From the mid-1960s, Mecca began creating multi-purpose entertainment venues. 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. The warmth and thrill of dancing cheek to cheek, waist to waist, as desire and passion ebbed and flowed at three beats to the bar, and bodies clasped together while moving gracefully, ungracefully, freed from their workaday sitting and standing, now gliding, gyrating, swaying, bending and shaking together and apart. In Leicester, Nottingham, Manchester and other major towns and cities, entrepreneurs cashed in on the popularity of dance. The interior of the Nottingham Palais (Fig. 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. New dances were formulated to accompany the new music and were deliberately designed for couples (most notably the foxtrot). 15. The Palais De Danse, Upper Parliament Street. Later, in the 1950s, large numbers of redundant cinemas and theatres were converted into dance halls, as dancing outperformed both as a form of entertainment. 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. We can't bring them day's back, but we won't forget em either. 79, 85. Then of course later as we got a bit older there was "Grab a Granny" on a Wednesday Night (Over 21's), boy I have some wonderful memories of the Palais. Then the Palais again, then Oceana, and currently Pryzm. Well it was a Christmas party being held for all the children of the staff who worked at the Palais. "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. The architects were Thraves and Dawson.Footnote 53 Nottingham-based Alfred J. Thraves (18881953) became a prominent architect in the East Midlands area and designed several high-profile buildings in Nottingham, including the City Mission, although he originally made his name as a designer of chapels. never missed a soul do there, from feb 78, until 83 (then the bank hol sunday nights , late 90's). Dimmed lighting enhanced the power of the imagination, while coloured lights were used to create an ever-changing visual experience. 11. Although dance halls were comparatively egalitarian spaces, this quality should not be overstated. 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. Architects enjoyed the possibilities such spaces provided. 11 See Atwell, David, Cathedrals of the Movies (London, 1981)Google Scholar; Eyles, Allen, ABC: The First Name in Entertainment (London, 1993)Google Scholar; Gaumont British Cinemas (London, 1996)Google Scholar; The Granada Theatres (London, 1998)Google Scholar; Odeon Cinemas 1 (London, 2002)Google Scholar; Gray, Richard, Cinemas in Britain: One Hundred Years of Cinema Architecture (London, 2011)Google Scholar; Harwood, Elain, Picture Palaces (London, 1999)Google Scholar. Then the Palais again, then Oceana, and currently Finally got the Malibus. Fig. Always enjoyed it in there back in 1969. 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. 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. It was founded by Carl Heimann, who in 1927 created an offshoot of the parent firm Ye Mecca Cafs. The band members were Keith Williams (guitar), Stuart Lane (guitar), Mick Hodgkinson (bass guitar & sax) and Ric Lee (drums). I dont have an exact date for this but it would be about March/April 1968. In the early 90s the Palais was briefly used as a rave club. Beginning as a practical necessity of separating the musicians from the dancers, the bandstand developed into a distinctive architectural feature. 42 The Builder, 8 March 1929, pp. Between 1918 and 1932, there were nearly thirty cinemas with dancing licences in the city, including the Carlton Super Cinema, the West End Cinema and the Lido Super Cinema.Footnote 66 Dance halls in more elaborate multi-purpose buildings really came into their own in the late 1950s and 1960s as part of the wave of urban redevelopment that swept through the country. I love the Palais for some of the most endearing and enduring friendships I have ever made. Heimann, Joint Chairman, Mecca Ltd, The Age of the Dream Palace: Cinema and Society in Britain, 19301939, Contesting Popular Dancing and Dance Music During the 1920s, Postcard view of the interior of the dance hall at Pawtuxet, Rhode Island, 1911 (author's private collection), Bandstand at the Mayfair, Newcastle, opened in 1961 (Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums), Postcard view of Cricklewood Dance Hall and Skating Rink, 1920s (author's private collection), Exterior and interior of the Hammersmith Palais (illustration from, Postcard view of the Chinese themed interior, Hammersmith Palais, 1921 (author's private collection), Elaborate neon lighting at the Hammersmith Palais, early 1960s, Exterior of the Leicester Palais, a purpose-built dance hall, 1926 (author's private collection), Handsome corner entrance to the Astoria Palais de Danse, Bolton, 1928 (Bolton News/Newsquest Photos), Promotional literature for the Locarno, Stevenage, 1961 (Museum Services, Stevenage, Hertfordshire), Frontage of the Nottingham Palais, showing its illuminated globe, 1925 (Nottingham City Council and picturethepast.org.uk), Interior of the Nottingham Palais, 1925 (Nottingham City Council and picturethepast.org.uk), Blackpool Locarno, one of Mecca's new multi-purpose entertainment venues, 1965 (Simon Mallett/public domain), Postcard view of the entrance tower of the Locarno, Coventry, 1960 (author's private collection), Populist Palatial, postcard view of the rich, colourful interior of the Palais de Danse, Derby, 1923 (author's private collection), Postcard view of aristocratic mural paintings in the vestibule of the Palais de Danse, Derby, 1923 (author's private collection), Luxe-modern, everyday glamour at the Mayfair dance hall, Newcastle, 1961 (Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums), Ladies Boudoir, Mayfair dance hall, Newcastle, 1961 (Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums). Fig. Am in touch with Kev Husbands via Facebook. The History of the British Holiday Camp (London, 1986)Google Scholar. I was 9 years old and it was Christmas. Powered by Invision Community, Fly Fishing, Golf, Gardening, Reading, 1960s Music, Gilbert & Sullivan, Cricket, Notts County, Archery, Railways, Movies, Art, Travel. 