As with many other aspects of the dance-hall business, the Mecca group was at the forefront of developments, most notably introducing the revolving bandstand. 1934), personal communication, Dundee, 11 March 2011. It had a small revolving circular dance floor. In common with many entertainment venues, dance halls were sealed off from the outside world and seldom had windows. 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. It's the only time I've heard LOMT played at a dayer or nighter. There were often more men than women and you had to dance by yourself. 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. Can't understand why these aren't played now, they were so BIG in '76. They may well haveappeared when they were called Ricky Storm and the Stormcats from 1962. My future wife, Sylvia Chesterman was from Alfreton and I was born in Mansfield many years ago! 82 TWA, DT.Tur/4/AG1838, Mayfair Ballroom, Newcastle Dance Floor (1961). I remember the Palais when the most popular performers were Johnny Gold & The Sovereigns and The Newtones. I thought "Statue" was great at the time, now it doesn't seem to have any soul at all. In Leicester, Nottingham, Manchester and other major towns and cities, entrepreneurs cashed in on the popularity of dance. for this article. Innovation led to a unique architectural feature the sprung dance floor. 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Brian Eno composed the soundscape. 29 Crewe Chronicle, 11 November 1961, p. 6. The movement was inspired by Cunninghams childhood game of skimming stones over a pond. The new bandstand at the Ilford Palais in 1959 had a large painted backdrop depicting an Italianate garden, with fountains, cypress trees and urns, and three metal arches placed in front of it.Footnote 90 At the Leeds Locarno in 1964, two giant screens on either side of the bandstand projected similar images in full colour in order to evoke mood.Footnote 91 Ilford Palais even had a Tudor Room, with mock beams and accessories. Privacy Statement - opens in a new window, Community website is a hit in Mansfield and overseas, December 2005 - A Happy Event in Forest Town Welfare, The Hippodrome / Century / Granada Bingo - Midworth Street Mansfield. 9. 6465Google Scholar. 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. My name may be published alongside the comment on the website, but my e-mail address will not be published. The Chinese theme reached a climax at the centre of the dance floor, where a model mountain was created, complete with replica village and fountain. Special thanks to Dr Julian Holder whose sterling work in editing improved this piece immeasurably. 13).Footnote 70 The sense of theatricality was enhanced by the entrance to the main dance hall being reached via a glass-sided covered air bridge, two stories above ground level, which linked the tower with the main building above the shops. 52 Nottingham Evening Post, 10 September 1924, p. 5. As we got a little older we would brave the Crystal Palace pub and buy our pints of bitter shandy, to give us a little more courage to maybe actually chat the young ladies up! We had to pack up dancing in our mid seventies due to both having arthnritis we really missed it after all those 50 odd years of dancing. And heres a modern simulation of what the looked and sounded like in those days? 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). See also Harwood, Elain, Space, Hope and Brutalism: English Architecture, 19451975 (London, 2015), p. 317Google Scholar. Up at the front of the queue there was my dad, resplendent in his suit and bow tie, hair neatly combed looking every inch the Dapper Dan and ladies man giving me a wave to come forward. 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. For example, at Tony's Ballroom in Birmingham, in the mid-1930s, there were two halls with sumptuous interiors on an Eastern theme. Lita Rosa, Dennis Lotus ans Dicky Valentine sang with the band. Heimann (1938). 199204Google Scholar. Consumerism expanded, with home ownership among manual workers reaching 40 per cent by 1962.Footnote 80 The architecture of the dance hall reflected this further democratisation of pleasure, the new centrality of the working class to national life, and a new version of modernity. Then at quarter to two, a special moment. Personally, one of my fave records from the Palais dayers was Toni Basil's "Breakaway". Nottingham is the queen of the Midlands. Adrian recalled during his time with Ivor the band also included Joe and Fred on saxophones and Bill on the trumpet. 77 Smith, H. Llewellyn, ed., New Survey of London Life and Labour, vol. 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. 