Hi List Further to Dave Jassie¹s suggestion that we all post our interests, here are (some of) mine..... West Park Pavilion in Jersey was built to house a circus in 1886, became a Skating Rink in 1909, a Concert Hall in 1911, was rebuilt as a Ballroom in 1931 - which lasted until the 60s - became a cabaret venue (in the summer) and live gig venue (in the winter) from the 70s to the early 1990s and a rave disco in the mid 1990s until it closed down in 1996. The building has seen many changes over the years. Now it looks as if all of this is coming to an end with developers having put in plans to put up a block of flats on the site. I am presently researching a book to commemorate the passing of a Jersey institution. If you have any memories, photographs, playbills or articles about the building that you would like to share please contact me. Particularily interested in the ballroom dancing demonstrators and professional dance partners plus the cabaret dance performers of the 1930s i.e. Jack and Jill, Ella Scutts, Billy Rolls and Dorothy etc. and bandleaders like George Coleman (London) and Jack Chapman (Glasgow). Further back Yorick the Fool appeared in Jersey in with Rolland¹s New York Circus in 1886 and 1887 and in 1907 when Sloan¹s Hippodrome visited the Island. A photograph of him has survived along with a brief interview, in Jersey Week by Week of September 21 1907..... ³Not the least attraction is the clowning of Yorick, the famous Fool, who made his reputation in Jersey more years ago than he probably cares to remember......there are many among us who remember Yorick in connection with the circuses of Mr Rowland (sic) for whom was erected what is now West Park Pavilion..... How many, then juveniles, have laughed at his jokes, and wondered at his tumbling; nor need we recall the prizes he offered for the largest cabbage-stalk and the biggest potato!² The article goes on to touch on Yorick¹s initiation as a Mason in Jersey and the Jersey Provincial records show that Yarborough Lodge initiated two men on August 10th 1887 - the first was Adolphus McKee, a musician, and the second Thomas Shovebottom, a comedian - this is probably our man. Can anyone confirm that I have this right? I have more on Yorick the Fool (whose son followed him into the business) if you are interested. :-))) Alex