admin 21 Posted December 7, 2004 Report Share Posted December 7, 2004 Can you remember the Sunday night disco at (Edith) Colemans Dance Hall, Clumber Street. It was'nt licenced and you used to have to sneak out of the fire exit, to the Crystal Palace Pub, to get a drink. I remember a couple of records of the time. Love of the Common People - Nikki Thomas and Neanderthal Man - Hot Legs (later to become 10CC) The latter the girls would sit on the floor, crossing and uncrossing their legs. I remember Edith walking round making them all stand up. It was a wierd place. Rectangular room, with seats round the outside. The crowd would walk round the outside. till a seat would appear, when someone would sit down. This Musical chairs game would go on all night. Colemans became Rose's Jewellers, and the Crystal Palace Pub is now an amusement arcade! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chaff 1 Posted May 18, 2006 Report Share Posted May 18, 2006 I can remember Colemans on Clumber St. We all used to meet in the Red Lion pub just down from the Palace Pub, Then on to the Corner Pin before we had enough dutch courage to ask the gels to dance Quote Link to post Share on other sites
patsyann 1 Posted February 4, 2010 Report Share Posted February 4, 2010 Does anyone remember Colmans Dance Hall in Maypole Yard? It was run by Enid and Aubrey Colman. Fantasic weekends were spent there. We used to nip in next door to the Crystal Palace for a drink. Also the Palais de Dance and the Laccano were very good around the same time.50s and 60s The Palais in those days used to have dancing at lunch times. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted February 4, 2010 Report Share Posted February 4, 2010 Yes I went there 60/70s. Owned by Enid Coleman, with family connections to owners of Swinging Slipper (aka. Dancing Slipper), West Bridgford. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Carol Dickens 3 Posted February 4, 2010 Report Share Posted February 4, 2010 Does anyone remember Colmans Dance Hall in Maypole Yard? It was run by Enid and Aubrey Colman. Fantasic weekends were spent there. We used to nip in next door to the Crystal Palace for a drink. Also the Palais de Dance and the Laccano were very good around the same time.50s and 60s The Palais in those days used to have dancing at lunch times. I used to go to Colmans on Friday nights when I was 14, must have been 1966. Used to go the Palais sometimes around that time. I remember my boyfriend dragging me on to the stage to propose (there must have been a prize of some sort) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted February 5, 2010 Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 Colemans, Friday and Sunday nights in 1962/63. Happy days! Yes, there was some kind of prize at the Palais for announcing an engagement I seem to vaguely remember. Can't remember what the prize was. Tried to get my late wife to do it, but she was not having any. no1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
EileenH 496 Posted February 28, 2010 Report Share Posted February 28, 2010 Does anyone remember Colmans Dance Hall in Maypole Yard? It was run by Enid and Aubrey Colman. Fantasic weekends were spent there. We used to nip in next door to the Crystal Palace for a drink. Also the Palais de Dance and the Laccano were very good around the same time.50s and 60s The Palais in those days used to have dancing at lunch times. Oh yes - happy days (evenings!) I remember when the Twist came out it was banned at Colmans because they said the movements were 'lewd'. We were all very virtuous in those days, weren`t we? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted February 28, 2010 Report Share Posted February 28, 2010 Colmans was mustard what about the mashed potato? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
EileenH 496 Posted February 28, 2010 Report Share Posted February 28, 2010 Colmans was mustard what about the mashed potato? Actually, I remember a very particular Monday evening when my mate and I were heading for Colmans and never got there. We went to the underground `Ladies` in Slab Square to get suitably dolled up and when we emerged the Square was filling up with excited crowds. We joined them for the wonderful evening when The Reds came on to the Council House balcony to show the FA Cup and receive the adulation of the people. It was brilliant. There were people up lamp posts and up trees and the Square was packed in all directions. I`ll never forget that evening. It was history being made! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted February 28, 2010 Report Share Posted February 28, 2010 Used to go the Palais I remember my boyfriend dragging me on to the stage to propose (there must have been a prize of some sort) You were the Prize Carol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley 288 Posted February 28, 2010 Report Share Posted February 28, 2010 was it Colemans who also had a place above what is now a charity place at bottom of Hockley? did that shop used to be a Burton's tailors? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted February 28, 2010 Report Share Posted February 28, 2010 That was Roy and Mary Knight's Dancing School. I believe there was a family connection? Could be wrong And it was Burtons. Then became Emanuel House. A hostel for the homeless. Which I believe it still is? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted July 31, 2010 Report Share Posted July 31, 2010 Talking about digging up old topics. I see this one's been dormant for a long time. Probably got some newcomers now who remember Colemans. It always seemed hot in there to me, and loud! One of a number of places we used to circulate around looking for a date. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
EileenH 496 Posted July 31, 2010 Report Share Posted July 31, 2010 Great place! And, as I`ve recalled before, when the Twist came out we weren`t allowed to do it because the movements were too sexy! There`d be a tap on the shoulder and, "Now then, stop that!" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
... 1,411 Posted April 6, 2013 Report Share Posted April 6, 2013 Colemans was all about reggae and skinheads when i went in the seventies 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
... 1,411 Posted April 6, 2013 Report Share Posted April 6, 2013 All meadows folk is there a topical runner in the national / may be join together Quote Link to post Share on other sites
norman 3 Posted November 22, 2014 Report Share Posted November 22, 2014 Hi Everyone, Does anyone have a photo of Colmans dance maypole yard in the 1960s ? Would be very much appreciated Norman Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted November 22, 2014 Report Share Posted November 22, 2014 Is this any use? http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?action=printdetails&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NTGM015967&prevUrl= 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PeverilPeril 3,300 Posted November 23, 2014 Report Share Posted November 23, 2014 Colemans! Gosh, that brings back memories. I was a regular there in the 50's. Social nights on Weds and bagsing one of the snogging sofas Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PeverilPeril 3,300 Posted November 23, 2014 Report Share Posted November 23, 2014 Known perhaps unfairly by some of us in our younger days as The Last Chance Saloon! I was young and learning. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted November 23, 2014 Report Share Posted November 23, 2014 Miracles we do quickly the impossible takes a little longer 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Trevor S 2,003 Posted November 23, 2014 Report Share Posted November 23, 2014 PeverilPeril...re #4....Wasn't Wednesday nights known as the 'Grab A Granny' nights (#2) or was that after your time in the 50s.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PeverilPeril 3,300 Posted November 24, 2014 Report Share Posted November 24, 2014 PeverilPeril...re #4....Wasn't Wednesday nights known as the 'Grab A Granny' nights (#2) or was that after your time in the 50s.... It was all young people in the 50's. I was OK at ballroom dancing but preferred the Creep or Rock. The term grab a granny started in the late 60's and I was married with kids by then. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted November 24, 2014 Report Share Posted November 24, 2014 G.a.G.? Wednesday night at the Palais. Does anyone remember? First Wednesday night of October, before start Goose Fair on the thursday, in the 1960s, was called 'Rape Night'. I remember Lads chasing girls on Mount Hooten Road, next to the Forest and was too young to know about such things in those days? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted November 24, 2014 Report Share Posted November 24, 2014 Wow! What did I miss? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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