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Performance TitleEleventh International Dancing Championships 1963, in aid of The Friends of Jewish Agricultural Training
Performance Date31 October 1963
Performance DayThursday
Performance Time18:30
Main PerformersInternational Pofessional Championship Contestants:
Dixie and Helen Dean,
Tony and Dorothy Lord,
Bill and Bobbie Irvine,
Bob Johnson and Audrey Adams,
Rodney and June Chance,
Eric Lashbrooke and Norma Graves,
Sammy Harris and Diane Barron,
Pat Button and Gladys Fortune,
Fred and Joyce Boultwood,
Guenter and Heidegard Dresen,
Michael Houseman and Valerie Waite,
John Donaldson and Sylvia Dearden,
James Rutherford and Vera Watson,
John Irvine and Shirley Day,
Peter Castle and Doreen Martin,
Peter Keil and Patricia Edmunds,
Jack Parker and Jenny Cryer,
Kenneth Lee and Iris Boyce,
Michael Needham and Monica Dunsford,
Derek Gallagher and Yvonne Caswell,
Victor Mansfield and Valerie Forster,
Paddy Shanahan and June Wilding,
John and Anne Powell,
Ken Bateman and Blanche Ingle,
Harold and Pat Russell,
Tony Clark and Gladys Mortimer,
Windsor Hurd and Joan King,
Reg Borrows and Hilda Stirling,
Ken Raynor and Doreen Proffitt,
Peter Eggleton and Brenda Winslade,
Ron and Heather Turrell,
Horace and Pauline Parker,
Wilf Briegel and Josephine Franklin,
Norman and Jessie Grayson,
David and Joyce Harvey,
Bill and Pat Hoare,
Dennis Udell and Joyce Brampton,
Alan and Shirley Cray,
Eric Rowland and June Carloss,
Anthony Hurley and Fay Saxton,
Stan Page and Beryl Holland,
Wally Clarke and Wyn Roche,
Ron Stevens and Joyce Hollingsworth,
Douglas Stewart and Valerie Lown,
Jack Liddell and Jessie Davis,
Alan and Lynda Jarvis,
Andy Fox and Beryl Wilson,
Billy Beales and Pearl Allan,
Derek and Pamela Carlisle,
Eric Donaldson and Edna Branett,
Brian Cornell and Wendy Elliott,
Raymond Draper and Molly McKenzie,
Clem Hales and Joan White,
Anthony and Valerie Goodyear,
Fleming and Eva Horning,
M. and Mme.Menetrier,
Wim Voeten and Jeanne Assman,
Manabu and Masako Shinoda,
Tetsuji and Shigemi Kojima,
Don and Mary Derenosky

