MPX5122230: Rehearsals are going on for the transmission on April 6th of the ballet "Les Sylphides", with Nadia Nerina and Philip Chatfield. Also there will be soloists Julia Farron and Rowena Jackson. The rehearsals are taking place at Hammersmith Old Town Hall. The ensemble has been hand-picked by the B.B.C. ballet producer Margaret Dale and comprises members of ballet companies and ballet schools, Julia Farron (1922-2019) showing off some steps to ensemble, April 1958 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5122237: The London Jive Club in Baker Street is probably the only club which has a dancing school held on weekday evenings to teach not only ballroom dancing, but Jive, Jitterbug, skiffle and any other new dance that comes along. Every Saturday and Sunday the pupils have their own dance with a resident Jazz band and Jive records brought along by pupils and played on a radio-gram. Her long pony-tail hairdo swinging one way and her large medallion necklace swinging the other way Shirley Gibson half closes her eyes as she dances with Frank O'Donnell, November 1956 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5122245: The London Jive Club in Baker Street is probably the only club which has a dancing school held on weekday evenings to teach not only ballroom dancing, but Jive, Jitterbug, skiffle and any other new dance that comes along. Every Saturday and Sunday the pupils have their own dance with a resident Jazz band and Jive records brought along by pupils and played on a radio-gram. Her long pony-tail hairdo swinging one way and her large medallion necklace swinging the other way Shirley Gibson half closes her eyes as she dances with Frank O'Donnell, November 1956 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5122301: Coventry Retail Market celebrated its 21st birthday today with the cutting of a huge cake and sherry all round. The circular cake baked in the shape of the market was cut by Mr Arthur Frith, president of the National Market Traders' Federation, and was later handed over to the children;s wards at Gulson Hospital and the Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital, by Councillor Harry Richards, Lord Mayor of Coventry. Thirty of the traders at the market have been there since it was opened by Princess Alexamdra in 1958 The market was heralded, after its opening as one of the best equipped in Europe. It replaced the old market which was destroyed in the blitz during the second world war. Mrs Pamela Hayling, nursing officer at Gulson Hospital paediatric unit, Coventry, receives the cake from the Lord Mayor, watched by Mr Frith(left), councillors and market traders 7th November 1979 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images