Enid Goodwin Dance School Perry Barr

[carolina]

That’s where I went on Friday and Saturday night and when the Plaza opened on Rookery Rd, we would go there on Saturday! Great times and all were within a meager apprentices budget!

We used to go Friday evenings I remember dancing to 'Quarter to Three' by Gary U.S.Bonds

 

[Richard Dye]

We used to go Friday evenings I remember dancing to 'Quarter to Three' by Gary U.S.Bonds

Walz, quick step, slow fox trot & tango!

 

[Vivienne14]

Some clever advertising. This was after my time at Enid's. I think "Come Dancing" must have helped to keep ballroom dancing popular.


Source: British Newspaper Archive

 

[Richard Dye]

Some clever advertising. This was after my time at Enid's. I think "Come Dancing" must have helped to keep ballroom dancing popular.

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Remember it very well. Mostly on Friday and Saturday nights. I was bronze and maybe if my memory serves me right silver!
Late 50’s, they were great times!

 

[Astoness]

if anyone has any photos of the inside of enid goodwins we would love to see them...thanks

lyn

 

[Out in the sticks Brummy]

Some clever advertising. This was after my time at Enid's. I think "Come Dancing" must have helped to keep ballroom dancing popular.

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I managed to get my IDMA medals for ballroom and Latin up to gold standard I loved going to dance

 

[Vivienne14]

Enid and Charles in 1949. Can't say I remember her looking like this but the photo would have been 10+ years before I went there. I thought she had blond hair by the 1960s.


Source: British Newspaper Archive

 

[Vivienne14]

Enid retired to Cyprus in 1987.

 

[Richard Dye]

Enid and Charles in 1949. Can't say I remember her looking like this but the photo would have been 10+ years before I went there. I thought she had blond hair by the 1960s.

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I remember the blond hair, certainly not brown/black….late 50’s.

 

[TerryLetherbarrow]

I went to Enid's 1955 & 1956 - has anybody got any photos of Enid's from these years? I'm hoping to find any presentation photos from these years if possible.

 

[TerryLetherbarrow]

No problem I'll sort them out it must of been the first dancing dating agency lol I met my first husband there too !!

Hi suebailey did you have any luck in finding photos of the dance studio at all?

 

[Vivienne14]

I'd be very interested to see any photos too.

 

[Astoness]

Hi suebailey did you have any luck in finding photos of the dance studio at all?

sue has not been seen on the forum since 2011 so i am not sure she will reply now

lyn

 

[Gerry Cannell]

Just moving on from Enid's Dance School, which my friend and I went to (Alan Bird) later on I went Madge Jenks Dance School ( theatrical) and spent a couple of years there. It was on Gravelly Hill, Erdington, and was run by Madge, and her daughter Judy. Did anyone else go there, or even remember the Dance School?