Rivoli Ballroom Archives

RIP Charles Gallagher (Dog & Bell) and Bill Mannix (Rivoli Ballroom)

Aug

10

2025

Sorry to hear of the death this week of a couple of SE London nightlife legends: Charles Gallagher, landlord of the Dog and Bell in Deptford from 1988 to 2016, and Bill Mannix who has owned the Rivoli Ballroom in Crofton Park for the last 40 years and against the odds has kept it alive ...

Ruth Ellis drama at the Rivoli

Mar

9

2025

New ITV drama 'A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story' is a fictionalisation of the life and death of the last woman to be executed in Britain. She was hanged for murder in 1955.Ellis lived for a while as a teenager at 7 Herne Hill Road, while working at the Locarno ballroom in Streatham. In recreating ...

Ruth Ellis drama at the Rivoli

Mar

9

2025

New ITV drama 'A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story' is a fictionalisation of the life and death of the last woman to be executed in Britain. She was hanged for murder in 1955.Ellis lived for a while as a teenager at 7 Herne Hill Road, while working at the Locarno ballroom in Streatham. In recreating ...

Ted Lasso at the Rivoli

Apr

11

2023

Finally catching up with Ted Lasso, and pleased to spot a scene filmed at the Rivoli Ballroom in Crofton Park. In series one there's an episode based around an AFC Richmond charity gala and guess they needed somewhere with red velvet walls and chandeliers like many before them.Ted Lasson (Jason Sudeikis) gets a round inRebecca ...

Ted Lasso at the Rivoli

Apr

11

2023

Finally catching up with Ted Lasso, and pleased to spot a scene filmed at the Rivoli Ballroom in Crofton Park. In series one there's an episode based around an AFC Richmond charity gala and guess they needed somewhere with red velvet walls and chandeliers like many before them.Ted Lasson (Jason Sudeikis) gets a round inRebecca ...

‘Close to Me’ – Christopher Eccleston and Connie Nielsen in the Rivoli

Nov

17

2021

Channel 4 drama 'Close to Me' is the latest to make use of the Rivoli Ballroom as a location. In the story a fundraising event for refugees in Hastings actually takes place in Brockley Road SE4. Sometime Dr Who Christopher Eccleston and Danish actor Connie Nielsen - sometime Queen Hipployta in the DC universe - ...

Music Monday: Broadside Hacks

Sep

20

2021

Broadside Hacks is a new 'London-based collective committed to the celebration and perpetuation of folk music', with a great new album out, 'Songs Without Authors Vol.1'. The collective have been doing a folk session at Skehans (Kitto Road SE14) and a video for one of the tracks - Willie of Winsbury by Katy J Pearson & ...

Kylie Minogue at the Rivoli

Dec

27

2019

Kylie's Secret Night, shown on Channel 4 over Christmas 2019, showed everyone's favourite Aussie pop star staging a surprize night for fans, hosted by Alan Carr. And where better to do it than the Rivoli Ballroom in Crofton Park, where so many others have trod - Rihanna, Lana del Ray, Elton John, Tina Turner, Oasis, ...

Crofton Park Pictures at The Rivoli

May

1

2017

The Shining is playing on October 25thSmile, you son of a bitch! Crofton Park Pictures is screening classic movies, including Jaws and A Nightmare on Elm Street at the Rivoli Ballroom (the perfect setting for a pop-up cinema experience) later this year.The season starts on June 22nd with Jaws and ends on October 27th with ...

United Kingdom: David Oyelowo & Rosamund Pike in the Rivoli

Nov

10

2016

'United Kingdom' is a new movie starring David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike, based on the true-life interracial romance between Seretse Khama (first president of Botswana) and his wife Ruth Williams. The couple first met in London in the 1940s, and the film seems to have used the Rivoli Ballroom as a location for some of ...

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RIP Charles Gallagher (Dog & Bell) and Bill Mannix (Rivoli Ballroom)

Ruth Ellis drama at the Rivoli

Ruth Ellis drama at the Rivoli

Ted Lasso at the Rivoli

Ted Lasso at the Rivoli

‘Close to Me’ – Christopher Eccleston and Connie Nielsen in the Rivoli

Music Monday: Broadside Hacks

Kylie Minogue at the Rivoli

Crofton Park Pictures at The Rivoli

United Kingdom: David Oyelowo & Rosamund Pike in the Rivoli