Mecca was particularly forward-looking and worked hard with local planners to ensure that its dance halls were at the heart of Britain's new town and city centres, the Locarno, Coventry, discussed below, being a significant example.Footnote 67 Similar shopping-centre dance halls were opened by Mecca in Portsmouth and Basildon (where it was also called the Locarno), and Birmingham (the Mayfair). Hintergrund. The New Bristol Centre was perhaps the zenith of these multi-purpose buildings. 9. When we werent dancing there we were probably at the Cavendish. Here's a few that I'm talking about (I could list loads). 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. Even got "Paper Lace" - Billy don't be a hero & The night Chicago died.What happened to them I wonder? 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??) More common in the interwar period and actually constructed were fusions between dance halls and cinemas, largely led by cinema owners afraid of dancing's threat to their business.Footnote 65 Manchester was particularly well served by these so-called super cinemas. 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. 23 The Builder, 14 November 1924, p. 799. Love reading this kind of thread, thanks! 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. 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 band members were Keith Williams (guitar), Stuart Lane (guitar), Mick Hodgkinson (bass guitar & sax) and Ric Lee (drums). 35 Duncan, Hammersmith's Palaces of Pleasure, p. 4. History. Now in those days doormen weren't the breed they are today. In common with many entertainment venues, dance halls were sealed off from the outside world and seldom had windows. I used to go to the Palais twice a week, 1956/7. My son carries Freddies name (Fitzgerald) and my daughter is named (Adele). Rob Smith was forever hammering it but it just sounded so good blasting through that sound system. This ballroom dancing hall had an unusual dance floor created from oak and walnut mounted on 560 spiral springs, an area of 6309 superficial feet which could hold approximately 600 dancers. Grayman45 86 MOA, Worktown (WC), 48/C, Shall We Dance?, 1938, p. 3. It was known as Greyfriars Hall and was opened by the Lord Mayor of Nottingham, Walter Wessen, on 8 October 1929. The Leeds Locarno also had an Americana food bar and Flamingo coffee bar, all indicative of a popular interest in travel and the exotic. For each dance, different coloured lights would be lowered blue for a waltz, red for a foxtrot, and so on. 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'. I was a regular for four years from 1976 so not quite the golden KTF period. Munro, Malcolm, Dancing Mad: An Autobiographical Dancing Diary (Liverpool, n.d.), p. 181Google Scholar. There was a small area called 72 Ibid. Allerdyce from 1920.Footnote 54, Fig. My name is real and feel free to contact me with any information. There were often more men than women and you had to dance by yourself. Performer: Wayne King and his Orch.Writer: Sid PhillipsFox Trot.Digitized at 78 revolutions per minute. 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. They also said they played the Palais regularly amongst many local and national venues. 2019. 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. Then I received a call to join Val Doonicans backing band, the John Currie Quartet, full-time. Spotlights playfully danced around the crowded floor, too. Heimann had been inspired by seeing such facilities on various tours of the US during the 1940s and 1950s.Footnote 84 Similarly, in Dundee dance halls in the 1950s, automated perfume machines could be found in the women's cloakrooms, which gave a spray of Yardley's Lily of the Valley when a coin was inserted.Footnote 85, Fig. My first encounter with the Palais came about 1971. Scarce as hens teeth to find anything relating to the Jaybirds and Jay Cats. 15 See Godbolt, Jim, A History of Jazz in Britain, 191950 (London, 2005)Google Scholar. I still have that velvet bow tie locked away in a box of keepsakes and memories. From the mid-1960s, Mecca began creating multi-purpose entertainment venues. Even Sam played it at the Locarno on more than one occasion. 22 Morton, Francis Junior, and Co, Sprung Floors for Dancing (London, c. 1925), p. 2Google Scholar. During the late 1980s the Palais de Danse reinvented itself as a popular nightclub venue. 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. Ballroom, rock N Roll you name it. You can post now and register later. up to 2s. 79 Nottingham Evening Post, 11 April 1925, p. 3. Hostname: page-component-75cd96bb89-t9pvx We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. 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. 79, 85. I remember a ex boxer guy the used to get a skipping rope out on the upstairs dance floor. Enjoyed other peoples recollections of the Palais, the place where I met my now wife Margaret & actually danced to musicians. This phase ended in tears after police intervention. The constraint of the crowded dance floor, for example, demanded a constant process of negotiation. Innovation led to a unique architectural feature the sprung dance floor. Brian Eno composed the soundscape. 52 Nottingham Evening Post, 10 September 1924, p. 5. Finally got the Malibus. 58 See photographs of the interior at picturethepast.org.uk (accessed on 31 May 2018). 66 Manchester, City Archives, M117/4/4/2, Registers of Music, Dancing and Rooms 190237. Many of the businesses behind these dance halls were local consortiums made up of investors with other interests in the entertainment industry. The width and direction of floorboards also had to be given careful thought, with some experts arguing that a floor of secret-nailed, tongue-and-groove floorboards in narrow widths gave the best effect. I've ended up over in Stockport. Also, will accept photos of the venues where they played. Returned to the Palais when I finished working there and remember seeing Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers one night. 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. The type of timber was another major issue, as it had to be strong and durable, suitable for a high degree of polishing, but cost was also a concern. Without this, dancing could be uncomfortable and tiring and particularly wearing on the knees and ankles. Many readers will remember The Ivor Kenney Sound, the resident band, during the 1960s and 70s, at Leicesters Palais de Danse. Got P**d off with meeting Paper Lace.our chargehand 'slothead' at bell fruit was the drummers dadso they were always being pushed on us. Where have all those 1960s bands gone? 