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It was soon appreciated that boards should be laid in the direction of travel of the dancers as they progressed around the dance floor in a circular fashion. Richard Kemp, Alan Bakewell.no doubt there's a few more I've forgotten. I do have a strong memory of seeing Jimmy James & The Vagabonds at The Palais. never missed a soul do there, from feb 78, until 83 (then the bank hol sunday nights , late 90's). The way in which the space was used also differed according to class. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Your email address will not be published. I am friends with Ric Lee my friend and I have a Tribute Website to Ten Years After Ten-Years-After.com and Alvinlee.de I would like to hear stories about pre Ten Years After. Because of my dad's work he would have access to us on Sundays so we only ever really got to see him once a week. 23. In fact anything outdoors ! Sound system was dodgy and times, but the tunes were still good. It was originally designed as a dance hall Paste as plain text instead, They also said they played the Palais regularly amongst many local and national venues. I heard he had some problems after dropping off the scene. There was a good crowd in and we had a really great night. A few years later Ric Lee joined the well known rock band Ten years After and actually played at the world famous Woodstock festival. 86 MOA, Worktown (WC), 48/C, Shall We Dance?, 1938, p. 3. Extremely ambitious lighting schemes began to be deployed in the late 1950s, led by the Mecca group. 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. I worked at the Palais for many years. My dad was always smartly dressed and I use to love watching him getting ready for work complete with his bow tie and liberal spraying of Cossack for Men hairspray (it was the early 70's ffs). 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 Hostname: page-component-75cd96bb89-t9pvx The outside is distinguished by the large ornate globe above the entrance and in the early days, music was often broadcast on the radio from the venue. 42 The Builder, 8 March 1929, pp. One thing I noticed was a couple of ex chart Northern sounds that had been re-activated and played to a packed dance floor. 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. Last saw Pete and Chris about 8 years ago coming out from Forest. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. I didn't even recognise them until Jarv sayed hello to them. BTW is M Raynor any relation to Beryl Raynor who I worked with at Ladybrook Primary School in 1961? 53 The Builder, 14 November 1924, p. 759. By 69 Architect and Building News, 19 July 1961, pp. Palladium was discovered in 1802 by William Hyde Wollaston but the discovery was surrounded in controversy, with other scientists claiming palladium was simply a platinum alloy and not a new element. 1021Google Scholar. The History of the British Holiday Camp, A Broken Wave: The Rebuilding of England 19401980, Coventry: The Making of a Modern City 193973, Workers at Play: A Social and Economic History of Leisure 19181939, The Measurement of Consumers Expenditure and Behaviour in the United Kingdom, 19201938: Volume II, into another kind of life in which anything might happen Popular Music and Late Modernity, 19101930, CLH says The Collected Observations, Instructions and Philosophies of C.L. 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. It was in the underground ballroom at the Welbeck Abbey. Camping, fishing, travel, photography, boating, sailing, motorbikes. Got P**d off with meeting Paper Lace.our chargehand 'slothead' at bell fruit was the drummers dadso they were always being pushed on us. 90 Ilford Pictorial and Guardian, 10 December 1959, p. 17. Architects enjoyed the possibilities such spaces provided. Interior of the Nottingham Palais, 1925 (Nottingham City Council and picturethepast.org.uk). [2] It was designed by the Nottingham architectural practice of Evans, Clark and Woollatt for W. A. Walker at a cost of 30,000. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings. Now in those days doormen weren't the breed they are today. 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. 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. Painting, woodwork, fishing, beer, food, Thinking outside the box, talking, some history, d.i.y., Amateur Dramatics; Writing; Reading; Music, Fishing; Art. Keith replaced Ric Lee on drums after he moved on to greater fame and fortune. Often went there for a couple of beers before going over the road to the Palais. My mum and my dad separated when I was about 6 years old. Even Sam played it at the Locarno on more than one occasion. 