A POPULAR tea dance has seen residents pulling on their dancing shoes after making a welcome return to Uttoxeter Town Hall following a five year absence.
Carol Bradbury welcomed dancers to the historic building to mark the return of the dances after she was forced to find alternative premises due to the planned redevelopment.
Visitors from across the town as well as Stafford, Derby and Burton, attended the event with a speech from Uttoxeter Mayor Allan Chapman.
Miss Bradbury said: “To be back after five years is wonderful and I would like to thank the girls at the town hall, Lynne, Vanessa and Tina.
“It is lovely to see old and new faces. I think it was very kind of the mayor to open the dance and we all hope to make it a wonderful success as it was years ago.
“I would like to thank everybody for their support of the tea dances and here’s to many more.
“My mum used to come and wishes us all the best today as she can’t dance anymore.” The tea dances moved from the town hall in 2006 before restarting at the JCB Lakeside Club in Rocester, where they are still held.
Town clerk Lynne Brown said: “We are all thrilled to get Carol back at the town hall.
the council wanted to do it as it was always very popular.” Vida Parker, who has been attending the dances with her daughter Jean Barlow since they started, said: “I have been coming here for years and have known Carol since she was a little girl.
“It is lovely that they are a bit closer as I have been going to Rocester.” The next dance at the town hall will be held on Monday, February 27, from 2pm to 4.15pm and cost £3 per person.