International Amteur Championship Contestants:
Bill and Sylvia Mitchell,
Terry and Janet Frowen,
George Coad and Patricia Thompson,
Ray and Sheila Tailby,
Ken and Gwen Henderson,
Robert Adam and Patricia Fletcher,
Geoff and Olive Bailey,
Phillip Birch and Norma Cowell,
Philip Wylie and Gillian Davis,
Alan Barnes and Janet Emberson,
Jarvis West and Irene Clay,
Jim Donaghey and Irene Harris,
Desmond Grey and Elaine Grant,
David Douglass and Bridget Powell,
Harry Graybine and June Colley,
David and Yvonne Osborn,
Harry and Olive Bilton,
Sat Estenaga and Janet Morgan,
Tony Lucas and Muriel Moody,
Graham Strowbridge and Patricia Carder,
Howard and Lyn Buckley,
Ernie and Myra Chatt,
Bryan and Edna Allen,
Gordon and Muriel Connell,
George and Betty Pitkeathley,
Eddie White and Beryl Singleton,
Brian Youlton and Janice Barb,
John Roberts and Anne Garnham,
Jeff Wainewright and Pamela Vowls,
Michael Gray and Shirley Mulholland,
Brian and Ida McNelly,
Charles Ellis and Maureen Canavan,
Graham Fox and Barbara Spendlove,
Stan and Irene Peverall,
Peter and Iris Steadman,
Byron Charlton and Pamela Perkin,
Brian and Pam Anderson,
Robert Taylor and Anita Gent,
Peter and Joan Hopkinson,
Maurice and Mary Higgins,
Norman and Dorothy Bell,
John and Pauline Soones,
John and Betty Westley,
Rodney Weeks and Sandra Warne,
Geoff and Doreen Best,
George Smythe and Carole Huson,
Adrian Leigh and Brenda Forward,
John and Jean Vickers,
John and Patricia Ann Janish,
David Turner and Patricia Owen,
Peter and Margaret Hitchen,
Derrick Squires and Peggy Callaghan,
Bryan and Barbara Price,
Roy Romain and Phyllis Brown,
Rex and Ruby Pike,
Ken and Doreen Welsh,
Ron Smith and Gillian Jones,
Jack and Iris Perry,
Derek J.Povey and Nanette Slack,
Ronald Hainsworth and Fay Coates,
Charles and Joan Butterworth,
Tommy Gray and Norma Saville,
Patrick Johnson and Vicky Green,
Tommy and Kay Patterson,
Bryan Isaac and Gaye Biffen,
Richard Gleave and Janet Wade,
John Moffatt and Pam Halliwell,
Graham Whitehead and Audrey Saunders,
Deek Green and June Aspland,
Frank and Patricia Lambert,
Syd and Vi Wells,
Harry and Jean Lawrence,
Mervyn Higgins and June Hunt,
Eddie Harvey and Joyce Asling,
Anthony and Christine Dixon,
Sandy and Maimie Scott,
Don and Beryl Oakley,
Peter Cavey and Pat Fielding,
Eric and Joyce Purcell,
Derek and Sheila Hillyard,
Thomas and Mildren Forbes,
Terry Fielding and Sylvia Rimmington,
George and Elma Steward,
Jim Baker and Anna Capaldi,
M. and Mme. Leon Leonard,
John and Ella Frederiksen,
Richard Timmons and Maureen Walsh,
M. and Mme. Quesnel,
Henk and Rita Holshuysen

The Israel Trophy - Latin-American Professional Trophy - Four Dance Cmpetition Contestants:
James Arnell and Jillian La Valette,
John and Ann Powel,
John Holloway and Doris Bruce Barker,
Wim Voeten and Jeanne Assman,
Leslie Poulton and Lilian Church,
Jack Liddell and Jessie Davis,
Martyn Goodwin and Maria Das,
Len Armstrong and Elaine Welch,
Victor Mansfield and Valerie Forster,
Stephen J. and Jeanne Lovegrove,
Tetsuji and Shigemi Kojima,
Harry Walter Tonkin and Patricia Viccars,
Kenneth Lee and Iris Boyce,
Manabu and Masako Shinoda,
Roy Devitt and Diane Quickenden,
Robert and Marguerite O'Hara,
Derek and Rose Bassi,
Bill and Rose Phillips,
Alfred James Freeman and Lillian Sullivan,
Peter and Marion Brown,
Val Gomez and Lynn Hayward,
Anthony and Valerie Goodyear,
Don and Mary Derenosky,
Ron Smith and Jill Stevens,
Thomas and Mary Traynor,
Bob Burgess and Doreen Freeman,
John Betts and Toni Tynegate Smith,
Roy and Mary Knight,
Walter Laird and Lorraine Reynolds,
Peter Cornish and Molly Berry