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. He remembered the bands female lead singer, Pandora, was married to the Palaiss manager. 16). 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. My first encounter with the Palais came about 1971. 8), constructed at the expense of local businessman Thomas Bolton in 1928, is a striking example of how dance-hall frontages could make eye-catching statements on street corners. 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. Regular contributor, Michael Clarke, caught up with Adrian Tilbrook, who was the bands drummer at the Humberstone Gate Mecca dance hall in 1968-69. 34750, and University of Sussex, Mass Observation Archive [hereafter MOA], Music Dancing and Jazz [hereafter MDJ] 3/A, C.L. Nothing of the brutish thug looks which so typifies the modern day equivalent. 78 Carl Heimann cited in Anon., Stepping Out (London, 1940), p. 54. We have two adult sons and weve all visited Mansfield on several occasions. The same probably goes for Cobblestone. Returned to the Palais when I finished working there and remember seeing Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers one night. 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. Saw Gene Vincent, Rocking Berries, Barron Knights, Mike Berry there and many other bands, Sunday night was the best time. Particularly common in the 1920s were conversions of former roller-skating rinks, which were ideal, given their large dimensions and height. 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. Performers would dash across Humberstone Gate for interval drink, Enjoying our history and nostalgia stories? 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. Postcard view of the entrance tower of the Locarno, Coventry, 1960 (author's private collection). Good times. and The Builder, 9 September 1960, p. 471. Powered by Invision Community, Fly Fishing, Golf, Gardening, Reading, 1960s Music, Gilbert & Sullivan, Cricket, Notts County, Archery, Railways, Movies, Art, Travel. "useRatesEcommerce": false 13. Spotlights playfully danced around the crowded floor, too. 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. DM3a. Fig. Palais de Dance The old Victoria Hall had been taken over by Mr and Mrs HG Roscoe in September 1929 and re-christened the Palais de Danse. Absolutely love that record, viral or not! 32 See MOA, MDJ, 3/A, C.L. Many of the Mecca dance halls became bingo halls. I remember Love on amountain top being a big spin too. I often wondered if other people would put the same records to the same venue (they were obviously played elsewhere at the time). The Palais De Danse, Upper Parliament Street. In the early Fifties the management and running of the Palais fell to Adele Roscoe and Freddie Fitzgerald (her Husband and Dancing Partner for many years It Virtually became the place to go Dancing Etc The first change they made was to bring in the Hardy Smith Orchestra Which after a Few years were replaced by Art Lester from Nottingham. The line-up of the orchestra had changed, also the name Carmen Sylva (for his orchestra) vanished. Every one of those records to me are Casino tunes. Hi to all interested in The Mansfields of the early and mid 60s. 63 The Builder, 24 September 1937, p. 544. met my girlfriend of the time Sue Elliott daughter of Gerry Elliott ex sheriff of Nottingham and overman down Gedling pit, nearly crapped myself when I started working there and saw him. I don't actually remember it being played. The movement was inspired by Cunninghams childhood game of skimming stones over a pond. They changed their name to the Mansfields in 1964. 87 Richards, Jeffrey, The Age of the Dream Palace: Cinema and Society in Britain, 19301939 (London, 1984), pp. The width and direction of floorboards also had to be given careful thought, with some experts arguing that a floor of secret-nailed, tongue-and-groove floorboards in narrow widths gave the best effect. Mick Knight was the Manager of the Palais, whose Mum used to be my Dinner Lady at Daybrook Junior School and they lived together on Edwin Street in Daybrook if I remember right. We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. At the time, Harry was drummer with the Palaiss resident trio, The Mike Miller Set, led by singer/guitarist Mike Hester, said Adrian. Jewellers began using palladium in 1939 as a platinum alternative when creating white gold. 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. Palais de Danse Nottingham c1925 www.picturethepast.org.uk Nottingham s Palais de Danse opened on the corner of King Edward Street, John Street and Convent Street I often close my eyes, have a little memory flutter and can still smell the Brut as if it was yesterday. 