90 Ilford Pictorial and Guardian, 10 December 1959, p. 17. Gail and Jackie Searcy, Dave and Kev Husbands, Pete and Chris Smith, Tommy Cragg, Andy Cannon, Colin Shipstone, Mick Hancock, Tony Allen, Martin Green, Curly, Podgy (Simon Hodgkinson??) Guys From Uncle "The Spy". Fig. You've brought even more memories flooding back with the CB thing. In fact anything outdoors ! 509-511 Alfreton Road Skyy Bar 511a Alfreton Road Stork Club (2) Blueprint Club Bluecote Street The Junction Bottle Lane Arriba (1) Nick Palmer Paul McKenzie 45 Bridlesmith Gate Le Gourmet The Hippo Alex Smith Pat Petal Petal Mr Millers Nick Palmer Camelot Howard Cooper The Hippo (1993 ?) Yep, a lot of those records later released on Grapevine and Destiny, Lover - Delites, She Said Goodbye - Billy Hambric, "Palais Stomp" The Champion will always remind me of Notts. Fig. 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. I dont live in the town. Common locations were town halls, assembly rooms and church halls, but public dances were also held frequently in swimming baths, department stores, political clubs, hotels and restaurants. 96 See Nott, J., Contesting Popular Dancing and Dance Music During the 1920s, Cultural and Social History, 10.3 (2013), pp. Enid Coleman went ape and had the music. I didn't even recognise them until Jarv sayed hello to them. Particularly common in the 1920s were conversions of former roller-skating rinks, which were ideal, given their large dimensions and height. 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. 11. "At the time, Val was the top entertainment personality in the UK and my first concert with him, straight from the Palais, was at the London Palladium, starting a 16-week gig there.. It was the regular venue for the South Nottinghamshire Hunt Ball, the Robin Hood Ball, the local Conservative Party Ball and various large company dances, all of which attracted local dignitaries and leading businessmen. I remember a ex boxer guy the used to get a skipping rope out on the upstairs dance floor. 43956CrossRefGoogle Scholar. He said: I dont recall a specific male vocalist, but keyboard player Ivor and lead guitarist Will did some singing. [1], It reopened as the Astoria Ballroom after the Second World War on 29 March 1948. 51 Details provided by Museum Services, Stevenage, Hertfordshire. Interests! Any reccomends? I remember the music being so loud, it would have been the early seventies, Many happy memories of the palais,Ted Heath did not play there,but the place for big bands was Festival Hall Kirkby, Many big bands played there admission 3/6d to 5 shillings.Ted Heath I paid 7/6d a very lot of money in those days. Heimann (1938). . 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. 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. 67 See Roma Fairley, Come Dancing Miss World (London, 1966), and more generally Esher, Lionel, A Broken Wave: The Rebuilding of England 19401980 (London, 1981)Google Scholar. This crowd was going to get bigger as the day progressed. and Long Row, resided Plains Row Nottm. 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. Yes Colemans was a big oblong room with seats round the outside. Grayman45 This multi-class audience for dance halls, and the democratisation it represented, was reflected in their design and even their names. [2] It was designed by the Nottingham architectural practice of Evans, Clark and Woollatt for W. A. Walker at a cost of 30,000. "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. Personally, one of my fave records from the Palais dayers was Toni Basil's "Beakaway". no doubt. The architects were Thraves and Dawson.Footnote 53 Nottingham-based Alfred J. Thraves (18881953) became a prominent architect in the East Midlands area and designed several high-profile buildings in Nottingham, including the City Mission, although he originally made his name as a designer of chapels. 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. I believe he was a big pusher of that particular tune. The designs also included a health centre, squash courts, gym and rooftop gardens. Later, in the 1950s, large numbers of redundant cinemas and theatres were converted into dance halls, as dancing outperformed both as a form of entertainment. One thing I noticed was a couple of ex chart Northern sounds that had been re-activated and played to a packed dance floor. 