The Jewish Observer Trophy - Latin American Amatur Trophy - Four Dance Competition Contestants:
Keith Beck and Mavis Mary Pegg,
Alan Shaw and Anne Tinkley,
Brian Youlton and Janice Barb,
Dennis William and Edna May Cattermoul,
Phillip Birch and Norma Cowell,
Barney Conway and Evelyn Hislop,
Alan and Freda Moore,
Peter Davis and Gwendolyne Sales,
Brian Harrison and Linda Crane,
Desmond McIntyre and Linda Curtis,
Lawrence Franks and June Poynter,
John Brogan and Valerie Retter,
Peter Wagner and Brenda Ann Smith,
Kevin and Joan Payne,
John Richard and Maureen Anne Moase,
Leonard Arthur Twaites and Betty Tiller,
Henry William Bradbury and Jennifer Rees,
Roy and Sheila French,
Ian McQueen and Annette Shemans,
James McVicar and Pamela Peters,
Desmond William Walter Grey and Elain Grant,
George Atkins and Betty Aldridge,
Ronald and Maureen Fox,
Raymond William Albert Sadler and Elizabeth Ann Fraser,
Ted and Pam Conway,
Frank Witham and Susan Ann Tarr,
Derek and Sheila Hillyard,
David Edward Douglas and Bridget Powell,
Frank Fronda and Sheryl Jury,
Robert Taylor and Anita Louise Gent,
Alan Fisher and Carol Frost,
Alan Fletcher and Gillian Kaye Tarling,
David and Rita Mugeridge,
Michael Stevens and Carol Ongeri,
Christopher Watson and Cynthia Wild,
Stephen Keith Dixon and Denise Mary McGrath,
Dennis and Kay Bell-Taylor,
Philip David Jackson and Janet Mary Harrison,
Frank and Patricia Lambert,
John Brazier and Patricia Perry,
Michael Spencer and Carol Piper,
John Arnold Davies and Barbara Jones,
Richard Timmons and Maureen Walshe,
Paul and Brenda Bishop

The Elsa Wells Trophy - The Junior Trophy - Four Dance Competition Contestants:
Paul Ian Wishart and Linda Margaret Hall,
Neville A.Smith and Jennifer Cockerton,
Stuart John Allan and Karen Spencer,
Michael Leslie Bateman and Pauline Pitcher,
Paul Patching and Lynne Rose,
Michael Cunningham and Lyn Nettleton,
Paul Timothy Harwood and Linda Till,
Roy Brooks and Suzanne Lesley Bowman,
David Bridgman and Christine Collins,
Richard and Ann Grace Smith,
Alan Hill and Shirley Seeney,
Anthony Savino and Gloria Margaret Dean,
Roger Dowle and Maureen Hooper,
Graham Victor Rogers and Pauline Froud,
Martyn Goddard and Jennifer Farmer,
Raymond Root and Frances Spires,
John Barr and Carole Lines,
Adrian Lynch and Gillion Chapman,
Graham Large and Lynn Parsons,
Peter B.Smith and Rosemary Jones,
Malcolm Knight and Madeleine Audrey,
Jeffrey Peter Whitbread and Teresa Daphney Freeman,
Kenneth Bishop and Pamela Hampson,
Peter Williams and Jane Alison Cornelius,
David Dean and Janice Jones,
Derek Weidner and Linda Norris,
Alan Stuart Nicholson and Brenda Whiteside,
Tony Stapleton and Patricia Ann Carr,
Paul Leslie Plumbridge and Barbara Joyce Rust,
Stephen Dennis Crossley and Pamela Marie McGill,
Jeffrey Howells and Christine Groves,
Michael John Gillon and Gillion Barraclough,
Kenneth Welsh and Catharine Owen,
Brian Harrington and Jennifer Bunyan,
Clive Parkes and Suzanne Abrahams,
Colin Heeley and Sandra Foreman,
James Arthur Hyam and Sandra Elizabeth Page,
Howard Paul Ellis and Carol Fieldsend,
Barry John Uden and Patricia Linda Howe,
Stephen Francis Lamswood and Linda Ekers,
Michael Puttock and Carol Dianne Downing,
Richard Byron Pape and Carol Ann Roberts,
Terry Sharwood and Pauline Bennett,
Dennis and Wendy Rooney,
Keith Douglas Piggott and Vanessa Benton,
Gerald John Lynch and Maureen Rumble