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. Palladium is one of six metals belonging to the platinum family, and it has a melting point of 2831 degrees Fahrenheit. Others updated and altered their atmosphere regularly using such decorative schemes. I entered into a singing competition they use to run and I won. Patrons of different classes were often segregated by temporal and spatial means. Second, and equally important, the revolving bandstand added a highly theatrical air to the evening's proceedings, essential to create the kind of escapist atmosphere dance-hall managements were aiming for. 34 Kimber, Jane, Danse to the Music of Time, Hammersmith and Fulham Historic Buildings Group Newsletter, 19 (Autumn 2008), p. 7Google Scholar. up to 2s. 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. It was originally designed as a dance hall and billiard saloon. The Palais de Danse on Humberstone Gate, Leicester. 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. The building with the globe is the former Palais De Danse, opened in 1925 as a dance hall and billiard saloon, in the late 1980s the 10) was high. I dont have an exact date for this but it would be about March/April 1968. The Tommy Allen Trio, Bill Buttery and his Band, Harry Theakstone and his Band andDownbeaters Group etc last contact was Ramsey Allcock who played for the Blue Ramblers in the early 50s and was a Teacher at Yorke St School, MW in the 50s. 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! By this point, Mecca also employed its own group of in-house architects for interiors, Kett and Neve, perhaps best known as the designers of one of the first motorway service stations, Trowell services on the M1 (also for Mecca).Footnote 50 The Stevenage Locarno (Fig. The club is used as a student night club for both of the universities in Nottingham. The main dance hall with a floor of 105 feet (32m) by 85 feet (26m) which accommodated 600 dancers. The Palais de Danse, Nottingham. 89 Dancing Times (October 1931), pp. 76 Baxendale, John, into another kind of life in which anything might happen Popular Music and Late Modernity, 19101930, Popular Music, 14.2 (1995), pp. 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. And another one on my list! Palais De Danse, Lower Parliament Street, Nottingham Rotating dance floor at the Palais! www.ten-years-after.com and www.alvinlee.de. Like music halls, public dance facilities for the lower classes often began as spontaneous get-togethers in public houses and other public places, where singing and common instruments provided music to dance to. 35 Duncan, Hammersmith's Palaces of Pleasure, p. 4. 6). Your link has been automatically embedded. When we werent dancing there we were probably at the Cavendish. 4142Google Scholar, 108. History. Local commentators believed that the building increased the city's status. During the 1920s and 1930s, advertisements emphasised the luxurious nature of the dance-hall experience. 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). Between 1914 and 1938, the average working week fell from 54 to 48 hours. Great tune. We used to go to most of the Nottingham ballrooms,The Palais, The Queens , The Elizabethan Rooms, The Sherwood Rooms Etc. It was a six-day week playing for ballroom dancing. The Palais De Dance with Jack O'Boyle. The main dance hall with a floor of 105 feet (32 m) by 85 feet (26 m) which accommodated 600 dancers. 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. 95 MOA, WC, 48/C, Observations of Saturday Night, 3 April 1937, pp. 27 TWA, DT.Tur/4/AG1833/d, Mayfair Ballroom, Newcastle Stage (1961). What a pair of real gents they were and full of interesting recollections of their time with the band. 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. I've not seen Tommy for nigh on 30 odd years. I remember the Jbirds and also my late husband Johnny Gold playing there. My name may be published alongside the comment on the website, but my e-mail address will not be published. 8889Google Scholar. The final date was the 4 musicians backing Heinz (formerly bass player with The Tornados). 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. "Other vocal duties were carried out by bass guitarist Fran Black, who had played with the famous all-ladies Ivy Benson band. I started going in spring 1980. This multi-class audience for dance halls, and the democratisation it represented, was reflected in their design and even their names. 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. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. Each night of the week targeted a different audience. 