Festive Collection (page 2)

The latest dancing craze to hit Londons dance halls, which is expected to take place alongside the " Lambeth walk" " Boomps-a-daisy"

Tchaikovskys Nutcracker Suite is being performed by the Festival Ballet and since the cast includes many youngsters the ballet mistress has decided that the children must not only rest between

Open Air Rehearsal. Rehearsing in the streets of Deptford finds a ready audience for Peter Martin (13) of Alverton Road, Deptford - and his song and dance is often the talk of the town

Juke Joint outside Clarksdale, Missouri November 1939 dance / dancing / party season / celebration / happy vintage news archive

Debutantes at Queen Charlottes Ball. London. c. 1959

Ladies v Men at the New Zealand Golf Club, Byfleet. Mr G Hawkins and Miss Diana Fishwick. 1938 dance / dancing / party season / celebration / happy vintage news archive

A Christmas party in Nutfield Centre 1948 dance / dancing / party season / celebration / happy vintage news archive

Club for American teenagers in London. Sons and daughters of US Embassy Officials and American businessmen living in London form teenagers club with HQ at Winfield House Girls complain that little

Invitation To The Dance. This Modern Age... the girls sport beaters, the men a combination of traditional very English bowlers and the costume of the country-man

Folk Dance Festival. Lads from the country take a breather: their costumes are adorned with ribbons, bells and flowers. dance / dancing / party season / celebration / happy vintage news archive

School children are playing a prominent part in the Eltham Festival celebrations organised to mark the eight hundredth anniversary of the Parish of Eltham

Children Through the Centuries. Rehearsing a pageant on Weymouth Sands, Dorset, in aid of the War Emergency Funds of the Waifs

The Big Apple makes it debut with Billy Bennett. The Big Apple, latest dance craze of America, is to be introduced to the ballroom by the George Hale Glamour Girls when they feature it in

British couple win European ballroom Championships in Berlin. Mr John whirls, and Miss Rense Sissons, the British amateur ballroom dancing champions

Here Come The Morris Men. After dancing till dark, the Morris men dance their way into the Crown Inn, for refreshment. dance / dancing / party season / celebration / happy vintage news archive

London sketch club dance at the Wharncliffe rooms. 1934 dance / dancing / party season / celebration / happy vintage news archive

Ballroom dancing at the Hammersmith Palais de Danse 1947 dance / dancing / party season / celebration / happy vintage news archive

Dancing the jive to jazz on the river 1955 dance / dancing / party season / celebration / happy vintage news archive

Now its sixty cents a dance; Dance hostesses are back again at the Hammersmith Palais de Danse but times have changed since those 1939 days

Soldiers and WaCs dancing at the Old Casino at La Touquet. 1914 - 1918

Selfridges Ball at the Albert Hall c. 1925 dance / dancing / party season / celebration / happy vintage news archive

Children in a London council school learn the first steps in dancing. 1908

Raymon Newton ( left ) and his band at Scarborough, Yorkshire. 24 June 1931 dance / dancing / party season / celebration / happy vintage news archive

Entertainment: English Folk Dancing. Boys and girls, or girls and girls, clad in festive white, in spirited, light-footed dance down the street of old Heston. London, England

The Dove dance, Americas latest role. The fan dance, having palled on Americas jaded audiences, Rosita Royce has devised a startling new act

Butlins Holiday Camp. Dancing dance / dancing / party season / celebration / happy vintage news archive

Jitterbugs come to London. dance / dancing / party season / celebration / happy vintage news archive

Scottish Country Dancing during the Aldermaston anti-nuclear march dance / dancing / party season / celebration / happy vintage news archive

Dancing in a club in Paris 1950s dance / dancing / party season / celebration / happy vintage news archive

Dancing in the Rain April 11th 1954 Thoroughly enjoying themselves as butterflies in a good cause are these tiny dancers aged four to seven years from the Enfield School of Dancing

More than two hundred children spent an enjoyable afternoon at the Childrens Christmas Party organised by Mrs Madge Clarke at the Park Lane Hotel in aid of the Dockland Settlements

Slice of rich dense dark chocolate cake with shiny choc topping and candied orange decoration credit: Marie-Louise Avery / thePictureKitchen / TopFoto

Slice of rich dark chocolate cake with melted chocolate topping credit: Marie-Louise Avery / thePictureKitchen / TopFoto

Single slice of rich chocolate cake layered with chocolate butter cream credit: Marie-Louise Avery / thePictureKitchen / TopFoto

Slice of peach cake / tart sprinkled with flaked almonds credit: Marie-Louise Avery
Slice of peach cake/tart sprinkled with flaked almonds credit: Marie-Louise Avery / thePictureKitchen / TopFoto

Slice of light fruitcake with sultanas, candied peel and glace cherries credit: Marie-Louise Avery / thePictureKitchen / TopFoto

5 year old earning ?50 a week. Great great great great niece of Franz Peter Schubert, the famous composer, little Elfi is at present appearing with great success in Vienna

Iris Delysia with Alfred and Leonid Strogonoff. 1925 dance / dancing / party season / celebration / happy vintage news archive

Russian royalties as dancers The Princesses Tatiana and Vera Constantinevna, daughters of the late Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich

Famous dancers electric head dress. Mme Sakharoff, the Continents most famous dancer, who has designed a most wonderful head dress of silk

Esmeraldo and Pepito, the famous Argentine artists. 24 December 1926 dance / dancing / party season / celebration / happy vintage news archive - tango dancers 1920s twenties 20s

Miss Teddie Gerrard and Mr Harry Pilcer teaching Gwennie Seabrook to dance dance / dancing / party season / celebration / happy vintage news archive

GLASGOW BY NIGHT With close to 200 licensed dance halls, Glasgow Scotland caters for over 25, 000 dances at night. The standard of dancing his high although the war-time American "

Children being entertained by an accordian band while they have their Christmas breakfast at Crayford, Kent. 1937

Christmas dinner being served at Queen Marys hospital, Sidcup, Kent. 1937

Men cutting holly at Chislehurst, Kent. 1935

The Christmas Bazaar held at the Labour Club in Orpington, Kent. 1936

Patients at Livingstone Hospital in Dartford, Kent. 1936

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