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Ballroom built in the twentieth century. The Beach Ballroom was constructed as part of the 'Beach Improvement Scheme' to a design by Thomas Roberts and Hume, 1926, the winning design in a competition held by Aberdeen Town Council. It was officially opened on 3 May 1929. The building was used by the military during World War II and reopened as a ballroom in December 1946. The ballroom floor floats on 1400 steel springs, originally of maple, relaid after the war. The Star Ballroom, opened in June 1963 was probably designed by City Architect George M Keith. Square columns in the Northern Lights suite were moved toward the outer wall to provide support for the new ballroom. A programme of renovation carried out in the 1970s included lowering of the ballroom ceiling. The stage was damaged by fire in 1993, it had originally been semi-circular, but probably altered to rectangular in the 1970s. The dance floor shape has also changed from a central octagon. The building is single storey with raised basement, octagonal ballroom with a set-back pantiled pyramidal roof crowned by an arcaded lantern, and three projecting flat-roofed single storey wings with the main entrance to the south. It is of brick and stone construction with buff faience cladding, harled with raised margins to the lesser elevations. There is a deep contrasting granite base course. The south front is a 9-bay symmetrical entrance wing with 'THE BEACH' on a pediment over the centre doorpiece. The 5-bay southeast wing has three large tripartite windows to bowed centre bays flanked by set back windows. The 8-bay east (Northern Lights) wing has a distinctive stepped roofline of later full-width glass and timber Start Ballroom above.
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Historic Environment Records (HER) 
Aberdeen City
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NJ90NE0173 - BEACH BALLROOM