By this time our small gathering of Gedling lads had certainly grown in size. Wednesday evening and Saturday afternoon. He said: I dont recall a specific male vocalist, but keyboard player Ivor and lead guitarist Will did some singing. I still have that velvet bow tie locked away in a box of keepsakes and memories. 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. 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. 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. 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. I went by the nickname "Bonk" back then if that rings any bells. This phase ended in tears after police intervention. History. 5). I featured on a few backing vocals too until someone actually heard me!. We also played the Festival Hall, Kirkby as well as many pubs and clubs in the area. In the Locarno, Bradford, also opened in 1961, the Ladies' Boudoir included 45 full-length mirrors and was decorated in a Georgian style. Used to have aquick drink in the Horse & Jockey just across the road back in those days., as did many Palais-De-Dance fans. The Palais de Danse is Nottinghams most famous nightclub. 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. Again all tunes that for me mate are Station road memories. Probably our most regular gig was the New Cross Inn, Sutton. 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. We reverted back to the name Our Young. Enhancing the escapism of the dance hall were the crucial sensory pleasures it provided. 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. 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). 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. Guest malc gibbons, November 8, 2008, Soul Source - A Soul music magazine One sprung dance-floor system that came to dominate from the 1920s onwards was the Valtor floor, developed by Francis Morton and Company of London. Worked in the downstairs bar. Between 1914 and 1938, the average working week fell from 54 to 48 hours. No other public space offered the chance to display such a wide range of movement for so many people. 12 French, Hilary, Glamorous Spaces: Public Ballrooms and Dance Halls, 18901950, Interiors, 6.1 (2015), pp. 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. E.g Love On A Mountain Top (with some solid clapping) and Everything's Gonna Be Alright. Postcard view of the Chinese themed interior, Hammersmith Palais, 1921 (author's private collection). 9) featured a Canadian maple dance floor, a revolving bandstand, elegant boudoirs for ladies and stag rooms for gentlemen, a club room with lounge and bars, refreshment bars and buffets, stepped balconies with tables, an open-air dancing terrace, and a starry ceiling over the dance floor incorporating hundreds of tiny coloured lights.Footnote 51, Fig. 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. 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. had a good atmosphere as well. 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. Often went there for a couple of beers before going over the road to the Palais. Just searched "The Spy" on Youtube. 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. 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. 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. Previously, a change of band involved halting the dancing while equipment, instruments and players were moved on and off the stage. Used to go to colemans at the weekend, upstairs i think, we would just walk round and round and round, crazy. 70 Jeremy, and Gould, Caroline, Coventry: The Making of a Modern City 193973 (Swindon, 2016), pp. Then we would amble up through Hockley. Elvis Presley Fans Dance On A Traffic Island Outside The Palais De Danse Hall in Nottingham. The site became vacant when Nottingham Prison was demolished. Horse and Jockey, is it still there? top palias sounds well there's been quiet a few but here go's. On Sunday 25th March 2018 I was at a surprise birthday party for my cousin, Keith Woodcock. Cliff Bennett is very much alive and well and performed in Nottingham's Old Market Square at the Nottingham Pulse festival last summer. This transformation in dance culture came about through a combination of increasing prosperity and greater leisure time for large parts of the population, a relaxation of social mores concerning dress and social interaction between men and women, and transatlantic cultural developments. The Music Hall and Theatre Often went to the Monday night dance at the YMCA on Shakespeare street. } 10) was high. 43956CrossRefGoogle Scholar. One record that stands out for me at the Palais is Lester Tipton, this won't change. It was the regular venue for the South Nottinghamshire Hunt Ball, the Robin Hood Ball, the local Conservative Party Ball and various large company dances, all of which attracted local dignitaries and leading businessmen. Would I be right in saying Pete Waterman put in an appearance or two? Good times. Palais De Danse, Lower Parliament Street, Nottingham Rotating dance floor at the Palais! Dayglo socks were all the rage then but my parents did not approve of them. 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. 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. We set up camp, we liberated the floor with a dosing of talc, we were joined by our mates later on and there we stayed until 10pm. Beginning as a practical necessity of separating the musicians from the dancers, the bandstand developed into a distinctive architectural feature. 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. 71 Architect and Building News, 19 July 1961, pp. Loved the Palais in the late 50s and early 60s. I have 100's of sixties music on my iPod and listen to those memories as I drive around on the tractor. 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. It was soon appreciated that boards should be laid in the direction of travel of the dancers as they progressed around the dance floor in a circular fashion. We have two adult sons and weve all visited Mansfield on several occasions. Dimmed lighting enhanced the power of the imagination, while coloured lights were used to create an ever-changing visual experience. [3], On 12 May 1940 three men were discovered inside the building by a police officer, and charged with breaking and entering[4] and stealing goods worth over 200 (equivalent to 11,600 in 2021). Your email address will not be published. It is an odd omission, as the architecture of pleasure has generated a growing body of scholarship. 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. 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. 28 Allen, Carl, London Gig Venues (Stroud, 2016), pp. Then the Palais again, then Oceana, and currently .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. Palais De Danse , Lower Parliament Street , Nottingham 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. 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 "useRatesEcommerce": false Still doing cabaret. 3 Paul Holt, Daily Express, 16 November 1938, p. 16, and Economist, 14 February 1953, p. 401. 