Dance days.... by Jim Morris

Wonderful! So vibrant Jim, love it

Superb you have started to describe the action from top of the stage.

Thanks Helen and Mustafa. I may have mislead you a little Mustafa, the scene is the entrance to the dance hall, with the Saturday night crowd heading in.....or something like that...(-:

Wow.. great colour Jim!

Great painting Jim really captures the energy and movement of the scene. Bright lights, hustle and bustle of the crowd - I can almost hear the music!

I thought it might have been Strictly at first. I suppose this is the scene they tried to resurrect with the programme. You have caught the drama well here.

Great painting Jim, love it!

A lively, exciting painting Jim :)

Very happy and vibrant.

Ah yes I remember it well !! brilliant Jim.

What a great painting Jim, you have captured all the colour and action, lovely stuff!

Its a real beauty Jim. lovely the colours the figures, makes if look a very busy hall

Great painting, Jim. I wish I was there!

Great Jim. Did you ever grace Rochdale Town Hall ?

Thanks everybody for the positive comments. Much appreciated all. Glad so many are dance fans.... Sylvia, when Mecca ballrooms ruled the world, Rochdale's dance hall was The Carlton just off Drake Street. Part of the Mecca chain, it was where I met my first wife (we shall pass quickly over that bit..(-: ) . The Carlton, Like Bolton Palais, Bury Palais, Rawtenstall Astoria and Manchester's Ritz and Plaza were all scenes of my dancing youth ( along with a fair few others) remembered with the fondest of memories. A fantastic era I would happily live all over again......well, most of it. (-:

Buzzing!!

Ha ha Saturday night was Rochdale town hall twasall polite and proper. Waltzing and quick stepping . Yes I remember the Carlton very well somewhere there is a pic of me bopping my heart our with some guy in overalls and boots. It made the Manchester Evening News . My dad was not impressed... We used to go during lunch times from the art school... then I really got with it at the Cavern in Liverpool ... maybe I tripped over your boots at some stage in the dim and distant.

The Navigation Inn on Drake Street was the hostelry of choice Monday nights Sylvia. Oh, and my second wife is a Scouser and was a Cavern regular ( she went out with Gerry Marsden a couple of times a hundred years ago (-:) I too got a clip around the ear when I was amongst the prizes in a Mecca rock and roll comp. The Bolton News printed a picture and...well, my dad read the Bolton news, and his views on rock and roll were not those of Alan Freman and Tony Blackburn and co...(-:

Yes I remember the Saturday dances at the Palais in Nottingham. Now I'm showing my age!