Photograph dates from c.1895 - the various posters advertise the last week of cake-walk demonstrations.
The Palace Colliseum and entrance were demolished in 1965 to make room for the architecturally uninspired Palace Hotel and Casino (the first licenced casino in the British Isles).
The Palace ballroom claimed to be one of (if not) the largest in Europe
with its parquet floor.
Demolished in 1994 to make room for an extension to the Casino.
The Palace Opera House is all that is left of the complex - now serving as the last remaining cinema in Douglas.
The ballroom photo with its obvious painted in figures might well reflect
what the proprietors wished it be be - however judging from the strictures
of the Rev Thomas Rippon in 1894 its early days saw painted women
of a different ilk.