12), opened in 1965, included a Locarno, a bowling alley (run by Mecca's onetime rival Top Rank), an additional modern music dance floor (the Highland Room), several bars, snooker halls and even a gym.Footnote 68, Fig. 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. Purpose-built dance halls had a confident street presence that was not always the case with conversions. Then I received a call to join Val Doonicans backing band, the John Currie Quartet, full-time. 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. 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. 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. Rob Smith was forever hammering it but it just sounded so good blasting through that sound system. Happy days mate. Even Sam played it at the Locarno on more than one occasion. 99103, and Architectural Review (June 1961), pp. 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. Wollaston offered several anonymous offers for anyone who could isolate palladium, so the elements discovery was credited to Richard Chenevix in 1803. 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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. Always enjoyed it in there back in 1969. Bandstands became highly decorative. We moved down to Kent in the late 80s. It was known as Greyfriars Hall and was opened by the Lord Mayor of Nottingham, Walter Wessen, on 8 October 1929. 79, 85. I gathered you had moved down south as it were. . History. Dance halls were constructed as dream worlds where working-class men and women could be transported from the reality of their lives by vibrant colour and human interaction, liberating movement and rich, emotive music, sounds and smells. The hundreds of permanent dance halls in operation in Britain between 1918 and 1965 represented a significant expansion of the leisure industry in an age of growing mass entertainment. But most of all I love the Palais because I got see my dad. It was designed by the Nottingham architectural practice of Evans, Clark and Woollatt for W. A. Walker at a cost of 30,000. I worked at The Sherwood Rooms part time for a while, firstly as a Bingo checker then as a ballroom assistant, just standing around in evening dress being helpful a really cushy job. As a result of these requirements, large public halls, transport sheds or former factory buildings such as mills proved popular for conversion.Footnote 24 The Hammersmith Palais emerged from a former tram depot, the Carlton in Rochdale (opened in 1934) was located in a disused mill, and the Bury Palais (which opened around the same time) brought back to life a disused railway engine shed.Footnote 25. 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. 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. In an era of full employment and job security, real wages rose by 20 per cent between 1951 and 1959. The dances performed there were the height of fashion no outdated sequence dances or polkas for Hammersmith, but foxtrots, quicksteps and the modern waltz. 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. My hometown regular all dayer venue it's the place where the first Sunday in very month we would go and offer worship and praise to the great god Northern Soul. 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. And heres a modern simulation of what the looked and sounded like in those days? My future wife, Sylvia Chesterman was from Alfreton and I was born in Mansfield many years ago! 30 The Rivoli, Brockley, and the Ritz, Manchester, are both recognised for their special interest as listed buildings. In 1984, it was acquired by Barry Noble and adopted its former name Astoria.[6]. Innovation led to a unique architectural feature the sprung dance floor. Great tune. Fig. 199204Google Scholar. *. The seats were always taken as when someone got up one of the walkers would sit down. 1021Google Scholar. 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. 75962. 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. 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 :-)). for this article. A few years later Ric Lee joined the well known rock band Ten years After and actually played at the world famous Woodstock festival. 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. 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. 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. 63 The Builder, 24 September 1937, p. 544. Hopefully see you sooner rather than later. Exterior of the Leicester Palais, a purpose-built dance hall, 1926 (author's private collection), Fig. Last saw Pete and Chris about 8 years ago coming out from Forest. I heard he had some problems after dropping off the scene. Many of the Mecca dance halls became bingo halls. The band members were Keith Williams (guitar), Stuart Lane (guitar), Mick Hodgkinson (bass guitar & sax) and Ric Lee (drums). Anyone remember any of these bands? Crewe's wooden framework, which served to define the dance floor and divide up the space, mimicked the architecture of a Chinese pagoda, with lacquered columns and ornamental fretwork. We married in February 1961 and emigrated to New Zealand in October 1962. Some great tunes you put up there :-), hi martyn long time no see , i now live in huntingdon near st ives been down here for 9 years now occassionaly venture back to notts . Hintergrund. The larger of the two, the Majestic, was decorated to represent a mosque, with prayer mats hanging from the walls and a star-painted ceiling.Footnote 88 The exoticism continued in the names of the lounges the Alcazar Lounge and the Baghdad Lounge. 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. I really liked Tommy a lot. 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. Love reading this kind of thread, thanks! 6. During the Second World War it was requisitioned by the Army as a dining area for the troops stationed in the town. 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. In planning terms, it also reflected the thinking behind the Buchanan report on Traffic in Towns of 1963, as the precinct was designed on the principle of separating pedestrians and cars. 2. 40 Modern Dance and Dancer (March 1938), p. 13, and Munro, Dancing Mad. 88 See Horace Richards, Dancing Throughout Britain, a series of six reports printed in Popular Music and Dancing Weekly, 22 November to 29 December 1934. Originally named the Palais de Danse when it opened 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. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings. At the Locarno, Bradford, 35,000 Italian-made light bulbs were used on its blue painted ceiling which, when lit on their own, gave the impression of a starlit sky at night.Footnote 93, Along with these visual delights, the dance hall would immerse its patrons into an intense, vibrating world of sound. 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. 24 Duncan, Andrew, Hammersmith's Palaces of Pleasure, Hammersmith and Fulham Historic Buildings Group Newsletter, 12 (Spring 2005), p. 4Google Scholar. I love kids and old people - because children have not yet learned to lie - and old people have nothing to lie about. 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