Fig. 15. Loved the Palais in the late 50s and early 60s. Wednesday evening and Saturday afternoon. 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 "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. 52 Nottingham Evening Post, 10 September 1924, p. 5. No Sunday shopping throngs back then, just a feeling of having the city to ourselves. The different colours combined with different dance moves, tempos and music to alter the mood of the dance floor. 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. Postcard view of the interior of the dance hall at Pawtuxet, Rhode Island, 1911 (author's private collection). Conversions were common not only in the early days of dance-hall construction (around 191823), but also in its closing days (195560). [2] It was designed by the Nottingham architectural practice of Evans, Clark and Woollatt for W. A. Walker at a cost of 30,000. 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. Anyone with any memories? 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 There was a small area called Love reading this kind of thread, thanks! Hi Bill North yes remember Sons and Lovers 1969. And what about Lainie Hill "Time Marches On". 8. Happy days. 99104. 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 :-)). Although dance halls were comparatively egalitarian spaces, this quality should not be overstated. 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. Raymond, Graham 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. And heres a modern simulation of what the looked and sounded like in those days? This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. You think I get spare time after managing this lot? I used to go to Hanford & Richards mid forties early fifties. I love the Palais for some of the most endearing and enduring friendships I have ever made. 56 The Builder, 14 November 1924, pp. The interior of the Nottingham Palais (Fig. In the Locarno, Bradford, also opened in 1961, the Ladies' Boudoir included 45 full-length mirrors and was decorated in a Georgian style. The strike action by RCN members is expected to lead to delays for planned operations at the trust affected, Investigation launched as man is injured after getting trapped between truck and trailer, He has been taken to hospital to be treated for his injuries, Revolution in Leicester to close two days a week amid rising costs, 'Inadequate' GP surgery's delays to cancer referrals and patient care slammed, One person waited seven months for "urgent" blood tests. He once came to our house in Rainworth to see my brother and gave me a pair of his drumsticks, I wish I still had them. 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. they are all faves of mine too.i love the tunes from "The Palais", youve got great taste mate ! I used the title as my "handle" when CB's were big only to find out that everyone thought I was a copper just not so. 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. For this reason there are many records that for me, are Palais records. 1 Dundee Evening Telegraph, 7 January 1919, p. 7. Particularly common in the 1920s were conversions of former roller-skating rinks, which were ideal, given their large dimensions and height. I don't actually remember it being played. I didn't even recognise them until Jarv sayed hello to them. It also had dedicated band rooms for the musicians. 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. Now in those days doormen weren't the breed they are today. 2 Cheltenham Chronicle, 18 December 1920, p. 8. Performer: Wayne King and his Orch.Writer: Sid PhillipsFox Trot.Digitized at 78 revolutions per minute. Colemans was our first outing at the gentle age of 15-16 to actually mix and dance (if you were brave enough) with the opposite sex, I never was, so we used to do the circuit around and around, checking out the talent and dreaming ! 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. Used to love it. 4).Footnote 36 The interior design (on the right) was a chinoiserie fantasy employing the contemporary fashion for oriental motifs. 2. A dance hall and several pubs would guarantee its use after the shops had closed for the day. My first encounter with the Palais came about 1971. Each night of the week targeted a different audience. 9298. , I still remember MK shouting from the steps and then whilst walking the queue checking us all out .. BIG and fond memories of the venue I cut my teeth in. 26 Architectural Journal, 26 February 1930, pp. Later on until a few year ago we were into sequence dancing and used to go to Bestwood Miners Welfare,, Calverton Miners Welfare, Gedling Miners Welfare and others. Discover (and save!) However, this was a temporary structure, not a permanent dance hall. One of the first was introduced at Mecca's flagship hall, the Locarno in Streatham, south London, in 1931.Footnote 26 Its purpose was twofold. Both moved on from the band around 1967 to have successful careers in business. And with every step forward the laughing and shouting of teenagers in baggy trousers and circle skirts filling the empty air, the excitement building. *. All About the SOUL. 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. 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. What a pair of real gents they were and full of interesting recollections of their time with the band. 4142Google Scholar, 108. 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. It began with new musical styles: ragtime, then jazz. Worked in the downstairs bar. notts palias my home town venue first went in 74 dj.s of the day were colin curtis , ian levine, dave evison a young johnathan woodliffe , john poole also and several other that slip my mind, must be an age thing. Illustrating the grace and finesse of the art of classical dance, the frieze was likely a considered choice addressing the moral panic engendered in some parts of society by the perceived ugliness of modern social dances such as the Charleston and Black Bottom.Footnote 57. 95 MOA, WC, 48/C, Observations of Saturday Night, 3 April 1937, pp. He opened its first dance hall, Sherry's, in Brighton. Not now but used to be, Cycling C.T.C.,Badminton,Judo and Karate,Holidays,Dancing modern at first then old time and sequence. 