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Your
Memories of Blackpool!
New
DANCE magazine representative Vernon Kemp invites you
to wander down memory lane...
As
I write this my pupils and teachers are busy preparing
for another Grand Finals day at Blackpool Tower. This
is the climax to a year’s work for many medallist
schools and I am sure it will have been another sell
out success. If you attended I hope you had an enjoyable
and successful weekend. If you have not been before
do try to make it next year it’s a great event
in the ISTD calendar.
Medallist
competitions have been organised by the Ballroom Faculty
for many years. In the photograph on this page you can
see the scene at the Ballroom ‘At Home’
as it was called at Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane,
London. The Great Room was the splendid venue for this
event. The photograph is of the 1968 competitions attended
by 1300 people.
I’m
hoping some readers can remember the medallist competitions
from those days and would like to put pen to paper or
email me some of their recollections. How has the dancing
changed? The dresses, the music and anything else you
fondly remember.
In
future editions of DANCE magazine I’m planning
to write about The Standard and Basics Trophies and
The All Ladies Foxtrot Trophies, and again any memories
you have of these events would be most welcome.
There
are some names listed below to start you thinking!
Vernon
Kemp
Winners
of the 1968 events were:
All
Ladies Foxtrot
1st. Rosina Ross & Pearl Peddar
2nd. Marion Barber & Ann Dawes
3rd. Wendy Hall & Elaine Fitzgerald.
Basic
& Standard Variations – Lady
1st. Masako Shinoda
2nd. Doreen Key
3rd. Mary Hardman
4th. Anne Lingard
5th Wendy Cornell
6th Marion Brown
Basic
& Standard Variations – Man
1st. Manabu Shinoda
2nd. Peter Billet
3rd. Alf Brown
4th Peter Brown
5th. Willam Davies
6th David Roberts
DANCE
Magazine Contact
If you have any enquiries regarding the Ballroom Faculty
page in DANCE magazine please write to or email Vernon:
Vernon
Kemp
Central London Dance
13 Blandford Street
London
W1U 3DF
Email:
CLDVK@aol.com
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