Les Wilde Dancing Lessons

A Memory of Ealing.

Yes Yes Yes!!! I remember Les Wilde. My mum and dad used to go there every Wednesday evening. and my brother and I were sent along there for the childrens dance classes, I think on a Thursday evening. I remember the hall above the, was it a billiard hall? and the tiny little curtained booth where they put on the records, and the kitchen that smelled of gas where you could buy a watery orange juice and a club biscuit! I spent a lot of time at Les Wilde dance studios. My parents were good friends of both Les and his wife, whose name I forget. A lovely lady. When I was thirteen, I would sometimes accompany my parents on a Wednesday evening - but only because I could sit in his newly made bar and nurse a coca cola, which seemed to me at the age of thirteen the height of sophistication. My brother and I both took up to our first Gold Bar medal exams with Les Wilde. what innocence, what fun we all used to have at those childrens lessons.....anybody else remember that time? If so, anybody remember Gillian and Christopher, Elaine, Rita, Patrick ( I think from Neasdon?)