One thing I noticed was a couple of ex chart Northern sounds that had been re-activated and played to a packed dance floor. 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. 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 . The low cost, from 6d. I love the Palais for introducing me to the first girl who would ever break my heart and putting me off rum for life. 70 Jeremy, and Gould, Caroline, Coventry: The Making of a Modern City 193973 (Swindon, 2016), pp. The final date was the 4 musicians backing Heinz (formerly bass player with The Tornados). Sure I remember the manager winding us up, walking along the queue saying if our shoes not polished were not getting in ;-) First place I met Shippo, remember Kempy, Tommy Cragg and Kevin Husbands too, no one would forget Curley of course. The Jubilee Hall, which was the Co-op, and the Corporation Hall. Great tune. 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. Had some good nights at the old Palais as a teenager in the early sixties, probably the most memorable being the appearance/s of the then, Shane Fenton, (later to become Alvin Stardust), sadly no longer with us. 79 Nottingham Evening Post, 11 April 1925, p. 3. Elvis Presley Fans Dance On A Traffic Island Outside The Palais De Danse Hall in Nottingham. I played the Palais 7 times and here are the dates and the band, 29/04/1966 (Carl Pagan and the Heathens). We would always aim to get in the queue early and watch it build as worshipers from all over arrived. Used to love it. 6 City of Birmingham Archives, PS/B 4/1/1/4, Nineteenth Annual Report of the Public Entertainments Committee of Justices (1936), and Glasgow City Archives [hereafter GCA], E 7/4/1, Registers of Music Halls etc, 193452. Much of my Northern Soul early life centered around the Palais All Dayers, mid to late seventies. Although dance halls were comparatively egalitarian spaces, this quality should not be overstated. 31 Blackburn Times, 20 February 1959, p. 3. Among its clientele were actors, sportsmen, film stars and even royalty; patrons included the Prince of Wales (a keen dancer), the Duke of York (later George VI), Lady Diana Cooper, the actors Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, and the celebrated French boxer George Carpentier. Scarce as hens teeth to find anything relating to the Jaybirds and Jay Cats. Probably our most regular gig was the New Cross Inn, Sutton. 51 Details provided by Museum Services, Stevenage, Hertfordshire. 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. Also, will accept photos of the venues where they played. I didn't even recognise them until Jarv sayed hello to them. [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). Fig. I really liked Tommy a lot. Our first opportunity to assess the size of the queue and who we could spot. They were brilliant they were on more or less every three months and always went to see them. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. Still doing cabaret. Excellent he was too! Doesanyone remember the Mansfield and the Sons and Lovers playing there? Funny how you both mention Love On A Mountain Top. Yesterday's photo of the Palais de Dance reminded me that I have this booklet of the 25th anniversary of the Palais with some of its history. I could say, after the Wirrina in Peterborough where I was living at the time, I really "cut my teeth" at the Palais all dayer's and never missed one. And of course by 1.30pm that queue was lost around the corner and the back of the building. The History of the British Holiday Camp (London, 1986)Google Scholar. Anyone with any memories? Postcard view of the Chinese themed interior, Hammersmith Palais, 1921 (author's private collection). document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Your email address will not be published. 4145CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Discover (and save!) 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. 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'. 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). 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. Very special memories of the old place including the performers and of course themusic! Many of the businesses behind these dance halls were local consortiums made up of investors with other interests in the entertainment industry. 19 The Hello Bill, Im not 100% sure but I think it very likely that the Mansfields did play the Palais at some stage or other. I spent many happy hours at the Palais in my teens, late 1950s early 1960s . You've Got To Love Your Baby - Millionaires, 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 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. Hi Bill and John. As we got a little older we would brave the Crystal Palace pub and buy our pints of bitter shandy, to give us a little more courage to maybe actually chat the young ladies up! 86 MOA, Worktown (WC), 48/C, Shall We Dance?, 1938, p. 3. A strange but belting instrumental. 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. 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. 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. 72 Ibid. 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. Die I Am Tour von Beyonc begann am 26. Am in touch with Kev Husbands via Facebook. 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. Lovely post Martyn , would Sharon be from Langley Mill by any chance ? 6d., indicates that dance organisers and commercial dance halls were aiming at a working-class audience. During the Second World War it was requisitioned [5], In 1957, the name was changed to the Sherwood Rooms. Haven't heard it in ages, probably since the Palais!! had a good atmosphere as well. Second, and equally important, the revolving bandstand added a highly theatrical air to the evening's proceedings, essential to create the kind of escapist atmosphere dance-hall managements were aiming for. Richard Kemp, Alan Bakewell.no doubt there's a few more I've forgotten. 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. 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. 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. The liberation of movement offered by the new social dances of the early twentieth century was central to their terrific popularity. 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. in 1913 to 3 10s. 17. Nothing of the brutish thug looks which so typifies the modern day equivalent. He once came to our house in Rainworth to see my brother and gave me a pair of his drumsticks, I wish I still had them. In the Locarno, Bradford, also opened in 1961, the Ladies' Boudoir included 45 full-length mirrors and was decorated in a Georgian style. Fig. I was 9 years old and it was Christmas. From the mid-1920s to the mid-1960s, the dance hall occupied a pivotal place in the culture of working- and lower-middle-class communities in Britain. Those in the mill towns of Lancashire, for example, attempted to recreate some of the splendour of the Blackpool ballrooms.Footnote 17 Entrepreneurs were also inspired by the cavernous dance halls that had emerged in the United States before the First World War such as the one in Pawtuxet, Rhode Island (Fig. I dont have an exact date for this but it would be about March/April 1968. 64 The Builder, 14 December 1934, p. 1035. Powered by Invision Community, Fly Fishing, Golf, Gardening, Reading, 1960s Music, Gilbert & Sullivan, Cricket, Notts County, Archery, Railways, Movies, Art, Travel. 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. *. At Christmas? Want to read more Leicestershire nostalgia? 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