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The site became vacant when Nottingham Prison was demolished. The building was constructed by the Midland Palais de Danse Company and opened as a dance hall and billiard saloon under the name Palais de Danse. The architects were Alfred John Thraves and Henry Hardwick Dawson [1] and the contractors were W. and J. Simons. The building featured a ...
PRYZM, Nottingham, a nightclub in Nottingham, England, formerly the Palais de Danse; Hammersmith Palais, also known as Hammersmith Palais de Danse, a former dance hall and entertainment venue in Hammersmith, London; Wattle Path Palais de Danse, a former dance hall, opened in 1923 in St Kilda, Victoria, Australia
The building opened as a palais de danse to replace Victoria Halls in Talbot Street. It was known as Greyfriars Hall and was opened by the Lord Mayor of Nottingham, Walter Wessen, on 8 October 1929. [2] It was designed by the Nottingham architectural practice of Evans, Clark and Woollatt for W. A. Walker at a cost of £30,000. The main dance ...
Palais de Dance, Nottingham 1925 Barton House, High Road, Chilwell 1934 Queens Drive, Beeston by the Ideal Homes Development Company 1932-35. Henry Hardwick Dawson FRIBA (23 February 1900 - 14 January 1962) was an architect based in Nottingham.
From the earliest years of the twentieth century until the early 1960s, the dance hall was the popular forerunner of the discothèque or nightclub.The majority of towns and cities in the West had at least one dance hall, and almost always featured live musicians playing a range of music from strict tempo ballroom dance music to big band, swing, and jazz.
Lemon was born in Nottingham, England. [2] After leaving school in the 1950s, he began playing professionally at Nottingham's Palais de Danse and other local venues. He moved to London, aged 19, in 1956 to join Freddy Randall's group. [3] After that he worked with George Chisholm, Kenny Baker and Sandy Brown. [2]
The dance floor at the Hammersmith Palais de Danse around 1919. Built in 1910 on a site formerly occupied by a tram shed [3] for London United Tramways, the Brook Green Roller Skating Rink, [1] which may have been closed since 1915, [nb 2] was acquired at the end of the First World War by North American entrepreneurs Howard Booker and Frank Mitchell, [3] [4] to convert it into a place to host ...
The original full title was the "Locarno Palais de Dance". [5] Functionally the buildings focussed on what would now be called ballroom dancing and the locations provided both professional displays plus instruction classes. The Glasgow venue was home to Scotland's first Scottish Professional Dancing Championships in 1928. [6]