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:) Sorry to be late (!), but I think that the building was originally the New Jerusalem Temple and was built in about 1842. A great grandfather of mine got married there in 1868. And, yes, I too sometimes went to the Empire Dance Hall - around late 1959/early 1960.

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thats the empire sorted, who remembers the one opposite the shopfitters, was it the palace, thats gone altogether now,and new buildings in place, went past at the weekend but didnt take much notice on what the new buildings was,

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My parents, my brother and myself had regular seats booked at the Palace every Sat night 1st house, front row centre of balcony.

New houses now on the site -
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Osw...,49.04,,0,6.07

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Those were the days when you booked the same seats every week. I used to go to the Palladium with my grandma, I was about 6 or 7 at the time, in those days (unless it was a real headliner film)the films changed 3 times every week Monday Wednesday and Friday, we used to go to the first house 3 times a week and sat in the same seats every time, if there was a big film on we booked the seats in advance, the god old days

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i remember the palladium well, usually saturday afternoons, and a western, and running all the way home slapping my bum pretending i was on a horse, ha,ha,but the palace was nearer as we lived on roegreave road then,my doctor was on the same road rhyddings street,dr.millar,

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good old Cecil was quite friendly with his daughter

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The Palace in Rhyddings Street was used as St. Paul's Church Hall for a number of years after it closed as a cinema. The four houses now on the site were built about the mid-80s. I remember Dr. Millar's surgery very well. He never spent much on the decor. The same wallpaper was on for about 30 years, also the orange plastic chairs were there for ages. There were no appointments then. Surgery was morning and evening. There was no receptionist. You sat in the waiting room till he buzzed. If the waiting room was full you stood in the corridor. If the corridor was full you stood on the path outside. Everybody always got seen, though not necessarily for long! Dr. Millar and family used to live in the house next door. Then in the late 50s they had a new house built on Dene Bank Road near the park and he turned his old house into a nursing home.

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I went there in my teens on a Sunday evening, it finished at 9.30. If you did not own a watch you knew it was approaching 9.30 as the last record played was always...Michael
Haliday singing 'Some Day I'm Gonna Write the Story of My Life' we were on a cruise a while ago and this was played and I was transported back to the tiny dance floor of my youth ...Happy Days.