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. Just reading the 1957 Mansfield Gazateer for 1957 and noticed the page for the Musicians Union. Postcard view of the Chinese themed interior, Hammersmith Palais, 1921 (author's private collection). 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 line-up of the orchestra had changed, also the name Carmen Sylva (for his orchestra) vanished. They used to have a Friday night dance with a better ratio of girls to guys. It was that popular at weekends that traction put on late night buses to get us home to all the surrounding villages, This was quite a place, I remember wanting to go there with my brother. Good times. 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. The floor consisted of light grey marble-effect tiles, interspersed with a starburst design, and the walls were clad in alternate wood laminate and fabric panels, with black leatherette quilted panels, which adding a feeling of softness and luxury to the scheme. 4145CrossRefGoogle Scholar. 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. Normally we were restricted to the sandwiches and coka cola we could cram into our Adidas sports bags. 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. Can anyone remember Reg Guest Trio and Ian King Trio? It was the first palais de danse [nb 1] to be built in Britain. There was a small area called "The Bali Hi". 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. Wendy Northern Soul Cinema Theatre Vaudeville Theatres Auditorium Courtesy Opera House An Article from arthurlloyd.co.uk. Happy days. I did like it when everyone shoved there arms up in the chorus! 75962. The seats were always taken as when someone got up one of the walkers would sit down. my memory is going what was the pubs name? Anyone remember any of these bands? Average weekly money wages rose from 1 12s. Probably our most regular gig was the New Cross Inn, Sutton. Is the building still there in Mansfield and if so what is it used for now? Regular contributor, Michael Clarke, caught up with Adrian Tilbrook, who was the bands drummer at the Humberstone Gate Mecca dance hall in 1968-69. Patrons of different classes were often segregated by temporal and spatial means. My future wife, Sylvia Chesterman was from Alfreton and I was born in Mansfield many years ago! New dances were formulated to accompany the new music and were deliberately designed for couples (most notably the foxtrot). Memories from 1959 I met a tall good looking lady at the Palais de Dance in 1959 married her in 1961 and we headed to New Zealand in 1962. You went in one night and picked up a ticket for free entry for next night. 6). From the 1920s to 1960, there were three main types of dance hall. One of the main events of the year was the General Hospital Ball which transferred to this venue in 1929. 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 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. Can't understand why these aren't played now, they were so BIG in '76. 14. 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. It had a small revolving circular dance floor. 56 The Builder, 14 November 1924, pp. 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. 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. Painting, woodwork, fishing, beer, food, Thinking outside the box, talking, some history, d.i.y., Amateur Dramatics; Writing; Reading; Music, Fishing; Art. In the Locarno, Bradford, also opened in 1961, the Ladies' Boudoir included 45 full-length mirrors and was decorated in a Georgian style. 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. By The dance floor, measuring 32 100ft, was overlooked by an equally impressive balcony and flanked by two orchestra stages (one on each of the long sides). Some dance halls themed their whole decoration, with the aim of creating a specific atmosphere. Sign up for our free weekly newsletter sent straight to your inbox. Dance music was clearly a dominating feature. I really liked Tommy a lot. Facing the stairs is a lounge, with settees, wicker chairs, glass topped tables. Average weekly earnings for industrial workers grew by 34 per cent between 1955 and 1960, and by 130 per cent between 1955 and 1969. 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. We moved down to Kent in the late 80s. 84345. 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! 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. I do have a strong memory of seeing Jimmy James & The Vagabonds at The Palais. 38 Parsonage, Catherine, The Evolution of Jazz in Britain, 18801935 (Aldershot, Hampshire, 2005), p. 130Google Scholar. 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. Pasted as rich text. I used to walk up from Mansfield Woodhouse. had some great nights in the pub, very small, tables to the left, bar to the right just enough room to walk through. 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. Has data issue: true 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. 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. During the Second World War it was requisitioned Managed to replace Johnny Ross recently, but the Malibus still elude me. 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). Elaborate neon lighting at the Hammersmith Palais, early 1960s, As the dance craze of the 1920s expanded, purpose-built dance halls proliferated. 87 Richards, Jeffrey, The Age of the Dream Palace: Cinema and Society in Britain, 19301939 (London, 1984), pp. Interior of the Nottingham Palais, 1925 (Nottingham City Council and picturethepast.org.uk). 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. 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. except they were a three piece, there's been talk here of "The night chicago died" listen to this, http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=3+little+bears+jimi+hendrix&aq=6&oq=3+little+bears ! Appearing as Twos Company the next date was 05/11/1967. We can't bring them day's back, but we won't forget em either. Juni begann Beyonc den dritten Teil ihrer Tour in den USA und beendete diesen mit einem viertgigen Auftritt im Encore Las Vegas 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. 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