The Lawson Trophy - The Juvenile Trophy - Four Dance Competition Conestants:
Roger A.Smith and Wanda Turner
John Smith and Hilary Anne Coates
David Farmer and Andrea Large
John Greisen and Laraine Day
Robin Jenn and Rosalind Lacey
Michael Bell and Janice Milner
John and Anne Keen
Keith George Anderson Malpass and Josephine Darling
Colin Melhuish and Julie Gadd
Stephen Hillier and Margaret O'Connor
Robert Ian Bellinger and Linda Barbara Munt
Roger Metcalf and Wendy Tennant
Glenn Mellors and Jean Newton
Graham Foster and Barbara Taylor
Peter Alan Rowbotham and Judith Carole Hague
Steven Frederick Kane and Lilian Alexander
Richard Bridgman and Linda Richards
Stephen Smalley and Judith Alston
Martin David Pape and Angela Grace Turvill
Keith Rawcliffe and Betty Pallister
Keith Jones and Ann Dinarr

Duel of the Giants:
Leonard Patrick and Doreen Key
Secondary PerformersCharles Jacobs - chief scrutineer,
Frank Alback,
Ralph Joseph,
Alfred Klein,
S Pizer,
Cecil Sharpe - scrutineers

Josephine Bradley, Elsa Wells, Carl Carlsen, Gaston D'Erlimont, Leon Maetens, Sammy Osborne, John Wells, Phyllis Haylor, Doris Lavelle, Anne Letts, Hildora Mac, Gwen Silvester, Gwenethe Walshe, Stan Atack, George Begley, Sonny Binick,Billy Bocker, Ernest Brant, Jack Dixon, Cyril Farmer, Sydney Francis, Charles Frost, Wally Fryer, George Holden, Keith Jones, Henry Kingston, Malcolm Munro, Jack Orton-Smith, Dimitri Petrides, Tommy Rogers, Herbert Saunders, Len Scrivener, Bobby Short, Jimmy Small, Harry Smith-Hampshire, Charles Thiebault, Harry Tucker, Alex Warren, Jimmy Wilde - adjudicators

Peter Morrison MP (Minister of Transport),
Mr John Lawson,
Mrs John Lawson - prize givers
Orchestra or BandVictor Silvester and His Ballroom Orchestra,
Eric Winstone and His Orchestra,
Edmundo Ros and His Latin-American Orchestra,
The Del'roys (Ronald Coleman, Robert Coleman, Reggis Wlker, John Blunt - vocals)
Set ListInternational Professional Championship,
International Amateur Championship,
The Israel Trophy,
Latin-American Professional Trophy,
Four Dance Contest - Rumba, Samba, Paso-Doble, Cha Cha Cha,
The Jewish Observer Trophy,
The Latin American Amateur Trophy,
Four Dance Contest - Rumba, Samba, Paso-Doble, Cha Cha Cha,
The Elsa Wells Trophy,
The Junior Trophy,
Four Dance Contest Waltz, Tango, Foztrot, Quickstep,
The Lawson Trophy,
The Juvenile Trophy,
Four Dance Contest Waltz, Tango , Foxtrot, Quickstep,
Duel of the Giants,
Prize giving (Mr Ernest Marples),
'Hatikvah',
'God Save the Queen' (The National Anthem)
Performance NotesFilm footage of this event is available from British Pathe (Film ID 1760.17) Running time 1min 44secs.

The event was televised by the BBC at 23:20 on 31 October 1963 with commentators Brian Johnston and Elsa Wells and presenter John Vernon.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1963/166)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1963/166Eleventh International Dancing Championships 1963 in aid of The Friends of Jewish Agricultural Training31 October 1963
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Ietagielood_MoomEleventh International Dancing Championships 1963, in aid of The Friends of Jewish Agricultural Training1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/7891Wells; Elsa (fl 1920s-1960s); British dancer, dance coach
DS/UK/3643Silvester; Victor Marlborough (1900-1978); English dancer, author, musician, bandleader
DS/UK/6874Winstone; Eric (1913-1974); English big band leader, composer
DS/UK/2947Ros; Edmundo William (1910-2011); OBE; Trinidadian musician, singer, bandleader
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