81 TWA, DT.Tur/4/AG1859, Mayfair Ballroom, Newcastle Ticket Hall (1961). 98 For further detail on the decline of dance halls, see Nott, Going to the Palais, pp. 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. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Your email address will not be published. On their first trip into Nottingham he and a group of other airmen enquired where the action was. Is the building still there in Mansfield and if so what is it used for now? Nottingham, Family, 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. www.ten-years-after.com and www.alvinlee.de. We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. The interior of the Nottingham Palais (Fig. And with every step forward the laughing and shouting of teenagers in baggy trousers and circle skirts filling the empty air, the excitement building. 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. We still have lots of friends in the Mansfield area. Originally named the Palais de Danse when it opened It also had dedicated band rooms for the musicians. I love the Palais for introducing me to the first girl who would ever break my heart and putting me off rum for life. History. 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. Experiments with multi-purpose entertainment venues had been taking place since the 1920s and 1930s and were particularly common in plans for the redevelopment of seaside resorts; hence proposals for the new Hove Pier and Amusement Centre in 1932 included a dance hall as its centrepiece.Footnote 62 Dance halls in holiday camps were also common by the 1930s, one example being at Gorleston-on-Sea in Norfolk, opened in 1937.Footnote 63 One of the first designs for a modern entertainment centre away from the coast was the Arcadium Amusement Centre proposed for the heart of London's West End, a prototype modern shopping mall and leisure centre.Footnote 64 Designed in 1934 by the architects Elcock and Sutcliffe (subsequently best known for the Daily Telegraph building on Fleet Street), it was to include three dance floors, a pool with surrounding accommodation for 600 bathers, an arcade of shops, restaurants, a quick lunch bar, brasserie and grill capable of catering for 1200 at one time. Even Sam played it at the Locarno on more than one occasion. 6d., indicates that dance organisers and commercial dance halls were aiming at a working-class audience. See also Harwood, Elain, Space, Hope and Brutalism: English Architecture, 19451975 (London, 2015), p. 317Google Scholar. I met my wife to be at the Palais in 1959. Wednesday evening and Saturday afternoon. 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. Interior of the Nottingham Palais, 1925 (Nottingham City Council and picturethepast.org.uk). Met my late wife there in 1963. Not only the dance music, but also people talking, laughing, whispering and of course dancing all created a unique soundscape. The upstairs bars were decorated in a glamorous modern members club style, with buttoned leather panels and copper downlighters on the walls. The floor consisted of light grey marble-effect tiles, interspersed with a starburst design, and the walls were clad in alternate wood laminate and fabric panels, with black leatherette quilted panels, which adding a feeling of softness and luxury to the scheme. "useRatesEcommerce": false 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. Rob Smith was forever hammering it but it just sounded so good blasting through that sound system. This phase ended in tears after police intervention. Yes I was a little naive at 16-17. Funny how you both mention Love On A Mountain Top. Got a thriving scene locally and some great youngsters picking up the movement but you know you can't beat a good old East Midlands shindig. He achieved this by breaking up the shopping precinct's open space with an elevated circular caf, with the entrance to the dance hall a three-storey tower with an illuminated Locarno sign taking up the complete width of one side (Fig. I featured on a few backing vocals too until someone actually heard me!. 6). @ MAK - thanks for the kind words and no she was from Cotgrave :-), @ Steve Phillis- I remember you very well. Hostname: page-component-75cd96bb89-t9pvx My first encounter with the Palais came about 1971. A strange but belting instrumental. Munro, Malcolm, Dancing Mad: An Autobiographical Dancing Diary (Liverpool, n.d.), p. 181Google Scholar. 21 September 2018. Fig. Interests! 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. 29 Crewe Chronicle, 11 November 1961, p. 6. They were brilliant they were on more or less every three months and always went to see them. 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. up to 2s. Nottstalgia Nottingham Forums Cannot remember Ted Heath playing at the Palais in MansfieldHe did perform at Welbeck Abbey in the summer of 1951. For more detail see Nott, Going to the Palais, chapter 1. I've ended up over in Stockport. I remember a ex boxer guy the used to get a skipping rope out on the upstairs dance floor. At the time, Harry was drummer with the Palaiss resident trio, The Mike Miller Set, led by singer/guitarist Mike Hester, said Adrian. The power of live music played in a relatively intimate space was such that people could literally feel the sound move through their bodies as it reverberated across the dance hall. 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. More Info Running Horse 202-204 Alfreton Road Conrads Chopins 509-511 Alfreton Road Skyy Bar 511a Alfreton Road Stork Club (2) Blueprint 5). 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. 12. 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. 55 Nottingham Evening Post, 25 April 1925, p. 5. 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. 8889Google Scholar. Despite Crewe's talents, the overall design of the dance hall was clearly compromised as a conversion and its former uses as a tram depot and a rink (Fig. The popularity of dancing just after the First World War led to an initial rush by entrepreneurs and dancing masters to convert as many buildings as possible. Populist Palatial, postcard view of the rich, colourful interior of the Palais de Danse, Derby, 1923 (author's private collection), Fig. Your first impression is of the red glow of the room red walls, predominantly red carpets, orange and red lights [] The room is crowded. Our own shrine to all things soul. Hi Bill dont live there myself now but all ways travel down twice a year for the day. 