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. Previously, a change of band involved halting the dancing while equipment, instruments and players were moved on and off the stage. Probably our most regular gig was the New Cross Inn, Sutton. Nottstalgia Nottingham Forums 54 Brodie, Antonia, ed., Directory of British Architects 18341914, 2 vols (2001), II, p. 809Google Scholar, and Nottingham Civic Society, Draft List of Local Heritage Assets of the City of Nottingham, 9 December 2013. The faade of the main dance hall was given a canopy edged in slate to match the surrounding buildings, while the rest consisted of red and grey dark-brick panels separated with recessed blind windows of brightly coloured glass mosaic, bordered above and below with fascias of Sicilian white marble.Footnote 71 The mosaic was the work of Fred Millett (192080), a mural artist with an extensive portfolio in both the public and private sectors, having worked on commissions for London County Council, Hertfordshire schools, the Post Office and National Westminster Bank.Footnote 72 The dance hall's internal illumination included strip lighting around the edge of the balcony and bandstand, interspersed with frequent use of sputnik-like spotlights in the contemporary style. 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. You've Got To Love Your Baby - Millionaires, Funnily enough I did a small piece on the Palais for my SouledOn Soul Facebook page a few days ago A lot of emmotional connections with that place for reasons you'll see below I featured on a few backing vocals too until someone actually heard me!. More Info Running Horse 202-204 Alfreton Road Conrads Chopins 509-511 Alfreton Road Skyy Bar 511a Alfreton Road Stork Club (2) Blueprint Adrian, who now lives in Durham, joined Ivor following a summer season at Torquay. The Palais de Danse, Nottingham. 69 Architect and Building News, 19 July 1961, pp. And with every step forward the laughing and shouting of teenagers in baggy trousers and circle skirts filling the empty air, the excitement building. The dance hall's world of luxury and escape was fully in tune with the new consumerism. No booze was sold there in there in those days, just coffees, tea and soft drinks in the wee Cafs: - Cupid's Bar Ballroom, rock N Roll you name it. 9298. At one stage Mike Knight, the manager of the Palais for as long as I could remember shoved a microphone under my nose and asked me a few questions but I couldn't answer them, I was far too shy and embarrassed. The one at the Mayfair in Newcastle, which opened in 1961 (Fig. Very special memories of the old place including the performers and of course themusic! During the late 1980s the Palais de Danse reinvented itself as a popular nightclub venue. In Liverpool, for example, the Grafton Ballroom (opened in 1924) was designed by Alfred Ernest Shennan (18881959), whose output in the Merseyside area included cinemas, hotels, banks and office blocks in a signature Art Deco style, together with a synagogue distinct in its Swedish-inflected functionalism.Footnote 41 The architect commissioned to design the Palais de Danse in Croydon (also built in 1924) was Hume Victor Kerr (b. Feature Flags: { Is the building still there in Mansfield and if so what is it used for now? Ocean is a nightclub located on Greyfriar Gate in Nottingham, England. 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. Great tune. No Sunday shopping throngs back then, just a feeling of having the city to ourselves. Those in the mill towns of Lancashire, for example, attempted to recreate some of the splendour of the Blackpool ballrooms.Footnote 17 Entrepreneurs were also inspired by the cavernous dance halls that had emerged in the United States before the First World War such as the one in Pawtuxet, Rhode Island (Fig. It was emmotional. To keep his head above water he took on a job as a doorman at the Palais in his spare time, a job which he held from about 1968 to 1980ish. No other public space offered the chance to display such a wide range of movement for so many people. They also said they played the Palais regularly amongst many local and national venues. 92 MOA, WC, 48/C, 1938, p. 1. Harry had an amazing drum kit, hand-painted with psychedelic designs. The main dance hall with a floor of 105 feet (32m) by 85 feet (26m) which accommodated 600 dancers. Excellent he was too! By Finally Hockley was left behind and the Palais loomed into view in all her magnificence and glory. Cliff Bennett is very much alive and well and performed in Nottingham's Old Market Square at the Nottingham Pulse festival last summer. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account. 58 See photographs of the interior at picturethepast.org.uk (accessed on 31 May 2018). To see what we've already added, just go to google search and type in "Pre Ten Years After" that should get you to the exact page. Am in touch with Kev Husbands via Facebook. I had a great time at the Palais. Fig. From the mid-1920s until the mid-1960s, the dance hall occupied a pivotal place in the culture of working- and lower-middle-class communities in Britain. Used to have aquick drink in the Horse & Jockey just across the road back in those days., as did many Palais-De-Dance fans. 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. Its emergence and popularity following the First World War reflected improvements in the social and economic well-being of the working and lower-middle classes. Munro, Malcolm, Dancing Mad: An Autobiographical Dancing Diary (Liverpool, n.d.), p. 181Google Scholar. 