75962. Are nurses striking in Leicestershire this week? Such features were not unique to Newcastle. We were privileged to meet and talk at length with Stuart Lane and Keith Williams (both guitar players in the group). Has data issue: true Popular acts to appear at the Palais included Jimmy Crawford and the Ravens. At the bottom of the sheet it mentions INSIST ON A UNION BAND FOR YOUR DANCES! 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. I have a long and fond relationship with the old Notts Palais. During the Second World War it was requisitioned by the Army as a dining area for the troops stationed in the town. Learnt to jive there! The floor was both one of the principal technical challenges for the architect of a dance hall and a principal attraction for customers. 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. 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. 81 TWA, DT.Tur/4/AG1859, Mayfair Ballroom, Newcastle Ticket Hall (1961). Can anyone remember Reg Guest Trio and Ian King Trio? anyway back to Colemans, we would meet at the pub round the corner, turned into a amusment arcade. .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. During the Second World War it was requisitioned From the 1920s to 1960, there were three main types of dance hall. Seizing on the popularity of these venues among the growing numbers of working-class holidaymakers on the coast, entrepreneurs established dance halls up and down the country. I entered into a singing competition they use to run and I won. By With a revolving bandstand, a second band could set up in the background while the first was still performing and be brought to the audience at the press of a switch. 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. 22 Morton, Francis Junior, and Co, Sprung Floors for Dancing (London, c. 1925), p. 2Google Scholar. 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. The third and final type of dance hall was built as part of a multi-purpose complex. Went to see Sons and Lovers at The Venue (Potters) at Rainworth last Saturday. The reported intention was to create an exotic escape-world that lent itself to an immersive experience for its patrons.Footnote 37, Fig. A few couples sit out talking [] Past them one can see heads sailing past serenely floating (the good dancers) or bobbing jerkily (beginners). 73 Bristol Archives, Planning Department, 62/00864/P_U, 1962. Alongside this was the growth of a highly commercialised leisure industry, which contributed to a new popular culture dominated by transatlantic trends. Horse and Jockey, is it still there? Harry had an amazing drum kit, hand-painted with psychedelic designs. You know that sign really should have been written "Through these doors pass some of the most beautiful SOULS in the world", heres a photo of some of the Palais staff circa 1974. Display as a link instead, 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. Especially in new buildings, which were liable to When we werent dancing there we were probably at the Cavendish. Special thanks to Dr Julian Holder whose sterling work in editing improved this piece immeasurably. The dance programme would usually last for four hours, during which about fifty dances were played.Footnote 94 The bands were skilled at creating appealing programmes of music varied, popular, and of the moment. Our own shrine to all things soul. In its first nine months, it hosted the Original Dixieland Jazz Band on tour from the United States and, subsequently, other visiting American bands, notably Sidney Bechet in 1920.Footnote 38 It also attracted many of the best dance bands in Britain. 13754CrossRefGoogle Scholar. 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. 14. Best two sounds for me that will always be associated with that famous venueare Dena Barnes, If you ever walked out of my life and the brilliant dancer Chubby Checker, You just don't know. 96 See Nott, J., Contesting Popular Dancing and Dance Music During the 1920s, Cultural and Social History, 10.3 (2013), pp. Used to go to colemans at the weekend, upstairs i think, we would just walk round and round and round, crazy. @ MAK - thanks for the kind words and no she was from Cotgrave :-), @ Steve Phillis- I remember you very well. 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. 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. Alternative Dance, Alternative/Indie Rock, Edmund de Waal: 2010s - 2020s http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=3+little+bears+jimi+hendrix&aq=6&oq=3+little+bears. The dances performed there were the height of fashion no outdated sequence dances or polkas for Hammersmith, but foxtrots, quicksteps and the modern waltz. the next time im up that way will be for andy riley's 50 atb steve. 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. Returned to the Palais when I finished working there and remember seeing Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers one night. 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. Its Blackpool venue (Fig. 8889Google Scholar. my memory is going what was the pubs name? 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. 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. It was really the Good Old days. Spotlights playfully danced around the crowded floor, too. I was 9 years old and it was Christmas. From the mid-1960s, dance halls were rapidly replaced by discos and nightclubs, or closed altogether. Happy (but strange) days! 'Hanford and Richards' on, I think, Columber St is something I recall when learning to dance. 83 TWA, DT.Tur/4/AG1833/c, Mayfair Ballroom, Newcastle Powder Room (1961). 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. Keith also told me that Ric Lee is writing a book and once some legal wrangles are sorted it should be published under the title From head stocks to Woodstock. 74 Jones, Stephen G., Workers at Play: A Social and Economic History of Leisure 19181939 (London, 1986), p. 15Google Scholar. Fig. 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. The constraint of the crowded dance floor, for example, demanded a constant process of negotiation. 