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"Made in Streatham"Lambeth Walk officially recognised  as a dance

25/7/2020

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On This Day 26 July 1938 The Lambeth Walk- new dance officially recognised and made in Streatham

The manager of the Locarno Dance Hall at Streatham went to see 'Me and My Girl' and decided that 'The Lambeth Walk' might be turned into a ballroom diversion. Miss England, the chief of his dancing staff, then evolved the knee-slapping, the stamps, the turns and the shout of "Oi". Success was instantaneous at the Locarno and subsequently in the main dance-halls of England and of Scotland (where "Hoch oi" is shouted instead of "Oi").
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Source Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2014/jul/26/archive-1938-lambeth-walk-dance

Image Streatham's Kate Carney, London's coster queen of the music halls, practising the Lambeth Walk with her daughter Dolly, 5 October 1938. Photograph: JA Hampton/Getty Images

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