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. "useRatesEcommerce": false Learnt to jive there! Elvis Presley Fans Dance On A Traffic Island Outside The Palais De Danse Hall in Nottingham. 21 See Walton, Blackpool Tower, pp. The dance hall was a symbol of social, cultural and political change. 3 Paul Holt, Daily Express, 16 November 1938, p. 16, and Economist, 14 February 1953, p. 401. Many readers will remember The Ivor Kenney Sound, the resident band, during the 1960s and 70s, at Leicesters Palais de Danse. The crowd walked round the outside of the dancefloor. Such features were not unique to Newcastle. Patrons of different classes were often segregated by temporal and spatial means. There was a good crowd in and we had a really great night. Are nurses striking in Leicestershire this week? Die I Am Tour von Beyonc begann am 26. Even got "Paper Lace" - Billy don't be a hero & The night Chicago died.What happened to them I wonder? The Palais was an enormous dance hall, capacity probably 3000, oblong in shape, with a surrounding balcony, where we would sit, eye up the talent, spot someone you fancied and make a beeline downstairs to get them up to dance. Not only the dance music, but also people talking, laughing, whispering and of course dancing all created a unique soundscape. Frontage of the Nottingham Palais, showing its illuminated globe, 1925 (Nottingham City Council and picturethepast.org.uk), The principal faade was a barely resolved hybrid of modernity and tradition typical of commercial architecture of the period, a bid to be seen as both democratic and respectable. On 14/05/2012 at 23:07, Grayman45 said: On 26/05/2012 at 20:35, MartynJJ said: also a Big Rob Smith spin during those days was. London, The National Archives, BT 31/24605/155007, Hammersmith Palais de Danse (191932). The entire floor thus rested on steel springs, with no dead point anywhere. 97 See Nott, Contesting, and MOA, MDJ: 5/F, Alfred Clarke, Empress Hall, Bolton, 1938, p. 8. Promoting its opening night in 1925, for example, the Nottingham Palais drew attention to its luxurious lounges with settees and gold chairs, and its refinement in serving dainty teas.Footnote 79 Uniformed attendants, smart waiting staff and an attention to service all added to the creation of an atmosphere previously reserved for those in higher levels of society. I have a long and fond relationship with the old Notts Palais. I love the Palais for giving me some of the best moments in my life. Has data issue: true We would always aim to get in the queue early and watch it build as worshipers from all over arrived. Clear editor. Considerable sections of the rest of this article are also informed by interviews conducted by the author between June 2009 and September 2014 in Liverpool, Glasgow, Dundee and Crewe. We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Especially in new buildings, which were liable to be damp on completion, room had to be left around the floor to allow the wood to swell. The Jubilee Hall, which was the Co-op, and the Corporation Hall. 50 Lawrence, David, Always a Welcome: The Glove Compartment History of the Motorway Service Area (London, 1999), pp. The swish of taffeta as couples progressed around the dance floor, the warm melodic sounds of a saxophone, the chatter of friends and partners, the sparkle of mirror balls, spotlights, multi-coloured lightbeams, and the faint whiff of Lily of the Valley or Midnight in Paris. 60 Nottingham Evening Post, 9 February 1929, p. 5. Part of a vastly expanded leisure industry whose growth was reliant on the greater availability of time and money, the dance hall depended on the spending power of the masses. Your first impression is of the red glow of the room red walls, predominantly red carpets, orange and red lights [] The room is crowded. 91 Yorkshire Evening Post, 21 July 1964, p. 7. 8889Google Scholar. I do have a strong memory of seeing Jimmy James & The Vagabonds at The Palais. 89 Dancing Times (October 1931), pp. Had some good nights at the old Palais as a teenager in the early sixties, probably the most memorable being the appearance/s of the then, Shane Fenton, (later to become Alvin Stardust), sadly no longer with us. Local commentators believed that the building increased the city's status. It provides the first overview of dance halls from an architectural and spatial history perspective. 40 Modern Dance and Dancer (March 1938), p. 13, and Munro, Dancing Mad. I remember the Jbirds and also my late husband Johnny Gold playing there. May 14, 2012 In I used to work part time evenings in the bar at the Palais during the 1960s. 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