21 September 2018. Personally, one of my fave records from the Palais dayers was Toni Basil's "Breakaway". 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. I used to go to Hanford & Richards mid forties early fifties. Originally named the Palais de Danse when it opened as a dance hall in 1925, it later became the popular nightclub Ritzy in the late 1980s. Adrian, who now lives in Durham, joined Ivor following a summer season at Torquay. 6d., indicates that dance organisers and commercial dance halls were aiming at a working-class audience. Hanford and Richards was on Trinity Walk. Wednesday evening and Saturday afternoon. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. Used to go to colemans at the weekend, upstairs i think, we would just walk round and round and round, crazy. Fig. For more detail see Nott, Going to the Palais, chapter 1. Sound system was dodgy and times, but the tunes were still good. Special thanks to Dr Julian Holder whose sterling work in editing improved this piece immeasurably. 30 The Rivoli, Brockley, and the Ritz, Manchester, are both recognised for their special interest as listed buildings. One record that always reminds me of the Palais on a Monday Night was Jackie Edwards - Feel So Bad, this was way back in the late 60's and early 70's. Average weekly money wages rose from 1 12s. 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! 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. By 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. They changed their name ten years after they started. 34750. Last saw Pete and Chris about 8 years ago coming out from Forest. Henry Holmes Dawson (18771964) seemingly worked with Thraves only on the palais, as he was in a London-based partnership with H.W. People of different classes did attend the Nottingham Palais, but they did not necessarily mix. I love the Palais for some of the most endearing and enduring friendships I have ever made. I like all of the above - except, Cobblestone is shite! Popular acts to appear at the Palais included Jimmy Crawford and the Ravens. 14. The building which housed the Horse and jockey Is still there, the stained glasswork above the door also I believe still in situ. I do have a strong memory of seeing Jimmy James & The Vagabonds at The Palais. 10. I love the Palais for introducing me to the first girl who would ever break my heart and putting me off rum for life. Then the Palais again, then Oceana, and currently Pryzm. 5). Building began in the city's Frogmore Street in 1963 and was completed in 1966. Nothing of the brutish thug looks which so typifies the modern day equivalent. The dances performed there were the height of fashion no outdated sequence dances or polkas for Hammersmith, but foxtrots, quicksteps and the modern waltz. 56 The Builder, 14 November 1924, pp. Happy days mate. 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. As contemporaries noted, a principal function of the dance hall was to offer an escape. There was a small area called "The Bali Hi". I started going in spring 1980. Hi John, yes great days, wonderful memories of our younger days. 71 Architect and Building News, 19 July 1961, pp. He said: I dont recall a specific male vocalist, but keyboard player Ivor and lead guitarist Will did some singing. 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. Nottingham, Family, He also remembered well-known drummer Harry Ovenall, who had flirted with fame with Leicester groups The Farinas and Family. Seen you pop up on a few of Coop's images now and again. 60 Nottingham Evening Post, 9 February 1929, p. 5. 4).Footnote 36 The interior design (on the right) was a chinoiserie fantasy employing the contemporary fashion for oriental motifs. Suprised not to have crossed paths again recently. Artists from Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England. 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. Virtually all the surveys of the period suggest the same. Richard Kemp, Alan Bakewell.no doubt there's a few more I've forgotten. 78 Carl Heimann cited in Anon., Stepping Out (London, 1940), p. 54. I did like it when everyone shoved there arms up in the chorus! 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. www.ten-years-after.com and www.alvinlee.de. 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. 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. 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". The Its Blackpool venue (Fig. I used to work part time evenings in the bar at the Palais during the 1960s. I used to love the deserted streets. In the post-war period, following the shortages and restrictions of the so-called age of austerity, Britain emerged into a period of sustained and widespread prosperity. 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. Blackpool Locarno, one of Mecca's new multi-purpose entertainment venues, 1965 (Simon Mallett/public domain). 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. Conversions were common not only in the early days of dance-hall construction (around 191823), but also in its closing days (195560). The main dance hall with a floor of 105 feet (32 m) by 85 feet (26 m) which accommodated 600 dancers. Always enjoyed it in there back in 1969. Finally Hockley was left behind and the Palais loomed into view in all her magnificence and glory. 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'. 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. Hale, Matthew "Other vocal duties were carried out by bass guitarist Fran Black, who had played with the famous all-ladies Ivy Benson band. The Palais de Danse, Nottingham. I met my wife to be at the Palais in 1959. 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. Meanwhile, sitters out and balcony watchers (always a significant proportion of the dance-hall crowd) provided a constant background accompaniment with their gossip, horseplay and chatter.Footnote 95, Movement, another key sensory experience of the dance hall, was vital to the liberty and freedom it symbolised. Your first impression is of the red glow of the room red walls, predominantly red carpets, orange and red lights [] The room is crowded. Fig. Often went there for a couple of beers before going over the road to the Palais. It was really the Good Old days. Keith replaced Ric Lee on drums after he moved on to greater fame and fortune. Beginning as a practical necessity of separating the musicians from the dancers, the bandstand developed into a distinctive architectural feature. 