By Elaborate neon lighting at the Hammersmith Palais, early 1960s, As the dance craze of the 1920s expanded, purpose-built dance halls proliferated. Ladies Boudoir, Mayfair dance hall, Newcastle, 1961 (Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums). During the 1920s and 1930s, advertisements emphasised the luxurious nature of the dance-hall experience. 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. I emigrated to Australia in 1972 but have very fond memories of those times. There were also fancy steelwork stools, and the floor was covered by a large floral carpet. Will be playing both (plus some Syvie Vartan) at True Blue at the Albany Club in Coventry on 16/12/16. Dancers were thrilled by the opportunity to let themselves go. 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 I heard he had some problems after dropping off the scene. 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. There was a good crowd in and we had a really great night. Palais De Danse, Lower Parliament Street, Nottingham Rotating dance floor at the Palais! At Christmas? know one of paper lace was later working as a joiner. Without this, dancing could be uncomfortable and tiring and particularly wearing on the knees and ankles. People of different classes did attend the Nottingham Palais, but they did not necessarily mix. Dance music was clearly a dominating feature. Not just because it's quality but because of the crowds thunderous claps at the right times. Heimann had been inspired by seeing such facilities on various tours of the US during the 1940s and 1950s.Footnote 84 Similarly, in Dundee dance halls in the 1950s, automated perfume machines could be found in the women's cloakrooms, which gave a spray of Yardley's Lily of the Valley when a coin was inserted.Footnote 85, Fig. Conversions were common not only in the early days of dance-hall construction (around 191823), but also in its closing days (195560). 16. I used to go to Hanford & Richards mid forties early fifties. 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. I wonder if anyone remembers us now after all these years ? Then I received a call to join Val Doonicans backing band, the John Currie Quartet, full-time. Local commentators believed that the building increased the city's status. 42 The Builder, 8 March 1929, pp. I'm looking for photos of "The Jay Cats" - "The Jay Birds" - Early photos of Alvin Lee, Leo Lyons, Ric Lee, Dave Quickmire - Ten Years After..this also includes any and all photos of these bands and people for use on our websites. I remember Love on amountain top being a big spin too. Used to go to colemans at the weekend, upstairs i think, we would just walk round and round and round, crazy. Here's a few that I'm talking about (I could list loads). I love the Palais for some of the most endearing and enduring friendships I have ever made. "Their organist was Graham Elliott, who I used to practise jazz with during the daytime in the large, empty Palais hall.. 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. Hostname: page-component-75cd96bb89-t9pvx It subsequently changed its name in the 1990s to MGM and in 1999 became Ocean[7] a club mainly used by students. You went in one night and picked up a ticket for free entry for next night. But most of all I love the Palais because I got see my dad. 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. Total loading time: 0.984 Ocean is a nightclub located on Greyfriar Gate in Nottingham, England. Henry Holmes Dawson (18771964) seemingly worked with Thraves only on the palais, as he was in a London-based partnership with H.W. Allerdyce from 1920. Fig. 10. Frontage of the Nottingham Palais, showing its illuminated globe, 1925 (Nottingham City Council and picturethepast.org.uk) 21 See Walton, Blackpool Tower, pp. Heimann, Joint Chairman, Mecca Ltd (London, 1963), p. 23Google Scholar. The building opened as a palais de danse to replace Victoria Halls in Talbot Street. 81 TWA, DT.Tur/4/AG1859, Mayfair Ballroom, Newcastle Ticket Hall (1961). Both moved on from the band around 1967 to have successful careers in business. Hi John, yes great days, wonderful memories of our younger days. Sequence dances, where everyone performed the same steps, gave way to dances formulated specifically for couples, which involved much greater physical contact between partners the Bunny Hug and the Grizzly Bear, for example, required dancers to embrace. And of course by 1.30pm that queue was lost around the corner and the back of the building. 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. Fantastic to go to an all nighter on the Saturday and straight to the Palais for another 12 hours of dancing on the Sunday, just cos we could. It also had dedicated band rooms for the musicians. A dance hall and several pubs would guarantee its use after the shops had closed for the day. 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. 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. 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. 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. Originally named the Palais de Danse when it opened We also played the Festival Hall, Kirkby as well as many pubs and clubs in the area. 21 September 2018. 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. Heimann (1938). She had a dance studio at Bridlesmith Gate Nottm. Further interest was added by the use of modern decorative geometric cornice work on the ceiling, and a series of pink, burgundy and gold downlighters.Footnote 81 Inside the main hall, the large sprung dance floor was surrounded on all sides by a seating area with burgundy carpet and tables laid with crisp white linen.Footnote 82 The room's pastel colour scheme of pinks, pale green and gold detailing was at once feminine and luxurious. Happy days. The colourful and refined interior of Derby's Palais de Danse (Figs 14 and 15) demonstrates the level of glamour in leading dance halls. 44 Architectural Journal, 26 February 1930, pp. From the mid-1960s, dance halls were rapidly replaced by discos and nightclubs, or closed altogether. 