30/8/2017 2 Comments Rooftop DiscoWhat a wonderful way to spend Sundays! Tiled on the rooftop of Folkestone’s Leas Cliff Hall (LCH) is a large chessboard, and over the summer of 1933 the 5th World Chess Olympiad was held here. Playing for the French team was conceptual artist Marcel Duchamp but he and his teammates would not have been pleased to have shared the space with us. For them it was the click of chess pieces, the ping of the timers and the occasional ‘Shh!’ Not the same for us! Visitors to the same roof on the four Sundays through August 2017 were more used to the pounding of disco music, chattering people, shrieking children and peals of laughter in a scene to be found nowhere else. And there was never a single ‘Shh!’ None of us wanted to be quiet and we were certainly enjoying ourselves. It was easy to be happy when surrounded by so many heart-lifting stimuli. It seemed that everyone knew everyone or at least a few someones. As they came up the steps onto the roof, arms and smiles would spread. Someone would rush happily towards someone else and everywhere were hugs, kisses and cuddles…definitely my sort of place!
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