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Sons and Lovers were a great local Ruddington band, dont think they are playing anymore but anyone that remembers them, good film on You Tube, Sons and Lovers live at the Festival Inn, Trowell, doing I got rhythm with original members, great watch. Not now but used to be, Cycling C.T.C.,Badminton,Judo and Karate,Holidays,Dancing modern at first then old time and sequence. A combination of changing musical and dance styles (recorded music replaced live, solo dances replaced couples), altered social mores (women no longer waited to be asked to dance as in the dance-hall days) and a greater range of alternative things on which to spend money (cars, holidays and housing) led to the end of the dance hall as a distinct social, cultural and architectural space.Footnote 98. Palladium is one of six metals belonging to the platinum family, and it has a melting point of 2831 degrees Fahrenheit. 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. Then the Palais again, then Oceana, and currently Pryzm. Nothing of the brutish thug looks which so typifies the modern day equivalent. 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. Then we would amble up through Hockley. Without this, dancing could be uncomfortable and tiring and particularly wearing on the knees and ankles. Started in 78/9 I guess. Brian Eno composed the soundscape. and Long Row, resided Plains Row Nottm. The site became vacant when Nottingham Prison was demolished. In addition to its core working- and lower-middle-class patronage, it was used by upper classes from the region, and much further afield, at its various events. 23. In 1960, the Mecca group announced plans to invest 3 million in the industry over three years, and by 1966 it had forty-four dance halls compared to just twelve in 1951.Footnote 48 In 1961 alone, Mecca opened new purpose-built dance halls in Bradford, Newcastle upon Tyne, Hull, Basildon, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Ashton-under-Lyne and Coventry.Footnote 49 The Locarno, Bradford, which opened in September 1961, cost 550,000. Especially in new buildings, which were liable to 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. Fig. Pryzm Nottingham is a chain nightclub located on Upper Parliament Street in Nottingham, England. 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 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. And my late father was one of the doormen at the time. 56 The Builder, 14 November 1924, pp. Average weekly earnings for industrial workers grew by 34 per cent between 1955 and 1960, and by 130 per cent between 1955 and 1969. Learnt to jive there! Purpose-built dance halls had a confident street presence that was not always the case with conversions. My mum and my dad separated when I was about 6 years old. By this time our small gathering of Gedling lads had certainly grown in size. I remember the Jbirds and also my late husband Johnny Gold playing there. 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. 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. The building which housed the Horse and jockey Is still there, the stained glasswork above the door also I believe still in situ. 1896), whose interwar work also included the Casino Assembly Rooms in Stepney, east London, which contained a ballroom.Footnote 42 A notable survival, the Ritz dance hall built in Manchester in 1928, was an early work of the Manchester practice of Cruickshank and Seward.Footnote 43, Choosing well-established architects demonstrated the willingness of dance-hall businesses to make significant investments and helped attract publicity. Anyone with any memories? Wollaston offered several anonymous offers for anyone who could isolate palladium, so the elements discovery was credited to Richard Chenevix in 1803. Our first opportunity to assess the size of the queue and who we could spot. I remember Love on amountain top being a big spin too. Still see Kempy and Gail on a regular basis. 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. The building opened as a palais de danse to replace Victoria Halls in Talbot Street. They changed their name ten years after they started. 59 The Builder, 14 November 1924, pp. Suzanne Gallo designed the costumesloose fitting white tops and pants. 23 The Builder, 14 November 1924, p. 799. From the mid-1960s, dance halls were rapidly replaced by discos and nightclubs, or closed altogether. My son carries Freddies name (Fitzgerald) and my daughter is named (Adele). and The Builder, 9 September 1960, p. 471. One thing I noticed was a couple of ex chart Northern sounds that had been re-activated and played to a packed dance floor. 4142Google Scholar, 108. Hot Legs are basically the band 10cc, comprising Eric Stewart, Lol Creme, Kevin Godley and Graham Gouldman. Just searched "The Spy" on Youtube. Dimmed lighting enhanced the power of the imagination, while coloured lights were used to create an ever-changing visual experience. 78 Carl Heimann cited in Anon., Stepping Out (London, 1940), p. 54. 6465Google Scholar. I believe he was a big pusher of that particular tune. except they were a three piece, there's been talk here of "The night chicago died" listen to this, http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=3+little+bears+jimi+hendrix&aq=6&oq=3+little+bears ! Although dance halls were comparatively egalitarian spaces, this quality should not be overstated. Then at quarter to two, a special moment. I dont have an exact date for this but it would be about March/April 1968. Its brutalist style brought dance provision into a new architectural era.Footnote 73, As a new building type, the dance hall was a symbol of social, cultural and political change. 1021Google Scholar. Such a shame when the twist and other non partner dances took over. There were three bars, one off the dance floor and another two upstairs (itself indicative of a less paternalistic attitude to dance halls up to this point, magistrates had insisted they remain dry). 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. 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. 