, dance halls were sealed off from the outside world and seldom had windows. As an employee we were not allowed to go there socially so it was off to Coleman's on our nights off or usually Sunday nights I think. anyway back to Colemans, we would meet at the pub round the corner, turned into a amusment arcade. Sign up for our free weekly newsletter sent straight to your inbox. My future wife, Sylvia Chesterman was from Alfreton and I was born in Mansfield many years ago! Special thanks to Dr Julian Holder whose sterling work in editing improved this piece immeasurably. In November 1929, the Stage Guild held its annual ball at the palais, with guests including Prince Paul of Greece.Footnote 61 A generation earlier, such events would have been held exclusively in country houses, private clubs, grand assembly rooms or private ballrooms. 11) was characterised by the eclectic deployment of neoclassical, Art Deco, oriental and even Pre-Raphaelite motifs.Footnote 58 At the centre of the dance floor was an illuminated fountain, which could rise to 12ft, surrounded by plants. 55 Nottingham Evening Post, 25 April 1925, p. 5. . Very interesting to read, I knew Freddie and Adela as uncle and aunt, great close friends, father Tug was on police duty with Gordon Ingham of the Forest Town undertakers, father met mum, and as they say its history, Adela married twice, Cyril Palmer visited Adela in her final weeks. Personally, one of my fave records from the Palais dayers was Toni Basil's "Beakaway". One of my mates actually hit it off with a young lady and did eventually marry her and still was, up to a couple of years ago. Yet there was a tension between this liberation and constraint. 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. The band members were Keith Williams (guitar), Stuart Lane (guitar), Mick Hodgkinson (bass guitar & sax) and Ric Lee (drums). Beginning as a practical necessity of separating the musicians from the dancers, the bandstand developed into a distinctive architectural feature. And another one on my list! 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. Last saw Pete and Chris about 8 years ago coming out from Forest. 6465Google Scholar. Celestial effects were common, with thousands of bulbs creating ceilings full of sparkling stars. Wendy Northern Soul Cinema Theatre Vaudeville Theatres Auditorium Courtesy Opera House An Article from arthurlloyd.co.uk. With a revolving bandstand, a second band could set up in the background while the first was still performing and be brought to the audience at the press of a switch. Nostalgia, and heaps of great memories for me. 3738Google Scholar. Ling was also concerned to bring a more human scale to the redesign of Coventry, revising the use of large open spaces and grand vistas by the previous city planner, Donald Gibson. Patrons of different classes were often segregated by temporal and spatial means. And what about Lainie Hill "Time Marches On". 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. 79, 85. Elaborate neon lighting at the Hammersmith Palais, early 1960s, As the dance craze of the 1920s expanded, purpose-built dance halls proliferated. 17).Footnote 83 The rococo-style mirrors had lights above with tasselled fabric lampshades, and sconces in between. It was the Mansfields who were the band during the competition. One of the first was introduced at Mecca's flagship hall, the Locarno in Streatham, south London, in 1931.Footnote 26 Its purpose was twofold. The palatial references of the architecture corresponded with the term adopted for the modern dance hall, palais de danse (literally palace of dance), which reflects the marketing strategy that made affordable luxury a key part of the attraction. I really liked Tommy a lot. Originally named the Palais de Danse when it opened as a dance hall in 1925, it later became the Ritzy in the late 1980s, then the Palais again, Oceana, and then Pryzm. It was the first palais de danse [nb 1] to be built in Britain. Used to be a group around at that time called the "Jaybirds." Nottingham is the queen of the Midlands. During the Second World War it was requisitioned by the Army as a dining area for the troops stationed in the town. Alongside this was the growth of a highly commercialised leisure industry, which contributed to a new popular culture dominated by transatlantic trends. In the 1920s, the class profile of the Nottingham Palais varied from day to day, as private functions closed the hall to the general public and attracted a more specialised, usually middle-class audience. Yes its still there and think its used as a theatre now. Enid Coleman went ape and had the music. My name is real and feel free to contact me with any information. This crowd was going to get bigger as the day progressed. One of the first to be installed in Britain was in the Tower Ballroom, Blackpool, in 1899.Footnote 21 Sprung floors made dancing less tiring and wearing, as they bounced gently with the movement of dancers, rather than resisting them. 60 Nottingham Evening Post, 9 February 1929, p. 5. 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. Henry Holmes Dawson (18771964) seemingly worked with Thraves only on the palais, as he was in a London-based partnership with H.W. Now reside in Norwich,Mansfield visit to see family every 6/8weeks Ron Brown. Die I Am Tour von Beyonc begann am 26. 15. Managed to replace Johnny Ross recently, but the Malibus still elude me. 7. hasContentIssue true, CONVERSIONS AND THE BEGINNINGS OF THE DANCE HALL, DANCE HALLS AND THE MULTI-PURPOSE COMPLEX, Copyright The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain 2018. 