Beach Ballroom

The Beach Ballroom is an art deco biggin on the beach boulevard o Aiberdeen, Scotland. It haes een o Scotland's maist fine dance fleers – weel-kent fur its bounce – that flots on 1400 siccar steel springs. It was biggit, designit bi Thomas, Roberts & Hume, aifter a compeetion an costit £50,000. It wis opent wi a masked baw on 3 Mey 1926, and is a Categerie B leestit biggin. It wis usit bi the militar throu Warld War II, wi sodgers sleepin on beds in the dancefleer. Dancin frae the Jazz era an tae Big Bands siclik Joe Loss an Victor Sylvester an in the 1960s, The Beatles playit for £45 afore their rise tae fame. The Beach Ballroom is aint an operatit by Aiberdeen Ceety Cooncil. The Beach Ballroom is forby the seed o a wabcam that faces Sooth, alang the beach thewarts Fitdee. The main dance haa is octagonal an oreeginally haed a domed reef, tho it haes noo bin covert ower wi a suspended ceiling. The sma'er Star Ballroom ootshot wis opent in Juin 1963. It hosts events, concerts an waddins, forby dancin in rooms wi the follaein capacity: 1,000 (Main Ballroom) 150 (Star Ballroom) 100 (Northern Lights Room) 50 (Promenade Room) It hid a muckle fire in 1993 and wis later replenisht an reopent in 2010, bi Strictly Come Dancing stars Erin Boag an Anton du Beke. References Freemit airtins Offeicial wabsteid: https://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/beach-ballroom Archive o images frae the Aiberdeen Press & Journal.[1] Images frae o replenisht cairpetin an interior