IT was the last moment of The Forum, a once-popular Oxford dance hall, in July 1965.

A demolition gang from GR Nixey (Contracts) Ltd, had already reduced the High Street hall to a roofless shell, with silver Zodiac signs high on the wall as the only trace of former fun.

The planks of the dance floor had been heaped in the entrance corridor, to be salvaged with any other valuable timber.

Bricks were set to used as rubble for building.

All that would survive was the entrance, due to be retained as one access to the site on which part of a £500,000 extension to St Edmund Hall would be built.

In its final years, The Forum had alternated bingo with occasional dances.

The last dance was held on June 19, 1965.