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. A waft of hot air, the rhythmic throb of the band, the hiss of feet on the ballroom floor assail you. The largest entertainment venue in Europe at the time, it included an ABC cinema with over 800 seats, a Locarno ballroom, a Silver Blades ice-skating rink, a casino and several licensed bars, all served by a large multi-storey car park. Average weekly earnings for industrial workers grew by 34 per cent between 1955 and 1960, and by 130 per cent between 1955 and 1969. At no time before had so many people danced so regularly and attracted so much contemporary interest and debate. Then I received a call to join Val Doonicans backing band, the John Currie Quartet, full-time. Fig. 51 Details provided by Museum Services, Stevenage, Hertfordshire. 33 Liverpool dance-hall owner Malcolm Munro suggests that the first palais de danse in Britain was opened in Liverpool in 1913. "The bouncers used to bet us we would miss the change over but, thankfully, we always made it back on stage in time. Between 1914 and 1938, the average working week fell from 54 to 48 hours. Remnants of this approach to atmospherics could be seen in some dance halls as late as the 1950s and 1960s, despite the more functional Contemporary style taking its place. 4145CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Regular contributor, Michael Clarke, caught up with Adrian Tilbrook, who was the bands drummer at the Humberstone Gate Mecca dance hall in 1968-69. Meanwhile, sitters out and balcony watchers (always a significant proportion of the dance-hall crowd) provided a constant background accompaniment with their gossip, horseplay and chatter.Footnote 95, Movement, another key sensory experience of the dance hall, was vital to the liberty and freedom it symbolised. Naturally he played his big hits such as 'I'll go where the music takes me' but we also got 'This heart of mine' and a favourite of mine from school days 'A man like you'. Is the building still there in Mansfield and if so what is it used for now? See also Ward, Colin and Hardy, Dennis, Goodnight campers! 16. The dance hall's emergence as a distinct social and architectural space was shaped by its varied roots in both the social world of the elite and the growing leisure industry of late nineteenth-century Britain. Cannot remember Ted Heath playing at the Palais in MansfieldHe did perform at Welbeck Abbey in the summer of 1951. 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. 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. May 14, 2012 In The hundreds of permanent dance halls in operation in Britain between 1918 and 1965 represented a significant expansion of the leisure industry in an age of growing mass entertainment. 82 TWA, DT.Tur/4/AG1838, Mayfair Ballroom, Newcastle Dance Floor (1961). New dances were formulated to accompany the new music and were deliberately designed for couples (most notably the foxtrot). I love the Palais for giving me some of the best moments in my life. for this article. Keith replaced Ric Lee on drums after he moved on to greater fame and fortune. I don't actually remember it being played. No booze was sold there in there in those days, just coffees, tea and soft drinks in the wee Cafs: - Cupid's Bar In fact anything outdoors ! Cliff Bennett is very much alive and well and performed in Nottingham's Old Market Square at the Nottingham Pulse festival last summer. Used to go to colemans at the weekend, upstairs i think, we would just walk round and round and round, crazy. I was drummer for a Kirkby based group called Roy Ravelle & The Gamblers. I think nowadays its called The late lounge possibly. Jewellers began using palladium in 1939 as a platinum alternative when creating white gold. Sequence dances, where everyone performed the same steps, gave way to dances formulated specifically for couples, which involved much greater physical contact between partners the Bunny Hug and the Grizzly Bear, for example, required dancers to embrace. 75 Stone, Richard and Rowe, D.A., The Measurement of Consumers Expenditure and Behaviour in the United Kingdom, 19201938: Volume II (Cambridge, 1966)Google Scholar. Where have all those 1960s bands gone? We also played the Festival Hall, Kirkby as well as many pubs and clubs in the area. Most ballrooms included balconies around the main dance floor where patrons could promenade and watch the proceedings below, while allowing the considerable airflow required for what could be a strenuous activity. That was huge for a while at the Palais until it went, as we would term today "Viral". "Their organist was Graham Elliott, who I used to practise jazz with during the daytime in the large, empty Palais hall.. I had a great time at the Palais. I have 100's of sixties music on my iPod and listen to those memories as I drive around on the tractor. By On Sunday 25th March 2018 I was at a surprise birthday party for my cousin, Keith Woodcock. They also said they played the Palais regularly amongst many local and national venues. We worked and lived in Wellington until 1992 when we moved to the Wairarapa Region and celebratedour 54th wedding anniversary this year! Can't understand why these aren't played now, they were so BIG in '76. Ocean is a nightclub located on Greyfriar Gate in Nottingham, England. The origins of public dancing may be traced to the Victorian era and to the proliferation of new municipal halls, assembly rooms and church halls symbols of the spirit of philanthropy and of civic pride given legislative power by the Local Government Act of 1888. This ballroom dancing hall had an unusual dance floor created from oak and walnut mounted on 560 spiral springs, an area of 6309 superficial feet which could hold approximately 600 dancers. Keith Woodcock from Edgehill Grove M/W now lives in Sheringham after a very successful career in the music business. He added: And then running back just in time to change into awful, long brocade jackets and start the change over with Mike Millers trio and us simultaneously playing The Rise and Fall of Flingel Bunt aboard the revolving stage. Elvis Presley Fans Dance On A Traffic Island Outside The Palais De Danse Hall in Nottingham. The