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. Then we would amble up through Hockley. In London, the Grafton Galleries, the Wharncliffe Rooms, the Portman Rooms, the Savoy Hotel and the Princess Galleries were popular locations for society dances before the First World War and served as models for the new building type.Footnote 14 Following the war, fashionable restaurants and hotels continued to expand their dancing facilities, as new dances from across the Atlantic captured the public imagination. The New Bristol Centre was perhaps the zenith of these multi-purpose buildings. Under new management, the Palais continued as a ballroom but was converted, after damage by vandals in 1973, into a bingo hall and used as such throughout the 70s and 80s. The very name adopted by the modern dance hall, palais de danse, emphasises this ambition. 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. The low cost, from 6d. 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. In the early 90s the Palais was briefly used as a rave club. Used to have aquick drink in the Horse & Jockey just across the road back in those days., as did many Palais-De-Dance fans. The Majestic dance hall in Crewe, for example, was opened in 1961 by the Rank Organisation (which had diversified into dancing as cinema-going declined) following its conversion from a Gaumont cinema in a building originally erected as a picture house in 1911.Footnote 29 One of the most famous conversions from cinema to dance hall was the Rivoli Ballroom, Brockley, south London, opened in 1959.Footnote 30 The Locarno, Blackburn, was converted by the Mecca group from the former Olympia cinema at a cost of 130,000 in 1959.Footnote 31 Mecca became the largest name in dance-hall ownership and was particularly influential in the development of the building type. Can't understand why these aren't played now, they were so BIG in '76. A small group of young lads would gather in Gedling and make their way to the number 50 bus about 11am. Like you said they where playing at other venues so it really does come down to where you heard them as to where you get the memories, Outsiders, JC Messina, Kelly St Claire , Gerri Thomas, Harry Betts, John Hendley, Barnaby Bye, Frankie Crocker, Three Degrees (Contact), The Apollas , Billy Purcell, Bobby Diamond, KIki Dee, + lots more, all massive records at T'palais .. love em or hate em, they were a part of the scene in those days, still very vivid to this day, Ian. London, The National Archives, BT 31/24605/155007, Hammersmith Palais de Danse (191932). But most of all I love the Palais because I got see my dad. In the post-war period, following the shortages and restrictions of the so-called age of austerity, Britain emerged into a period of sustained and widespread prosperity. 75962. The lighting comprised a series of large exotic lamps in translucent glass, decorated with a mixture of Art Deco and oriental patterns to resemble stylised Chinese lanterns, supplemented by the dramatic use of changing coloured spotlights focused on the dance-floor fountain. Nottingham, Family, The aspirational nature of the building was further reflected in the various facilities provided. It was emmotional. Fig. 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. Smithford Way, on which the Locarno was located, was pedestrianised and multi-storey car parks were constructed close by. Nite Owl Leicester,dungeon And Beachcomber Nottingham. 2. Lita Rosa, Dennis Lotus ans Dicky Valentine sang with the band. 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. Often went to the Monday night dance at the YMCA on Shakespeare street. 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. Managed to replace Johnny Ross recently, but the Malibus still elude me. they are all faves of mine too.i love the tunes from "The Palais", youve got great taste mate ! Learnt to jive there! Any reccomends? 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. Mike Knight is second from the right and my dad is the chap wearing the party hat, 22nd April 2012 "Notts Palais Crew" by Souled On Soul, on Flickr, And here's a very rare image of the Palais I found after a lot of searching t'internet, nottingham palais by world of andrew woodyatt, on Flickr. Artists from Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England. Display as a link instead, Dance halls provided an architecture of optimism, hope and modernity, and their style and function represented a democratisation of pleasure and the emergence of a more liberal social and political culture in Britain. Crewe's wooden framework, which served to define the dance floor and divide up the space, mimicked the architecture of a Chinese pagoda, with lacquered columns and ornamental fretwork. I took Sharon by the hand, tapped Mark on the shoulder and told everyone we'd see them shortly and that was it, the 3 of us heading straight to the front doors, and in. 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