17 Rose Blincoe, Rochdale, Lancashire, 1991 (personal communication). Nice post Martin I still see Tommy Cragg from time to time the last time I saw Pete Smith was at a Stafford Top of the world allnighter early 80's must look him up see how he's doing I see his brother Chris from time ot time,saw Curly yesterday he don't change mate. Nottingham, Family, The two I remember most at both the Palais and Coleman's were the Malibus - Gee Baby (I Love You), and Johnny Ross and the Soul Explosions' version of I can't Help Myself - a 200mph belter. The democratisation of pleasure that dance halls represented is nowhere better illustrated than in the varied social profile of the Hammersmith Palais's customers. 1) which, designed for mass audiences, reflected the increasing leisure time and money available to large sections of the working class. I remember a young lady called Maggie who won with me, she was a great singer. Between 1914 and 1938, the average working week fell from 54 to 48 hours. 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. Richard Kemp, Alan Bakewell.no doubt there's a few more I've forgotten. Mrz 2009 in Edmonton, Kanada.Der europische Teil der I Am Tour begann am 26. Any reccomends? If any body remembers me Mansfield, Blidworth, Rainworth areas ladies and gents Hello. Every aspect of their design was carefully considered by entrepreneurs who were often at the forefront of the newly emerging leisure industry. One record that stands out for me at the Palais is Lester Tipton, this won't change. As contemporaries noted, a principal function of the dance hall was to offer an escape. 57 For a full discussion of the moral panic associated with dance halls, based on allegations of immorality, misbehaviour from youths and concerns about race, see Nott, Going to the Palais, passim. Not very active now. 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. 3. 7. 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. 18 The expression palais de danse was introduced by the owners to add an air of French sophistication and subsequently came into common usage in Britain. 1934), personal communication, Dundee, 11 March 2011. 87 Richards, Jeffrey, The Age of the Dream Palace: Cinema and Society in Britain, 19301939 (London, 1984), pp. On their first trip into Nottingham he and a group of other airmen enquired where the action was. 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. I have 100's of sixties music on my iPod and listen to those memories as I drive around on the tractor. Powered by Invision Community. I worked at the Palais for many years. Required fields are marked *, I consent to my name and e-mail address being stored along with this comment, and to the website editors communicating with me by e-mail about the comment if necessary. My lass went a few times late seventies early eighties. Not only the dance music, but also people talking, laughing, whispering and of course dancing all created a unique soundscape. 7 We should be careful to exclude from this definition dancing schools and other places where the main purpose was to teach dancing, with public dances put on as a secondary attraction. Even got "Paper Lace" - Billy don't be a hero & The night Chicago died.What happened to them I wonder? Jaybirds most of all or Jaycats or Jail-Breakersor yes The Mansfields willey_dave@yahoo.de, I was with TYA and Ric January 11, 2019 in Osnabrck, Germany. Your link has been automatically embedded. 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 still have that velvet bow tie locked away in a box of keepsakes and memories. 45 Dancing Times (September 1929), p. 551. Exact figures for the numbers of dance halls built are hard to come by. The Palais de Danse on Humberstone Gate, Leicester. Without this, dancing could be uncomfortable and tiring and particularly wearing on the knees and ankles. 3 Paul Holt, Daily Express, 16 November 1938, p. 16, and Economist, 14 February 1953, p. 401. Nottingham is the queen of the Midlands. 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. Restrictions were enforced by dancing skills, or lack thereof, and the etiquette and rules laid down by the venue; and not least the pressure felt under the ever-watchful eyes of the masters of ceremonies, dance-hall staff, friends, peers, even mothers and fathers.Footnote 97. 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. I featured on a few backing vocals too until someone actually heard me!. 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. 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. 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. A few years later Ric Lee joined the well known rock band Ten years After and actually played at the world famous Woodstock festival. This phase ended in tears after police intervention. Sure I remember the manager winding us up, walking along the queue saying if our shoes not polished were not getting in ;-) First place I met Shippo, remember Kempy, Tommy Cragg and Kevin Husbands too, no one would forget Curley of course. "Other vocal duties were carried out by bass guitarist Fran Black, who had played with the famous all-ladies Ivy Benson band. I did like it when everyone shoved there arms up in the chorus! Not just because it's quality but because of the crowds thunderous claps at the right times. 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. 61 Nottingham Evening Post, 9 November 1929, p. 6. 5 Liverpool Record Office, 347/JUS/1/5, Register of Licenses for Music, Singing and Dancing 191926, and Newcastle, Tyne and Wear Archives [hereafter TWA], Newcastle Magistrates Court Collection, MG.Nc 7/4, Licensing Minutes 191735. Rose was a female entrepreneur, who in partnership with her husband established and ran the Calton Dance Hall in Rochdale from the mid-1930s. It's the only time I've heard LOMT played at a dayer or nighter. 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. 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. Now reside in Norwich,Mansfield visit to see family every 6/8weeks Ron Brown. 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. 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