liberation of movement offered by the new social dances of the early twentieth century was central to their terrific popularity. One record that stands out for me at the Palais is Lester Tipton, this won't change. Expert opinion eventually settled on Canadian maple as the best timber for dance floors because, although expensive, it was found to be particularly hardwearing, making it ideal for the high demands that dancers would place on it. } Dance Halls in Nottingham Other Dance Halls in Nottingham LINK TO PALAIS DE DANCE SHERWOOD ROOMS ASTORIA Victoria Ballroom - became the Locarno St Anns Well Rd Good post mate. All three of them had great memories of their times with the band with Stuart telling me that as my cousin was only 14 when they invited him to join, they had to persuade my aunt and uncle to let him join up and that they as worldly-wise 18 year olds would look after him! Enhancing the escapism of the dance hall were the crucial sensory pleasures it provided. Hi Bill North yes remember Sons and Lovers 1969. In later years it was Yates wine lodge for a couple of so called "Australian white wines" you could chat anyone up with a few of them inside you :-)). Hintergrund. 64 The Builder, 14 December 1934, p. 1035. Smithford Way, on which the Locarno was located, was pedestrianised and multi-storey car parks were constructed close by. 4. Nottingham, Family, 1 Dundee Evening Telegraph, 7 January 1919, p. 7. 12. 79 Nottingham Evening Post, 11 April 1925, p. 3. We reverted back to the name Our Young. Conversions were common not only in the early days of dance-hall construction (around 191823), but also in its closing days (195560). 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 ). 99104. 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. Juni 2009 in London, Grobritannien.Am 21. 12), opened in 1965, included a Locarno, a bowling alley (run by Mecca's onetime rival Top Rank), an additional modern music dance floor (the Highland Room), several bars, snooker halls and even a gym.Footnote 68, Fig. In the 1920s, borrowing from US cinema designs, atmospherics was widely used to create escapism in the dance hall.Footnote 87 This design trend was about bringing the outside inside, with interiors made to resemble Spanish patios or Italian villa gardens (as seen in the Spanish Hall at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool, and the Italianate lake backdrop on the main stage in the Tower Ballroom). Good times. Adrian recalled during his time with Ivor the band also included Joe and Fred on saxophones and Bill on the trumpet. Richard Kemp, Alan Bakewell.no doubt there's a few more I've forgotten. My lass went a few times late seventies early eighties. Horse and Jockey, is it still there? 43956CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Grayman45 They did not develop in a logical sequence over time, however, but responded to changing social and economic patterns. Both moved on from the band around 1967 to have successful careers in business. Learnt to jive there! My hometown regular all dayer venue it's the place where the first Sunday in very month we would go and offer worship and praise to the great god Northern Soul. 18 The expression palais de danse was introduced by the owners to add an air of French sophistication and subsequently came into common usage in Britain. 6 City of Birmingham Archives, PS/B 4/1/1/4, Nineteenth Annual Report of the Public Entertainments Committee of Justices (1936), and Glasgow City Archives [hereafter GCA], E 7/4/1, Registers of Music Halls etc, 193452. Hopefully see you sooner rather than later. At the bottom of the sheet it mentions INSIST ON A UNION BAND FOR YOUR DANCES! 48 Daily Mirror, 12 February 1960, p. 23. Hale, Matthew The buildings that enabled this new aspect of social life transported patrons into luxurious, glamorous dream worlds of escape, and fulfilled a wide range of important social functions. Still see Kempy and Gail on a regular basis. 1) which, designed for mass audiences, reflected the increasing leisure time and money available to large sections of the working class. Last heard Gee Baby at Warwick Soul Club;I'd asked the DJ if he'd got it, and he said "not here", but went home to get it between sets, Took my Johnny Ross to the Night Owl in Brum last weekend for their 1st Anniversary, and after MUCH nagging they finally played it at 3:15 in the morning. Am in touch with Kev Husbands via Facebook. The Tottenham Palais, which opened in 1925, was converted from a roller-skating rink built in 1910.Footnote 28 Sometimes the two businesses operated side by side, as in the Cricklewood dance hall and skating rink, northwest London, in the 1920s (Fig. In the 1970s the main front was rebuilt. Subsidiary facilities included a large restaurant located off the main space and a caf surrounding the dance floor, together with a separate ice cream soda bar.Footnote 46. Affordable luxury was a key part of their attraction. Then the Palais again, then Oceana, and currently 95 MOA, WC, 48/C, Observations of Saturday Night, 3 April 1937, pp. 6d., indicates that dance organisers and commercial dance halls were aiming at a working-class audience. Even Sam played it at the Locarno on more than one occasion. Adrian Tilbrook was drummer for The Ivor Kenney Sound at Leicester's Palais de Danse in 1968-69, Mike Miller in the days when he used to perform at the Palais de Danse in Leicester's Humberstone Gate, A recent photo of drummer Adrian Tilbrook who played with The Ivor Kenney Sound at Leicester's Palais de Danse in 1968-69. 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. Previously, a change of band involved halting the dancing while equipment, instruments and players were moved on and off the stage. 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. Lita Rosa, Dennis Lotus ans Dicky Valentine sang with the band.
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