Hi to all interested in The Mansfields of the early and mid 60s. Lita Rosa, Dennis Lotus ans Dicky Valentine sang with the band. "Other vocal duties were carried out by bass guitarist Fran Black, who had played with the famous all-ladies Ivy Benson band. Lovely post Martyn , would Sharon be from Langley Mill by any chance ? 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. 36 Dancing World (AugustSeptember 1921), p. iv. It subsequently changed its name in the 1990s to MGM and in 1999 became Ocean[7] a club mainly used by students. 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). By During the Second World War it was requisitioned In Leicester, Nottingham, Manchester and other major towns and cities, entrepreneurs cashed in on the popularity of dance. I remember the Jbirds and also my late husband Johnny Gold playing there. 17 Rose Blincoe, Rochdale, Lancashire, 1991 (personal communication). my memory is going what was the pubs name? 6d., indicates that dance organisers and commercial dance halls were aiming at a working-class audience. In an era of full employment and job security, real wages rose by 20 per cent between 1951 and 1959. Any reccomends? Heimann (1938). Then I received a call to join Val Doonicans backing band, the John Currie Quartet, full-time. That was huge for a while at the Palais until it went, as we would term today "Viral". A waft of hot air, the rhythmic throb of the band, the hiss of feet on the ballroom floor assail you. 86 MOA, Worktown (WC), 48/C, Shall We Dance?, 1938, p. 3. Harry had an amazing drum kit, hand-painted with psychedelic designs. This multi-class audience for dance halls, and the democratisation it represented, was reflected in their design and even their names. 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. It was originally designed as a dance hall and billiard saloon. Want to read more Leicestershire nostalgia? I don't actually remember it being played. I featured on a few backing vocals too until someone actually heard me!. My mum and my dad separated when I was about 6 years old. dances at the Clinton Rooms on Thurland St.,.Saturday evenings were O.K but Wednesday nights were known as grab a Granny night. 199204Google Scholar. I used to walk up from Mansfield Woodhouse. Mecca's Mayfair dance hall in Newcastle, opened in 1961, is a good example (Fig. The dances performed there were the height of fashion no outdated sequence dances or polkas for Hammersmith, but foxtrots, quicksteps and the modern waltz. Most ballrooms included balconies around the main dance floor where patrons could promenade and watch the proceedings below, while allowing the considerable airflow required for what could be a strenuous activity. Promotional literature for the Locarno, Stevenage, 1961 (Museum Services, Stevenage, Hertfordshire), Opened in April 1925, the Nottingham Palais de Danse typifies the purpose-built dance hall from the height of the dance craze in the mid-1920s. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. 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. Up at the front of the queue there was my dad, resplendent in his suit and bow tie, hair neatly combed looking every inch the Dapper Dan and ladies man giving me a wave to come forward. The third and final type of dance hall was built as part of a multi-purpose complex. If any body remembers me Mansfield, Blidworth, Rainworth areas ladies and gents Hello. Powered by Invision Community. top palias sounds well there's been quiet a few but here go's. Yes its still there and think its used as a theatre now. See also Ward, Colin and Hardy, Dennis, Goodnight campers! In the 1970s the main front was rebuilt. It provides the first overview of dance halls from an architectural and spatial history perspective. 38 Parsonage, Catherine, The Evolution of Jazz in Britain, 18801935 (Aldershot, Hampshire, 2005), p. 130Google Scholar. 2,376 talking about this. The democratisation of pleasure that dance halls represented is nowhere better illustrated than in the varied social profile of the Hammersmith Palais's customers. Private functions targeting the upper-middle and upper classes would be licensed to serve alcohol and food, would be granted extensions to go on for longer, and would often involve fancy dress or other special themes.Footnote 60 Public nights were never licensed (not until the 1960s) and would not usually involve fancy dress. I have some pieces written by Adela and also by Victor Sylvester at her home. 3 Paul Holt, Daily Express, 16 November 1938, p. 16, and Economist, 14 February 1953, p. 401. Often went to the Monday night dance at the YMCA on Shakespeare street. He also remembered well-known drummer Harry Ovenall, who had flirted with fame with Leicester groups The Farinas and Family. 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. I remember Love on amountain top being a big spin too. 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. Music - Helping Handicapped People and people less fortunate than myself. And heres a modern simulation of what the looked and sounded like in those days? 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. Big bands who played at the Palais included Joe Loss. Cannot remember Ted Heath playing at the Palais in MansfieldHe did perform at Welbeck Abbey in the summer of 1951. Fig. 