Little Dutch Girl.

A Memory of Welling.

I was part of this dance display in Danson Park. It must have been around 1958/59. We were dancing a routine about little dutch girls and I was the one in the middle. We were from the Miss Holdforth school of dancing based at Falconwood social club.
That was over the road and round the corner from Maryville Convent where I went from 1958 - 1964.
We'd usually have about three lessons a week. We'd go straight from school, get changed, have a sandwich and do our homework. Then after the dancing class we'd go home and then of course straight to bed. Was I really the only one that hated it!

I much preferred going into Bexleyheath on a Saturday morning to buy the latest hit record. Can't remember the name of the shop, but it was up near the clocktower I think. I bought all my records in there, from 'Lollipop' by the Mudlarks to 'The Beatles'
My friends & I would then look round 'Hides' department store, and go for a frothy coffee in the coffee bar near there. After that we'd go to the pictures at the Regal or the Astor and finish off the evening with a bag of chips.

Before I went to the Convent I used to live in Northdown Road next door to Deliah Smith.
I went to Fosters school then and my Dad sometimes took me to watch Welling Utd which are still at the same ground in Park View Road.
It all seems like yesterday and, though having lived in Bromley since 1969, I still feel I belong in Welling and Bexleyheath.
Both my old schools are pulled down now and flats I believe, so who knows I may move back one day.

Thank you for the information re the date of the image, we have now amended our records - Editor.