Dancing

A Memory of Dewsbury.

I so remember the Town Hall dances that used to be held on Saturday nights. Being able to go to a dance at age 14 was so grown up. Sometimes if we were feeling a bit naughty we would make our way to the Ben Riley dance hall which was round the back of where HSB Bank is. The only reason we got in was because my mother's younger brother was a bouncer on the door we knew we would get looked after though we never so any trouble. There we we were two little mods surrounded by all these rockers. Though if my parents had known we had been, mum's brother or not, we would have been in trouble for some reason it was a no no. We had to make sure the rubber stamp mark that was put on the back of your hand if you wanted to nip out of the hall was rubbbed off before going home. My memories of Dewsbury and being a teenager there are wonderful, it was a good time to be growing up. Dewsbury was a good place to live.