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. Stuart hails from Rainworth and now lives in Worthing whilst Keith was from Huthwaite and now lives in Swinton, South Yorks. Postcard view of the interior of the dance hall at Pawtuxet, Rhode Island, 1911 (author's private collection). Yet there was a tension between this liberation and constraint. Then at quarter to two, a special moment. 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. and The Builder, 9 September 1960, p. 471. I heard he had some problems after dropping off the scene. Artists from Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England. Loved the Palais in the late 50s and early 60s. Die I Am Tour von Beyonc begann am 26. DM3a. At Christmas? Good post mate. Camping, fishing, travel, photography, boating, sailing, motorbikes. Should be a fantastic read so look out for it. Got a thriving scene locally and some great youngsters picking up the movement but you know you can't beat a good old East Midlands shindig. 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 . 83 TWA, DT.Tur/4/AG1833/c, Mayfair Ballroom, Newcastle Powder Room (1961). This phase ended in tears after police intervention. The Palais De Dance with Jack O'Boyle. The line-up of the orchestra had changed, also the name Carmen Sylva (for his orchestra) vanished. 80 Marwick, Arthur, British Society Since 1945 (London, 1990), p. 114Google Scholar. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. Details Jan 13, 1998 The Palais de Danse on Humberstone Gate, Leicester Many readers will remember The Ivor Kenney Sound, the resident band, during the 1960s and 70s, at Leicesters Palais de Hi Bill and John. And another one on my list! 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. 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 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. 9 (London, 1935), pp. I love kids and old people - because children have not yet learned to lie - and old people have nothing to lie about. Hostname: page-component-75cd96bb89-t9pvx 17).Footnote 83 The rococo-style mirrors had lights above with tasselled fabric lampshades, and sconces in between. In fact anything outdoors ! The popularity of dancing just after the First World War led to an initial rush by entrepreneurs and dancing masters to convert as many buildings as possible. 59 The Builder, 14 November 1924, pp. And for 15 minutes we had the whole of the Palais de Danse to ourselves. Mecca's Bali Hai cocktail bars, found in many of its dance halls at this time, were full-scale escapist fantasies. 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. I didn't even recognise them until Jarv sayed hello to them. Henry Holmes Dawson (18771964) seemingly worked with Thraves only on the palais, as he was in a London-based partnership with H.W. 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. Interior of the Nottingham Palais, 1925 (Nottingham City Council and picturethepast.org.uk). We also played the Festival Hall, Kirkby as well as many pubs and clubs in the area. Bandstands became highly decorative. 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. The architecture of dance halls reflected these modernising trends, as well as a democratisation of pleasure. 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 ! Some dance halls themed their whole decoration, with the aim of creating a specific atmosphere. also a Big Rob Smith spin during those days was Hank Diamond-Soul sauce, another was the Motown girlie spin: Hang on Bill-Little Lisa. hasContentIssue true, CONVERSIONS AND THE BEGINNINGS OF THE DANCE HALL, DANCE HALLS AND THE MULTI-PURPOSE COMPLEX, Copyright The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain 2018. 77 Smith, H. Llewellyn, ed., New Survey of London Life and Labour, vol. 52 Nottingham Evening Post, 10 September 1924, p. 5. "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.. For this reason there are many records that for me, are Palais records. They were brilliant they were on more or less every three months and always went to see them. 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. Still see Kempy and Gail on a regular basis. In the early Fifties the management and running of the Palais fell to Adele Roscoe and Freddie Fitzgerald (her Husband and Dancing Partner for many years It Virtually became the place to go Dancing Etc The first change they made was to bring in the Hardy Smith Orchestra Which after a Few years were replaced by Art Lester from Nottingham. 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. Blackpool Locarno, one of Mecca's new multi-purpose entertainment venues, 1965 (Simon Mallett/public domain). From the mid-1960s, dance halls were rapidly replaced by discos and nightclubs, or closed altogether. 5). A few years later Ric Lee joined the well known rock band Ten years After and actually played at the world famous Woodstock festival. You've brought even more memories flooding back with the CB thing. Henry Holmes Dawson (18771964) seemingly worked with Thraves only on the palais, as he was in a London-based partnership with H.W. Allerdyce from 1920. Fig. 10. Frontage of the Nottingham Palais, showing its illuminated globe, 1925 (Nottingham City Council and picturethepast.org.uk) It began with new musical styles: ragtime, then jazz. 70 Jeremy, and Gould, Caroline, Coventry: The Making of a Modern City 193973 (Swindon, 2016), pp. The Jubilee Hall, which was the Co-op, and the Corporation Hall. 