9298. Even got "Paper Lace" - Billy don't be a hero & The night Chicago died.What happened to them I wonder? Postcard view of the interior of the dance hall at Pawtuxet, Rhode Island, 1911 (author's private collection). We married in February 1961 and emigrated to New Zealand in October 1962. Great tune. We moved down to Kent in the late 80s. I later appeared there as a performer myself. A few years later Ric Lee joined the well known rock band Ten years After and actually played at the world famous Woodstock festival. 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. Even got "Paper Lace" - Billy don't be a hero & The night Chicago died.What happened to them I wonder? Palais De Danse, Lower Parliament Street, Nottingham Rotating dance floor at the Palais! 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 Feature Flags: { 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 had a great time at the Palais. Can't understand why these aren't played now, they were so BIG in '76. I entered into a singing competition they use to run and I won. 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. The Leeds Locarno also had an Americana food bar and Flamingo coffee bar, all indicative of a popular interest in travel and the exotic. 92 MOA, WC, 48/C, 1938, p. 1. "At the time, Val was the top entertainment personality in the UK and my first concert with him, straight from the Palais, was at the London Palladium, starting a 16-week gig there.. In September 1931, the Nottingham Palais paid more than 1000 laying a new dance floor, and in October 1933 the Hammersmith Palais spent 5000 on a maple floor. Palais De Danse, Lower Parliament Street, Nottingham Rotating dance floor at the Palais! 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 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. There were three bars, one off the dance floor and another two upstairs (itself indicative of a less paternalistic attitude to dance halls up to this point, magistrates had insisted they remain dry). 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. 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. Mike Knight is second from the right and my dad is the chap wearing the party hat, 22nd April 2012 "Notts Palais Crew" by Souled On Soul, on Flickr, And here's a very rare image of the Palais I found after a lot of searching t'internet, nottingham palais by world of andrew woodyatt, on Flickr. 1934), personal communication, Dundee, 11 March 2011. 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. Rose was a female entrepreneur, who in partnership with her husband established and ran the Calton Dance Hall in Rochdale from the mid-1930s. 23. I love the Palais for taking me to a special place on a Monday night once a week and kicking the week off with a bang. Learnt to jive there! 32 See MOA, MDJ, 3/A, C.L. It had a small revolving circular dance floor. Palais de Dance The old Victoria Hall had been taken over by Mr and Mrs HG Roscoe in September 1929 and re-christened the Palais de Danse. I love the Palais for introducing me to the first girl who would ever break my heart and putting me off rum for life. 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. This crowd was going to get bigger as the day progressed. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. They may well haveappeared when they were called Ricky Storm and the Stormcats from 1962. The way in which the space was used also differed according to class. Dancing had a cross-class appeal and yet, by the mid-1920s, it was predominantly an activity of the working and lower-middle classes. However, because dance halls had to be granted music and dancing licences, renewed annually, it is possible to get some sense of their numbers from records held by local licensing authorities, together with other estimates. The budget was large and the quality of the building located on a prime corner site adjacent to the city's busy central market area (Fig. Used to go to colemans at the weekend, upstairs i think, we would just walk round and round and round, crazy. They were brilliant they were on more or less every three months and always went to see them. I heard he had some problems after dropping off the scene. 15 See Godbolt, Jim, A History of Jazz in Britain, 191950 (London, 2005)Google Scholar. Local commentators believed that the building increased the city's status. Started in 78/9 I guess. 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. 199204. 75 Stone, Richard and Rowe, D.A., The Measurement of Consumers Expenditure and Behaviour in the United Kingdom, 19201938: Volume II (Cambridge, 1966)Google Scholar. 65 Cinema-going declined in the mid-1920s during the first wave of interest in dancing. 1021Google Scholar. 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. The Palais De Dance with Jack O'Boyle. 31 Blackburn Times, 20 February 1959, p. 3. Elaborate neon lighting at the Hammersmith Palais, early 1960s, As the dance craze of the 1920s expanded, purpose-built dance halls proliferated. 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. I have a long and fond relationship with the old Notts Palais. 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. On their first trip into Nottingham he and a group of other airmen enquired where the action was. Last saw Pete and Chris about 8 years ago coming out from Forest. 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. Frank Hanford used to run it but Dorothy Richards I never saw. 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. Postcard view of Cricklewood Dance Hall and Skating Rink, 1920s (author's private collection), The entrepreneurs behind Britain's first palais de danse, Booker and Mitchell, attracted an impressive 30,000 investment from shareholders, including the margarine manufacturer Sidney Van de Burgh.Footnote 33 The Hammersmith Palais was an instant success. Such a shame when the twist and other non partner dances took over. I love kids and old people - because children have not yet learned to lie - and old people have nothing to lie about. 4145CrossRefGoogle Scholar. "Their organist was Graham Elliott, who I used to practise jazz with during the daytime in the large, empty Palais hall.. 