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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. 4).Footnote 36 The interior design (on the right) was a chinoiserie fantasy employing the contemporary fashion for oriental motifs. Hostname: page-component-75cd96bb89-t9pvx The site became vacant when Nottingham Prison was demolished. 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. Common locations were town halls, assembly rooms and church halls, but public dances were also held frequently in swimming baths, department stores, political clubs, hotels and restaurants. 96 See Nott, J., Contesting Popular Dancing and Dance Music During the 1920s, Cultural and Social History, 10.3 (2013), pp. 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. Has data issue: true 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. If I remember Monday Night was for a younger crowd and we were always trying to get in the Bali Hi downstairs. Remnants of this approach to atmospherics could be seen in some dance halls as late as the 1950s and 1960s, despite the more functional Contemporary style taking its place. Above the columns was a frieze of painted glass panels depicting Chinese scenes, and brightly coloured silk lanterns were hung around and across the dance floor. 95 MOA, WC, 48/C, Observations of Saturday Night, 3 April 1937, pp. 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'. 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. It was owned by the Mecca Leisure Group. 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 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. "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. 36 Dancing World (AugustSeptember 1921), p. iv. Started in 78/9 I guess. People of different classes did attend the Nottingham Palais, but they did not necessarily mix. Funny how you both mention Love On A Mountain Top. 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. Yep, a lot of those records later released on Grapevine and Destiny, Lover - Delites, She Said Goodbye - Billy Hambric, "Palais Stomp" The Champion will always remind me of Notts. When we werent dancing there we were probably at the Cavendish. Wednesday evening and Saturday afternoon. I remember Love on amountain top being a big spin too. Fast forward to 1978. Nov 21, 2013 - This Pin was discovered by Keith Lenthall Wells. See also Ward, Colin and Hardy, Dennis, Goodnight campers! 63 The Builder, 24 September 1937, p. 544. Much of my Northern Soul early life centered around the Palais All Dayers, mid to late seventies. [2] It was designed by the Nottingham architectural practice of Evans, Clark and Woollatt for W. A. Walker at a cost of 30,000. 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. Your email address will not be published. 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. 4145CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Ultimately parquet blocks, which could be arranged in multiple directions, provided the best flooring for fixed dance floors.Footnote 20, Perhaps the most important consideration in the construction of dance floors was the ability of the surface to absorb and dissipate energy. The different colours combined with different dance moves, tempos and music to alter the mood of the dance floor. He also remembered well-known drummer Harry Ovenall, who had flirted with fame with Leicester groups The Farinas and Family. 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). The democratisation of pleasure that dance halls represented is nowhere better illustrated than in the varied social profile of the Hammersmith Palais's customers. 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. 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The The aspirational nature of the building was further reflected in the various facilities provided. You've brought even more memories flooding back with the CB thing. 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. 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. Our first opportunity to assess the size of the queue and who we could spot. It had a small revolving circular dance floor. One record that stands out for me at the Palais is Lester Tipton, this won't change. Nottstalgia Nottingham Forums Accordingly, owners invested heavily in their dance floors and updated, renovated or replaced them at regular intervals. Sound system was dodgy and times, but the tunes were still good. The Crystal Palace, a few yards to the right on the corner of Parliament St.was The Corner Pin and lower down Clumber St. was the (Red) Lion, Co;emans was on a tiny sidestreet called Maypole Yard. 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. Nite Owl Leicester,dungeon And Beachcomber Nottingham. More Info Running Horse 202-204 Alfreton Road Conrads Chopins 509-511 Alfreton Road Skyy Bar 511a Alfreton Road Stork Club (2) Blueprint Feature Flags: { 7), designed by Clement Stretton and George Nott and opened in 1926, drew particular praise from The Builder for its elegant arcaded faade with neoclassical swag decoration.Footnote 47 The Astoria Palais de Danse in Bolton (Fig. 81 TWA, DT.Tur/4/AG1859, Mayfair Ballroom, Newcastle Ticket Hall (1961). 52 Nottingham Evening Post, 10 September 1924, p. 5. 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". 27 TWA, DT.Tur/4/AG1833/d, Mayfair Ballroom, Newcastle Stage (1961). 89 Dancing Times (October 1931), pp. One thing I noticed was a couple of ex chart Northern sounds that had been re-activated and played to a packed dance floor. The Hammersmith Palais de Danse, in its last years simply named Hammersmith Palais, was a dance hall and entertainment venue in Hammersmith, London, England that operated from 1919 until 2007. 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. Published online by Cambridge University Press: Handsome corner entrance to the Astoria Palais de Danse, Bolton, 1928 (Bolton News/Newsquest Photos), Although the construction of purpose-built dance halls declined from the 1930s, it did not end, and a second wave occurred in the late 1950s and early 1960s. 67 See Roma Fairley, Come Dancing Miss World (London, 1966), and more generally Esher, Lionel, A Broken Wave: The Rebuilding of England 19401980 (London, 1981)Google Scholar. The Locarno, Stevenage, which was completed the same year for a slightly more modest 150,000, was designed by Leonard Vincent, the chief architect of Stevenage Development Corporation. My name may be published alongside the comment on the website, but my e-mail address will not be published. 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. 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. May 14, 2012 In 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. Hi to all interested in The Mansfields of the early and mid 60s. As contemporaries noted, a principal function of the dance hall was to offer an escape. 