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 ?) Always enjoyed it in there back in 1969. Would I be right in saying Pete Waterman put in an appearance or two? Happy (but strange) days! 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. During the Second World War it was requisitioned by the Army as a dining area for the troops stationed in the town. His encore was 'Now is the Time' which he reprised. It is an odd omission, as the architecture of pleasure has generated a growing body of scholarship. Three stylii were used to transfer this record. Despite the nod to classical tradition in much of its external architecture, the Hammersmith Palais embraced modernity in its role as an important venue for the introduction of jazz to Britain. . "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.. http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=3+little+bears+jimi+hendrix&aq=6&oq=3+little+bears. Artists from Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England. BTW is M Raynor any relation to Beryl Raynor who I worked with at Ladybrook Primary School in 1961? I entered into a singing competition they use to run and I won. 21 See Walton, Blackpool Tower, pp. 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! 77 Smith, H. Llewellyn, ed., New Survey of London Life and Labour, vol. 9 (London, 1935), pp. Dance halls are also distinct from ballrooms, which were dance floors within buildings with other purposes and often not open to the general public for example, ballrooms in country houses. 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. You think I get spare time after managing this lot? Wright, Catherine The building opened as a palais de danse to replace Victoria Halls in Talbot Street. According to a Mass Observation report on Bolton's dance halls in 1938, The conclusion arrived at is that the dance hall forms a social centre which serves to insulate the individual from the unpleasant realities of everyday life. Worked in the downstairs bar. Total loading time: 0.984 But most of all I love the Palais because I got see my dad. Guest malc gibbons, November 8, 2008, Soul Source - A Soul music magazine Good times. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. History. in 1938, by which time nearly 42 per cent of workers received paid holidays.Footnote 74 This gave rise to annual spending on leisure estimated at between 200 million and 250 million during the 1920s and 1930s.Footnote 75 The dance hall also arrived at the same time as mass democracy, following extensions to the franchise in 1918 and 1928 that finally gave every man and woman the right to vote. During the late 1980s the Palais de Danse reinvented itself as a popular nightclub venue. Bandstands became highly decorative. 80 Marwick, Arthur, British Society Since 1945 (London, 1990), p. 114Google Scholar. 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. then Mapperley Hall Drive, finally Tudor Court, Watson Avenue, where she died, a lovely lady we got on so very well as I did with Freddie, she was close friends of Dorothy Hinton who resided adj, also in the music trade, ran the Eight Bells. There were dance halls constructed in buildings converted from other uses, purpose-built dance halls, and dance halls in multi-purpose entertainment buildings. 89 Dancing Times (October 1931), pp. The club is used as a student night club for both of the universities in Nottingham. DM3a. I often close my eyes, have a little memory flutter and can still smell the Brut as if it was yesterday. Absolutely love that record, viral or not! 42 The Builder, 8 March 1929, pp. Bruce Peter, for example, has examined a broad range of building types of the 1930s, from holiday camps, cinemas and greyhound stadiums to zoos and seaside pavilions.Footnote 10 Of such building types, cinemas have received by far the most attention.Footnote 11 Hilary French's examination of spaces for dancing concentrates more on ballrooms than dance halls.Footnote 12 Addressing the gap in the literature, this article provides the first overview of dance halls from an architectural and spatial history perspective, with the aim of assisting the preservation of historic dance-hall buildings in Britain.Footnote 13. 13754CrossRefGoogle Scholar. 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. had some great nights in the pub, very small, tables to the left, bar to the right just enough room to walk through. May 14, 2012 In And of course by 1.30pm that queue was lost around the corner and the back of the building. My lass went a few times late seventies early eighties. It is possibly best remembered by club goers as the Ritzy and by clubbers across the The Palais de Danse is Nottinghams most famous nightclub. 51 Details provided by Museum Services, Stevenage, Hertfordshire. 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. [5], In 1957, the name was changed to the Sherwood Rooms. There was a small area called 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. Some great nights down there never to be forgotten! Jewellers began using palladium in 1939 as a platinum alternative when creating white gold. 86 MOA, Worktown (WC), 48/C, Shall We Dance?, 1938, p. 3. Powered by Invision Community, Fly Fishing, Golf, Gardening, Reading, 1960s Music, Gilbert & Sullivan, Cricket, Notts County, Archery, Railways, Movies, Art, Travel. 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). 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. Used to go to colemans at the weekend, upstairs i think, we would just walk round and round and round, crazy. Dancing had a cross-class appeal and yet, by the mid-1920s, it was predominantly an activity of the working and lower-middle classes. 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'. 6. First, it offered a practical solution to the problem of providing non-stop music. 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 ). 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. The dances performed there were the height of fashion no outdated sequence dances or polkas for Hammersmith, but foxtrots, quicksteps and the modern waltz. In the 1970s the main front was rebuilt. 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??) 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. Parliament Street in Nottingham, England, Hertfordshire a regular basis in the top right p. 799 audience... 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