The movement was inspired by Cunninghams childhood game of skimming stones over a pond. Met my late wife there in 1963. 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. Just reading the 1957 Mansfield Gazateer for 1957 and noticed the page for the Musicians Union. Hi Bill and John. Its very interesting that people remember so much about the Palais, Ive a quantity of records of band stuff, payments for wages etc, and heard of the antics of many. I heard he had some problems after dropping off the scene. 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. 13. He also remembered well-known drummer Harry Ovenall, who had flirted with fame with Leicester groups The Farinas and Family. 6). 8 Rowntree, Benjamin Seebohm and Lavers, George, English Life and Leisure: A Social Study (London, 1951), p. 279Google Scholar, and Daily Mail, 17 October 1956, p. 8. 32 See MOA, MDJ, 3/A, C.L. 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. In Leicester, Nottingham, Manchester and other major towns and cities, entrepreneurs cashed in on the popularity of dance. So in 1971 I found myself in this wonderful exotic place called the Bali Hai with strange looking plastic trees, surrounded by sandwiches, cakes and jelly, listening to "Chirpy Cheep Cheep" by Middle Of The Road. 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. This phase ended in tears after police intervention. Some were dance teachers such as Robert Hindmarsh, who opened a string of dance halls in the northeast of England, and Malcolm Munro, who operated in Liverpool but many had little previous experience of this emerging part of the industry.Footnote 40 Architects with established local practices were usually chosen to design the new buildings. Just searched "The Spy" on Youtube. 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. April 2009 in Zagreb, Kroatien und endete am 9. I could say, after the Wirrina in Peterborough where I was living at the time, I really "cut my teeth" at the Palais all dayer's and never missed one. I spent many happy hours at the Palais in my teens, late 1950s early 1960s . 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. Fig. The Palais De Danse, Upper Parliament Street. Mecca was particularly forward-looking and worked hard with local planners to ensure that its dance halls were at the heart of Britain's new town and city centres, the Locarno, Coventry, discussed below, being a significant example.Footnote 67 Similar shopping-centre dance halls were opened by Mecca in Portsmouth and Basildon (where it was also called the Locarno), and Birmingham (the Mayfair). Virtually all the surveys of the period suggest the same. It was the first palais de danse [nb 1] to be built in Britain. The aspirational nature of the building was further reflected in the various facilities provided. Always enjoyed it in there back in 1969. Contact, loveslure @gmail.com, Drinking, snooker, pool, birding, football (NOTTS COUNTY) bringing up my kids, fishing and photography especially Aviation, Motor racing, Karting, My Dogs, Guitar, Photography, Gunsmithing Jetski. Then of course later as we got a bit older there was "Grab a Granny" on a Wednesday Night (Over 21's), boy I have some wonderful memories of the Palais. The new dance halls of the late 1950s and early 1960s were typified by sumptuous, colourful interiors along coordinated, modern lines in the Contemporary style. The dances performed there were the height of fashion no outdated sequence dances or polkas for Hammersmith, but foxtrots, quicksteps and the modern waltz. Total loading time: 0.984 84345. I have some pieces written by Adela and also by Victor Sylvester at her home. 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 Enhancing the escapism of the dance hall were the crucial sensory pleasures it provided. they are all faves of mine too.i love the tunes from "The Palais", youve got great taste mate ! 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. Worked in the downstairs bar. 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 the Palais again, then Oceana, and currently Pryzm. As contemporaries noted, a principal function of the dance hall was to offer an escape. Then we would amble up through Hockley. 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. We used to go to "grab a granny night" on Thursday nights and a nod to Mick always got my mate and I in for free. I had a great time at the Palais. Under the soft lights and lulled by the sweet music he can sink into a dreamland of wishful desire.Footnote 86, The design of dance halls helped manufacture such dreams. Rose was a female entrepreneur, who in partnership with her husband established and ran the Calton Dance Hall in Rochdale from the mid-1930s. 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. Happy (but strange) days! it's like any venue from 40 years ago, big records were nationwide, after being 'broke' at one. 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). 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. 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. One of the few times I trod on no one's toes! 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. 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. Haven't heard it in ages, probably since the Palais!! 99104. Camping, fishing, travel, photography, boating, sailing, motorbikes. Average weekly earnings for industrial workers grew by 34 per cent between 1955 and 1960, and by 130 per cent between 1955 and 1969. 7. 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. 