17. It made over three times its original capital in the first twelve months and rapidly became known both nationally and internationally. Met my late wife there in 1963. See also Ward, Colin and Hardy, Dennis, Goodnight campers! And my late father was one of the doormen at the time. I really liked Tommy a lot. Very special memories of the old place including the performers and of course themusic! Clear editor. London, The National Archives, BT 31/24605/155007, Hammersmith Palais de Danse (191932). Happy (but strange) days! However, the backbone of the patronage was provided by the lower-middle and working classes more shop girls and factory workers than celebrities, and it was estimated that three million people had danced there by 1928.Footnote 39 Despite having begun as a conversion, the Hammersmith Palais continued as a dance hall well into the post-war era and was even given an elaborate new neon frontage in the early 1960s (Fig. Now reside in Norwich,Mansfield visit to see family every 6/8weeks Ron Brown. also a Big Rob Smith spin during those days was Hank Diamond-Soul sauce, another was the Motown girlie spin: Hang on Bill-Little Lisa. 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. I used to work part time evenings in the bar at the Palais during the 1960s. 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. Grayman45 The Hammersmith Palais was essentially one large uninterrupted space, with the dance floor separated from tables and chairs around the edges. Went mad on the floor. Enjoyed other peoples recollections of the Palais, the place where I met my now wife Margaret & actually danced to musicians. 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. For example, at Tony's Ballroom in Birmingham, in the mid-1930s, there were two halls with sumptuous interiors on an Eastern theme. Normally we were restricted to the sandwiches and coka cola we could cram into our Adidas sports bags. We used to go to most of the Nottingham ballrooms,The Palais, The Queens , The Elizabethan Rooms, The Sherwood Rooms Etc. The precious metal is now periodically used in dental golds and other dental metals. Patrons of different classes were often segregated by temporal and spatial means. Berlin II (1911 - 1914) According to the magazine The Artist, Vintilescu played till February 1, 1910 in the famous dance hall Palais de Danse in Berlin. Funny how you both mention Love On A Mountain Top. 31 Blackburn Times, 20 February 1959, p. 3. We moved down to Kent in the late 80s. The building which housed the Horse and jockey Is still there, the stained glasswork above the door also I believe still in situ. 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! Its Stag Room offered men electric shavers, hair cream and free shoeshine. I played the Palais 7 times and here are the dates and the band, 29/04/1966 (Carl Pagan and the Heathens). Also used to got to Roy & Mary Knight's on Cranbrook St. My wife and I with friends used to go to Enid Colman's. Any reccomends? The democratisation of pleasure that dance halls represented is nowhere better illustrated than in the varied social profile of the Hammersmith Palais's customers. My information will not be shared with any third party (see our Privacy Statement - opens in a new window). . Just reading the 1957 Mansfield Gazateer for 1957 and noticed the page for the Musicians Union. 30 The Rivoli, Brockley, and the Ritz, Manchester, are both recognised for their special interest as listed buildings. Rob Smith was forever hammering it but it just sounded so good blasting through that sound system. I was a regular for four years from 1976 so not quite the golden KTF period. It was known as Greyfriars Hall and was opened by the Lord Mayor of Nottingham, Walter Wessen, on 8 October 1929. Yep I went to the dayers and nighters. 10 Peter, Bruce, Form Follows Fun: Modernism and Modernity in British Pleasure Architecture 19251940 (London, 2007)Google Scholar. As contemporaries noted, a principal function of the dance hall was to offer an escape. There was a small area called 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. Should be a fantastic read so look out for it. During the Second World War it was requisitioned View all Google Scholar citations By And for 15 minutes we had the whole of the Palais de Danse to ourselves. Enhancing the escapism of the dance hall were the crucial sensory pleasures it provided. May 14, 2012 In . I entered into a singing competition they use to run and I won. "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)", "Buildings in the Broadmarsh Area of Nottingham: An Architectural and Historical Investigation", "These are the Nottingham nightclubs you went to in the 80s and 90s", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ocean,_Nottingham&oldid=1035028559, Infobox mapframe without OSM relation ID on Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, 30,000 (equivalent to 1,940,000 in 2021), This page was last edited on 23 July 2021, at 07:10. Popular acts to appear at the Palais included Jimmy Crawford and the Ravens. It was commissioned in 1924 by the Midland Palais de Danse Company, formed by several local entrepreneurs. No Sunday shopping throngs back then, just a feeling of having the city to ourselves. 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. } In the 1920s, borrowing from US cinema designs, atmospherics was widely used to create escapism in the dance hall.Footnote 87 This design trend was about bringing the outside inside, with interiors made to resemble Spanish patios or Italian villa gardens (as seen in the Spanish Hall at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool, and the Italianate lake backdrop on the main stage in the Tower Ballroom). Keith replaced Ric Lee on drums after he moved on to greater fame and fortune. Adrian Tilbrook was drummer for The Ivor Kenney Sound at Leicester's Palais de Danse in 1968-69, Mike Miller in the days when he used to perform at the Palais de Danse in Leicester's Humberstone Gate, A recent photo of drummer Adrian Tilbrook who played with The Ivor Kenney Sound at Leicester's Palais de Danse in 1968-69. 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