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. Despite Crewe's talents, the overall design of the dance hall was clearly compromised as a conversion and its former uses as a tram depot and a rink (Fig. A balcony was located at one end, with a caf and restaurant off the main space. In its first nine months, it hosted the Original Dixieland Jazz Band on tour from the United States and, subsequently, other visiting American bands, notably Sidney Bechet in 1920.Footnote 38 It also attracted many of the best dance bands in Britain. Alternative Dance, Alternative/Indie Rock, Edmund de Waal: 2010s - 2020s The floor was both one of the principal technical challenges for the architect of a dance hall and a principal attraction for customers. 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. Fig. While the numbers of cinemas were tallied by a well-organised industry, there was no central collation of statistics regarding the dance-hall industry. 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. Now in those days doormen weren't the breed they are today. Painting, woodwork, fishing, beer, food, Thinking outside the box, talking, some history, d.i.y., Amateur Dramatics; Writing; Reading; Music, Fishing; Art. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 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. 16. 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. The site had previously been a dairy farm, then a tram depot, and finally a roller-skating rink, and on conversion could accommodate about 2500 people in its double-height space.Footnote 35 In 1921, Dancing World magazine published an illustration of its broadly classical faade and vestibule, its size exaggerated by being drawn wildly out of scale (on the left in Fig. 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. 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. Always enjoyed it in there back in 1969. 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. http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=3+little+bears+jimi+hendrix&aq=6&oq=3+little+bears. 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. Rose was a female entrepreneur, who in partnership with her husband established and ran the Calton Dance Hall in Rochdale from the mid-1930s. 19 The Ladies Boudoir, Mayfair dance hall, Newcastle, 1961 (Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums). Happy days mate. Nov 21, 2013 - This Pin was discovered by Keith Lenthall Wells. The crowd walked round the outside of the dancefloor. People of different classes did attend the Nottingham Palais, but they did not necessarily mix. I know Curly is around and about, just not bumped into each other yet but I'm sure we will soon. I was a regular for four years from 1976 so not quite the golden KTF period. Each year from 1918 to 1965, between roughly 2000 and 3000 venues were licensed for regular dancing in Britain.Footnote 4 The number of venues in individual towns and cities could be correspondingly large. 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. Bruce Peter, for example, has examined a broad range of building types of the 1930s, from holiday camps, cinemas and greyhound stadiums to zoos and seaside pavilions.Footnote 10 Of such building types, cinemas have received by far the most attention.Footnote 11 Hilary French's examination of spaces for dancing concentrates more on ballrooms than dance halls.Footnote 12 Addressing the gap in the literature, this article provides the first overview of dance halls from an architectural and spatial history perspective, with the aim of assisting the preservation of historic dance-hall buildings in Britain.Footnote 13. Fig. st ives to me, has certain stand out records Eddie Reagan, billy prophet, susan coleman etc all wigan biggies im sure, but when you only ventured 'close go home' I suppose they evoke memories of certain venues ? Two bandstands, one at either end of the dance floor, allowed multiple bands to play for the dancers. I emigrated to Australia in 1972 but have very fond memories of those times. 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. Off we went into town. Such features were not unique to Newcastle. Such spaces increasingly became formalised as publicans and entrepreneurs saw the potential profits to be gained by opening separate dancing rooms and halls in urban areas. Because of my dad's work he would have access to us on Sundays so we only ever really got to see him once a week. The way in which the space was used also differed according to class. 60 Nottingham Evening Post, 9 February 1929, p. 5. 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. 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. Suzanne Gallo designed the costumesloose fitting white tops and pants. 57 For a full discussion of the moral panic associated with dance halls, based on allegations of immorality, misbehaviour from youths and concerns about race, see Nott, Going to the Palais, passim. I have a long and fond relationship with the old Notts Palais. They used to have a Friday night dance with a better ratio of girls to guys. 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. 