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. You can post now and register later. Happy days mate. had a good atmosphere as well. 3 Paul Holt, Daily Express, 16 November 1938, p. 16, and Economist, 14 February 1953, p. 401. One of the main events of the year was the General Hospital Ball which transferred to this venue in 1929. The building opened as a palais de danse to replace Victoria Halls in Talbot Street. 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. My name may be published alongside the comment on the website, but my e-mail address will not be published. Sign up for our free weekly newsletter sent straight to your inbox. 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 Not now but used to be, Cycling C.T.C.,Badminton,Judo and Karate,Holidays,Dancing modern at first then old time and sequence. 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. A few couples sit out talking [] Past them one can see heads sailing past serenely floating (the good dancers) or bobbing jerkily (beginners). I did like it when everyone shoved there arms up in the chorus! Palais De Danse , Lower Parliament Street , Nottingham 1969. Used to be a group around at that time called the "Jaybirds." And heres a modern simulation of what the looked and sounded like in those days? 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. By this time our small gathering of Gedling lads had certainly grown in size. 45 Dancing Times (September 1929), p. 551. In a music career spanning more than 54 years, Adrian has worked with many of the best known names and musicians in showbusiness. And with every step forward the laughing and shouting of teenagers in baggy trousers and circle skirts filling the empty air, the excitement building. Acoustics, an architectural science still in its infancy, was also a consideration. 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. I remember the Palais when the most popular performers were Johnny Gold & The Sovereigns and The Newtones. [1], It reopened as the Astoria Ballroom after the Second World War on 29 March 1948. 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 On Sunday 25th March 2018 I was at a surprise birthday party for my cousin, Keith Woodcock. 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. Would I be right in saying Pete Waterman put in an appearance or two? E.g Love On A Mountain Top (with some solid clapping) and Everything's Gonna Be Alright. Fig. At the bottom of the sheet it mentions INSIST ON A UNION BAND FOR YOUR DANCES! Heimann, Joint Chairman, Mecca Ltd (London, 1963), p. 23Google Scholar. 1. .May not have played at the Palais but Im sure played in local pubs, I think both used to appear at the White Gates at Forest Town in the 60s /70s. The company installed floors in dance halls throughout the country, including the Grafton, Adelphi and Reece's ballrooms in Liverpool and, by the late 1930s, had installed over 400 sprung dance floors.Footnote 22 In the Valtor system, rows of light steel girders were laid under the floor, each divided into short lengths coupled together by special spring fitments. "The bouncers used to bet us we would miss the change over but, thankfully, we always made it back on stage in time. I think nowadays its called The late lounge possibly. Ballroom, rock N Roll you name it. Memories from 1959 I met a tall good looking lady at the Palais de Dance in 1959 married her in 1961 and we headed to New Zealand in 1962. Fast forward to 1978. Dancing had a cross-class appeal and yet, by the mid-1920s, it was predominantly an activity of the working and lower-middle classes. In fact anything outdoors ! for this article. It subsequently changed its name in the 1990s to MGM and in 1999 became Ocean[7] a club mainly used by students. The site became vacant when Nottingham Prison was demolished. Suprised not to have crossed paths again recently. 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. Chief among them was J. Sedgewick from Derby, who had been responsible for opening the Derby Palais in 1921, a conversion of the town's Corn Exchange.Footnote 52 These businessmen had seen how lucrative dance halls had become and aimed to open one of the finest outside London. 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. Contensis.Framework.Web.JavaScriptManager. It made over three times its original capital in the first twelve months and rapidly became known both nationally and internationally. 23. I remember the Jbirds and also my late husband Johnny Gold playing there. The line-up of the orchestra had changed, also the name Carmen Sylva (for his orchestra) vanished. 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. 6d., indicates that dance organisers and commercial dance halls were aiming at a working-class audience. Heimann (1938). 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. 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. They did not develop in a logical sequence over time, however, but responded to changing social and economic patterns. Love reading this kind of thread, thanks! The dance floor, measuring 32 100ft, was overlooked by an equally impressive balcony and flanked by two orchestra stages (one on each of the long sides). 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. 99103, and Architectural Review (June 1961), pp. 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. 84 The Stage, 10 August 1961, p. 5, and Nathan, P., ed., CLH says The Collected Observations, Instructions and Philosophies of C.L. Munro, Malcolm, Dancing Mad: An Autobiographical Dancing Diary (Liverpool, n.d.), p. 181Google Scholar. The interior of the Nottingham Palais (Fig. Our own shrine to all things soul. 