Re: Knowlemere Street dance
 

No problem:alright:

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i had private lessons at a coat of 5 bob an hr with a bloke called donald knight a wonderfull dancer looked like he still had his coat hanger in his jacket clifford & elinor had it then no booze just nice coffee that was 1955 some wonderfull lads & lassies raymond halsall, rodney smith, barbara altham, jessie jennings, audrey her sister brian perry, after the lesson we got to stay if we danced with the 2left footed people wonderfull days great people a safe place to go as someone else said a while ago joe morts was not allowed for me went once it was dark & the floor was full of chewing gum couldnt do a whisk in the foxtrot

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:thankya:

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Is Violet a shrinking violet inasmuch as she has not the confidence to speak out loud? Or was she the sort of shrinkling violet who declined invitations to dance from ugly buggers like Cashy?

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I used to go the arts has it was called in the 60s met my first real girl friend there sad to say she died this year .......r.i.p. ......bridget ......and the long walk back to haslingden

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If that was B.V. crusader, her late brother was one of me best mates.;)

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I always thought it was called " The Arcs...". Short for Arcadium???
Have I been wrong all these years?? we used to say we were going up the Arcs!

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dunno we always called it the arts, but probably arcs would be the correct term.:)

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Always was th'arcs to me

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We were more formal in the mid '50s - always called it Knowlemere St, evry teen knew where you meant.

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Arts, Knowlemere St. never heard it called arc's

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Was both to me ... but always used Knowlemere Street myself, however, knew what was meant when it was referred to as th'Arcs. Haha .. time for a poll ? No ... don't think so.

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Seems to me a generation thing jaysay! us young uns called it the "Arts" n the owd gits called it the "Arcs" so theres no right or wrong.:hehetable

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That's probably more attributed to your deaf ear Cashy ... :D:D

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Hey watch it with that owd git thing