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. Wendy Northern Soul Cinema Theatre Vaudeville Theatres Auditorium Courtesy Opera House An Article from arthurlloyd.co.uk. Horse and Jockey, is it still there? Then I received a call to join Val Doonicans backing band, the John Currie Quartet, full-time. The Jubilee Hall, which was the Co-op, and the Corporation Hall. During the Second World War it was requisitioned 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. 84 The Stage, 10 August 1961, p. 5, and Nathan, P., ed., CLH says The Collected Observations, Instructions and Philosophies of C.L. 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. 91 Yorkshire Evening Post, 21 July 1964, p. 7. 24 Duncan, Andrew, Hammersmith's Palaces of Pleasure, Hammersmith and Fulham Historic Buildings Group Newsletter, 12 (Spring 2005), p. 4Google Scholar. 17. A few years later Ric Lee joined the well known rock band Ten years After and actually played at the world famous Woodstock festival. Yes I was a little naive at 16-17. *. From the 1920s to 1960, there were three main types of dance hall. 1821Google Scholar. Accordingly, owners invested heavily in their dance floors and updated, renovated or replaced them at regular intervals. "useRatesEcommerce": false 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. BTW is M Raynor any relation to Beryl Raynor who I worked with at Ladybrook Primary School in 1961? A strange but belting instrumental. Exact figures for the numbers of dance halls built are hard to come by. It had a small revolving circular dance floor. Very interesting to read, I knew Freddie and Adela as uncle and aunt, great close friends, father Tug was on police duty with Gordon Ingham of the Forest Town undertakers, father met mum, and as they say its history, Adela married twice, Cyril Palmer visited Adela in her final weeks. 17).Footnote 83 The rococo-style mirrors had lights above with tasselled fabric lampshades, and sconces in between. There was a small area called 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. Not now but used to be, Cycling C.T.C.,Badminton,Judo and Karate,Holidays,Dancing modern at first then old time and sequence. 4142Google Scholar, 108. Funnily enough I did a small piece on the Palais for my SouledOn Soul Facebook page a few days ago A lot of emmotional connections with that place for reasons you'll see below, "Through these doors pass some of the most beautiful girls in the world". Hopefully see you sooner rather than later. 79, 85. Went to see Sons and Lovers at The Venue (Potters) at Rainworth last Saturday. The interior of the Nottingham Palais (Fig. Palais De Danse, Lower Parliament Street, Nottingham Rotating dance floor at the Palais! You've brought even more memories flooding back with the CB thing. 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. 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 really liked Tommy a lot. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Your email address will not be published. 84345. Saw Gene Vincent, Rocking Berries, Barron Knights, Mike Berry there and many other bands, Sunday night was the best time. 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). 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. 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. dances at the Clinton Rooms on Thurland St.,.Saturday evenings were O.K but Wednesday nights were known as grab a Granny night. 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. 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. I still have that velvet bow tie locked away in a box of keepsakes and memories. DM3a. 44 Architectural Journal, 26 February 1930, pp. In London, the Grafton Galleries, the Wharncliffe Rooms, the Portman Rooms, the Savoy Hotel and the Princess Galleries were popular locations for society dances before the First World War and served as models for the new building type.Footnote 14 Following the war, fashionable restaurants and hotels continued to expand their dancing facilities, as new dances from across the Atlantic captured the public imagination. 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 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. 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. 1934), personal communication, Dundee, 11 March 2011. Good times. The so-called dance craze spread rapidly. My late father Tug organised one event, it was through this that I knew Uncle Fred and Aunt Adela, I heard of this from Adela and others. 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. 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. 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 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. Dance halls provided an architecture of optimism, hope and modernity, and their style and function represented a democratisation of pleasure and the emergence of a more liberal social and political culture in Britain. The New Bristol Centre was perhaps the zenith of these multi-purpose buildings. 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. 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. Clear editor. Even got "Paper Lace" - Billy don't be a hero & The night Chicago died.What happened to them I wonder? Render date: 2023-01-18T17:37:19.143Z 2019. I used to go to the Palais twice a week, 1956/7. The line-up of the orchestra had changed, also the name Carmen Sylva (for his orchestra) vanished. 89 Dancing Times (October 1931), pp. 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. 74 Jones, Stephen G., Workers at Play: A Social and Economic History of Leisure 19181939 (London, 1986), p. 15Google Scholar. 16). 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. "T, 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. Any reccomends? On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. One of my mates actually hit it off with a young lady and did eventually marry her and still was, up to a couple of years ago. 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. Enhancing the escapism of the dance hall were the crucial sensory pleasures it provided. Probably our most regular gig was the New Cross Inn, Sutton. 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. Can anyone remember Reg Guest Trio and Ian King Trio? 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. I entered into a singing competition they use to run and I won. The Palais De Danse, Upper Parliament Street. 45 Dancing Times (September 1929), p. 551. Again all tunes that for me mate are Station road memories. On their first trip into Nottingham he and a group of other airmen enquired where the action was. Even got "Paper Lace" - Billy don't be a hero & The night Chicago died.What happened to them I wonder? 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