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. Building began in the city's Frogmore Street in 1963 and was completed in 1966. I like all of the above - except, Cobblestone is shite! 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. Nottstalgia Nottingham Forums Rob Smith was forever hammering it but it just sounded so good blasting through that sound system. I dont live in the town. Fig. In a music career spanning more than 54 years, Adrian has worked with many of the best known names and musicians in showbusiness. not the Lion. What a pair of real gents they were and full of interesting recollections of their time with the band. Then the Palais again, then Oceana, and currently Pryzm. 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. Wendy Northern Soul Cinema Theatre Vaudeville Theatres Auditorium Courtesy Opera House An Article from arthurlloyd.co.uk. 53 The Builder, 14 November 1924, p. 759. 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. 97 See Nott, Contesting, and MOA, MDJ: 5/F, Alfred Clarke, Empress Hall, Bolton, 1938, p. 8. 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. } At the bottom of the sheet it mentions INSIST ON A UNION BAND FOR YOUR DANCES! Popular acts to appear at the Palais included Jimmy Crawford and the Ravens. 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. 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. Average weekly earnings for industrial workers grew by 34 per cent between 1955 and 1960, and by 130 per cent between 1955 and 1969. The music rises to a final chord, the drummer crashes on the cymbal [] There is a steady din of conversation.Footnote 92. To keep his head above water he took on a job as a doorman at the Palais in his spare time, a job which he held from about 1968 to 1980ish. Mrz 2009 in Edmonton, Kanada.Der europische Teil der I Am Tour begann am 26. 96 See Nott, J., Contesting Popular Dancing and Dance Music During the 1920s, Cultural and Social History, 10.3 (2013), pp. As an employee we were not allowed to go there socially so it was off to Coleman's on our nights off or usually Sunday nights I think. Such a shame when the twist and other non partner dances took over. Our first opportunity to assess the size of the queue and who we could spot. We had a change of name (same line-up) to Our Young and played there 03/07/1966, 09/10/1966, 26/12/1966 and 21/01/1967. On 14/05/2012 at 23:07, Grayman45 said: On 26/05/2012 at 20:35, MartynJJ said: also a Big Rob Smith spin during those days was. 4. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. 13).Footnote 70 The sense of theatricality was enhanced by the entrance to the main dance hall being reached via a glass-sided covered air bridge, two stories above ground level, which linked the tower with the main building above the shops. Ling was also concerned to bring a more human scale to the redesign of Coventry, revising the use of large open spaces and grand vistas by the previous city planner, Donald Gibson. Often went there for a couple of beers before going over the road to the Palais. Used to go to colemans at the weekend, upstairs i think, we would just walk round and round and round, crazy. 44 Architectural Journal, 26 February 1930, pp. Others updated and altered their atmosphere regularly using such decorative schemes. 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. Accordingly, owners invested heavily in their dance floors and updated, renovated or replaced them at regular intervals. Happy times at the Palais remembered by Adrian included the regular interval dash across Humberstone Gate to the Pickwick pub (Old Black Lion and Skandals). Upload or insert images from URL. 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. Regular contributor, Michael Clarke, caught up with Adrian Tilbrook, who was the bands drummer at the Humberstone Gate Mecca dance hall in 1968-69. A dance hall and several pubs would guarantee its use after the shops had closed for the day. Total loading time: 0.984 There were dance halls constructed in buildings converted from other uses, purpose-built dance halls, and dance halls in multi-purpose entertainment buildings. Great memories of this place. 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. Not only the dance music, but also people talking, laughing, whispering and of course dancing all created a unique soundscape. Architects enjoyed the possibilities such spaces provided. The interior of the Nottingham Palais (Fig. The faade of the main dance hall was given a canopy edged in slate to match the surrounding buildings, while the rest consisted of red and grey dark-brick panels separated with recessed blind windows of brightly coloured glass mosaic, bordered above and below with fascias of Sicilian white marble.Footnote 71 The mosaic was the work of Fred Millett (192080), a mural artist with an extensive portfolio in both the public and private sectors, having worked on commissions for London County Council, Hertfordshire schools, the Post Office and National Westminster Bank.Footnote 72 The dance hall's internal illumination included strip lighting around the edge of the balcony and bandstand, interspersed with frequent use of sputnik-like spotlights in the contemporary style. Remember Ted Heath playing at the Palais de Danse it was originally designed as a democratisation of pleasure (... 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