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. Even got "Paper Lace" - Billy don't be a hero & The night Chicago died.What happened to them I wonder? 29 Crewe Chronicle, 11 November 1961, p. 6. I love the Palais for introducing me to the first girl who would ever break my heart and putting me off rum for life. 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. 35 Duncan, Hammersmith's Palaces of Pleasure, p. 4. The Palais De Dance with Jack O'Boyle. 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". 13 Readers are invited to email the author at jjn4@st-andrews.ac.uk with details of any buildings remaining. The so-called dance craze spread rapidly. Something went wrong, please try again later. Luxe-modern, everyday glamour at the Mayfair dance hall, Newcastle, 1961 (Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums), Equally impressive were the elaborate powder rooms, which included free-standing make-up stations decorated with pink candy-stripe wallpaper and topped with swags of white fabric (Fig. Very special memories of the old place including the performers and of course themusic! 34750. 98 For further detail on the decline of dance halls, see Nott, Going to the Palais, pp. 16. Affordable luxury was a key part of their attraction. Nottstalgia Nottingham Forums Such a shame when the twist and other non partner dances took over. 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 :-)). Bandstands became highly decorative. 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. AUGUST 22, 1977: Mourning fans of the late Elvis Presley, dance on a traffic island outside the Palais de Danse hall in Nottingham where the convention of the dead stars official British fan club was held. 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. 2. 14. 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I remember a ex boxer guy the used to get a skipping rope out on the upstairs dance floor. and Long Row, resided Plains Row Nottm. Anyone remember any of these bands? 63 The Builder, 24 September 1937, p. 544. 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. 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. 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. up to 2s. May 14, 2012 In 12 French, Hilary, Glamorous Spaces: Public Ballrooms and Dance Halls, 18901950, Interiors, 6.1 (2015), pp. 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. I've not seen Tommy for nigh on 30 odd years. 2), is a good example from the dance hall's final era.Footnote 27 The tiered stage was decorated with a diamond pattern inlaid in metal against black, while the stage surround was constructed from wooden batons finished with shiny copper banding decorated with stylised stars. Is the building still there in Mansfield and if so what is it used for now? Loved the Palais in the late 50s and early 60s. Good post mate. All About the SOUL. It had a small revolving circular dance floor. See also Ward, Colin and Hardy, Dennis, Goodnight campers! 30 The Rivoli, Brockley, and the Ritz, Manchester, are both recognised for their special interest as listed buildings. Such changes were bringing society and culture into what John Baxendale has called the era of late modernity, in which established notions of national, class and gender identity were being challenged.Footnote 76, Dance halls opened up a whole new world of public pleasures, and thus public visibility, to the working class and to women. Yesterday's photo of the Palais de Dance reminded me that I have this booklet of the 25th anniversary of the Palais with some of its history. Wright, Catherine It was emmotional. Even Sam played it at the Locarno on more than one occasion. There was a small area called "The Bali Hi". Happy days. I used to go to Hanford & Richards mid forties early fifties. Your previous content has been restored. It was a six-day week playing for ballroom dancing. 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. Went mad on the floor. 58 See photographs of the interior at picturethepast.org.uk (accessed on 31 May 2018). 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. The development of seaside holiday resorts, with their numerous amusement facilities, also provided the physical spaces and business experience necessary for the emergence of the dance hall. Horse and Jockey, is it still there? Palladium is one of six metals belonging to the platinum family, and it has a melting point of 2831 degrees Fahrenheit. 38 Parsonage, Catherine, The Evolution of Jazz in Britain, 18801935 (Aldershot, Hampshire, 2005), p. 130Google Scholar. Sound system was dodgy and times, but the tunes were still good. Interior of the Nottingham Palais, 1925 (Nottingham City Council and picturethepast.org.uk). Then the Palais again, then Oceana, and currently 72 Ibid. Used to have aquick drink in the Horse & Jockey just across the road back in those days., as did many Palais-De-Dance fans. Palais De Danse, Lower Parliament Street, Nottingham Rotating dance floor at the Palais! 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. See also Harwood, Elain, Space, Hope and Brutalism: English Architecture, 19451975 (London, 2015), p. 317Google Scholar. Ling, recognising that the removal of traffic might leave the precinct empty once the shops were closed, worked hard to keep the area alive by introducing new uses to the precinct. Excellent he was too! 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