Country Dancing Festival

A country dancing festival was held every summer on Tonbridge Castle lawn during the 1960's.  All the junior schools in Tonbridge took part and country dancing teams from the fourth year (that's year 6 now) provided an entertaining, albeit chaotic, afternoon of traditional folk dancing for an audience of parents and teachers.

There was lots of skipping round in circles , and skipping round in inner and outer circles, and more skipping around in circles - not to forget the heel/toes, promenading and clapping  to the tune of the loud speaker music which was linked to a gramophone, or perhaps it was a tape recorder, but apparantly it was always crackly.

Does someone know any more about the festival?

Tonbridge Country Dancing Festival - circa 1962