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. 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). It was emmotional. I dont live in the town. We worked and lived in Wellington until 1992 when we moved to the Wairarapa Region and celebratedour 54th wedding anniversary this year! Powered by Invision Community. When we werent dancing there we were probably at the Cavendish. . *. 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. Consumerism expanded, with home ownership among manual workers reaching 40 per cent by 1962.Footnote 80 The architecture of the dance hall reflected this further democratisation of pleasure, the new centrality of the working class to national life, and a new version of modernity. 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??) Hi John, yes great days, wonderful memories of our younger days. Enjoyed other peoples recollections of the Palais, the place where I met my now wife Margaret & actually danced to musicians. Nottingham Palais paid more than laying a new dance oor, and in October the Hammersmith Palais spent on a maple oor.19 The installation of dance oors required consideration of several crucial issues. By It also had dedicated band rooms for the musicians. 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. Juni 2009 in London, Grobritannien.Am 21. 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. Three stylii were used to transfer this record. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings. 48 Daily Mirror, 12 February 1960, p. 23. Nottingham is the queen of the Midlands. Fig. The democratisation of pleasure that dance halls represented is nowhere better illustrated than in the varied social profile of the Hammersmith Palais's customers. The Jubilee Hall, which was the Co-op, and the Corporation Hall. May 14, 2012 In There was a good crowd in and we had a really great night. 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. Under the soft lights and lulled by the sweet music he can sink into a dreamland of wishful desire.Footnote 86, The design of dance halls helped manufacture such dreams. I featured on a few backing vocals too until someone actually heard me!. Heimann, Joint Chairman, Mecca Ltd (London, 1963), p. 23Google Scholar. it's like any venue from 40 years ago, big records were nationwide, after being 'broke' at one. 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. Exterior and interior of the Hammersmith Palais (illustration from Dancing World, AugustSeptember 1921). A waft of hot air, the rhythmic throb of the band, the hiss of feet on the ballroom floor assail you. 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 site became vacant when Nottingham Prison was demolished. Without this, dancing could be uncomfortable and tiring and particularly wearing on the knees and ankles. Not only the dance music, but also people talking, laughing, whispering and of course dancing all created a unique soundscape. The Majestic dance hall in Crewe, for example, was opened in 1961 by the Rank Organisation (which had diversified into dancing as cinema-going declined) following its conversion from a Gaumont cinema in a building originally erected as a picture house in 1911.Footnote 29 One of the most famous conversions from cinema to dance hall was the Rivoli Ballroom, Brockley, south London, opened in 1959.Footnote 30 The Locarno, Blackburn, was converted by the Mecca group from the former Olympia cinema at a cost of 130,000 in 1959.Footnote 31 Mecca became the largest name in dance-hall ownership and was particularly influential in the development of the building type. The seats were always taken as when someone got up one of the walkers would sit down. By this point, Mecca also employed its own group of in-house architects for interiors, Kett and Neve, perhaps best known as the designers of one of the first motorway service stations, Trowell services on the M1 (also for Mecca).Footnote 50 The Stevenage Locarno (Fig. Hopefully see you sooner rather than later. Rob Smith was forever hammering it but it just sounded so good blasting through that sound system. Cliff Bennett is very much alive and well and performed in Nottingham's Old Market Square at the Nottingham Pulse festival last summer. Happy days. I remember Love on amountain top being a big spin too. 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. 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 The Tower Ballroom in Blackpool, redesigned by Frank Matcham and opened in 1899, was a particularly noteworthy example.Footnote 16 Dancing was also increasingly accommodated as part of the provision of seaside pavilions, including examples as disparate as Ramsgate's Royal Victoria Pavilion, designed by S.D. I thought "Statue" was great at the time, now it doesn't seem to have any soul at all. It is an odd omission, as the architecture of pleasure has generated a growing body of scholarship. During the late 1980s the Palais de Danse reinvented itself as a popular nightclub venue. I like all of the above - except, Cobblestone is shite! The upstairs bars were decorated in a glamorous modern members club style, with buttoned leather panels and copper downlighters on the walls. The Palais de Danse is Nottinghams most famous nightclub. I boughtboth of them from Selectadisc but unfortunately they "disappeared" over the years. In November 1929, the Stage Guild held its annual ball at the palais, with guests including Prince Paul of Greece.Footnote 61 A generation earlier, such events would have been held exclusively in country houses, private clubs, grand assembly rooms or private ballrooms. 6. The dance hall was a symbol of social, cultural and political change. 34 Kimber, Jane, Danse to the Music of Time, Hammersmith and Fulham Historic Buildings Group Newsletter, 19 (Autumn 2008), p. 7Google Scholar. 13. Worked in the downstairs bar. My lass went a few times late seventies early eighties. The principal place of public indoor amusement in Nottingham is undoubtedly the new Palais de Danse. Easily accessible from all parts, this splendid building in Weldon stone in the Classic style forms a worthy addition to the many fine public buildings of the City. 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