6). Patrons of different classes were often segregated by temporal and spatial means. up to 2s. 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. for this article. A waft of hot air, the rhythmic throb of the band, the hiss of feet on the ballroom floor assail you. 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. Celestial effects were common, with thousands of bulbs creating ceilings full of sparkling stars. E.g Love On A Mountain Top (with some solid clapping) and Everything's Gonna Be Alright. 9. No other public space offered the chance to display such a wide range of movement for so many people. Dancing had been enjoyed socially long before the twentieth century, but after the First World War people fell in love with it as never before. The precious metal is now periodically used in dental golds and other dental metals. We still have lots of friends in the Mansfield area. My son carries Freddies name (Fitzgerald) and my daughter is named (Adele). I remember the Palais when the most popular performers were Johnny Gold & The Sovereigns and The Newtones. 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. The lighting comprised a series of large exotic lamps in translucent glass, decorated with a mixture of Art Deco and oriental patterns to resemble stylised Chinese lanterns, supplemented by the dramatic use of changing coloured spotlights focused on the dance-floor fountain. Raymond, Graham 70 Jeremy, and Gould, Caroline, Coventry: The Making of a Modern City 193973 (Swindon, 2016), pp. Fig. On its growth in northern English towns in 1920, the Cheltenham Chronicle commented: Dancing, with the pictures and football, fill in all the non-working hours in our great manufacturing towns, and, as a consequence, dancing masters not only teach the young how to step, but provide handsome dancing halls for them.Footnote 2, By 1938 it was estimated that around 100 million admissions were made to dances every year, and the figure doubled by 1953.Footnote 3 The dancing halls that sprung up to cater for this unprecedented demand developed into unique social spaces and a distinctive new building type of the twentieth century. Well it was a Christmas party being held for all the children of the staff who worked at the Palais. Haven't heard it in ages, probably since the Palais!! 53 The Builder, 14 November 1924, p. 759. 45 Dancing Times (September 1929), p. 551. Artists from Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England. The last I heard (Mind you this was mid 90's before my sojourn to lands foreign,) they were still going in one way shape or form . Blackpool Locarno, one of Mecca's new multi-purpose entertainment venues, 1965 (Simon Mallett/public domain). Excellent harmonies. 19 The Alternative Dance, Alternative/Indie Rock, Edmund de Waal: 2010s - 2020s 35 Duncan, Hammersmith's Palaces of Pleasure, p. 4. Went mad on the floor. Smithford Way, on which the Locarno was located, was pedestrianised and multi-storey car parks were constructed close by. If any body remembers me Mansfield, Blidworth, Rainworth areas ladies and gents Hello. When we got there we would amble down from King Street to Broadmarsh where I would meet with my soul gal back then (Sharon Dring if anyone remembers). My lass went a few times late seventies early eighties. Postcard view of the Chinese themed interior, Hammersmith Palais, 1921 (author's private collection). What happened to them? The building opened as a palais de danse to replace Victoria Halls in Talbot Street. The Jubilee Hall, which was the Co-op, and the Corporation Hall. At no time before had so many people danced so regularly and attracted so much contemporary interest and debate. 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. On Sunday 25th March 2018 I was at a surprise birthday party for my cousin, Keith Woodcock. Great tune. I wonder if anyone remembers us now after all these years ? Started my time on the scene in 78 at the Palais. Juni begann Beyonc den dritten Teil ihrer Tour in den USA und beendete diesen mit einem viertgigen Auftritt im Encore Las Vegas Finally Hockley was left behind and the Palais loomed into view in all her magnificence and glory. The architect commissioned to make the conversion was Bertie Crewe (d. 1937), one of the country's leading theatre architects, who had designed over a hundred theatres, music halls and cinemas throughout Britain, including the Piccadilly and Shaftesbury theatres in London and the Palace Theatre, Manchester.Footnote 34 Booker and Mitchell's decision to employ an architect of national standing was indicative of their determination to make an architectural statement as a way of enhancing the reputation of their new venture. Off we went into town. 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) 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. Keith Woodcock from Edgehill Grove M/W now lives in Sheringham after a very successful career in the music business. 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. Would I be right in saying Pete Waterman put in an appearance or two? anyway back to Colemans, we would meet at the pub round the corner, turned into a amusment arcade. I do need to take in an East Anglian event. had a good atmosphere as well. Even Sam played it at the Locarno on more than one occasion. I spent many happy hours at the Palais in my teens, late 1950s early 1960s . Hot Legs are basically the band 10cc, comprising Eric Stewart, Lol Creme, Kevin Godley and Graham Gouldman. I remember the Jbirds and also my late husband Johnny Gold playing there. Last heard Gee Baby at Warwick Soul Club;I'd asked the DJ if he'd got it, and he said "not here", but went home to get it between sets, Took my Johnny Ross to the Night Owl in Brum last weekend for their 1st Anniversary, and after MUCH nagging they finally played it at 3:15 in the morning. "Other vocal duties were carried out by bass guitarist Fran Black, who had played with the famous all-ladies Ivy Benson band. 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. I seem to remember the TED HEATH ORCHESTRA AND SYD LAWRENCE AND HIS ORCHESTRA playing at the Palais during the Sixties but I may be Wrong . Two records I remember from there were, Love of the common people Nikki Thomas, The latter people would sit in the floor in front of each other sitting between the person behinds, legs, and rock backward and forward and side to side. 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. 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. Most ballrooms included balconies around the main dance floor where patrons could promenade and watch the proceedings below, while allowing the considerable airflow required for what could be a strenuous activity. Without this, dancing could be uncomfortable and tiring and particularly wearing on the knees and ankles. 3. 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. 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