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In this episode Tommy Carson takes us out dancing. Its 1935and Tommy who is 13 years old puts on his Dads flannels and heads out to Dalgleish Dance Hall on St Mary's Street Edinburgh. This is the first time he's ever gone to the dancing and he copies how the older dancers move and hold themselves. He loves it and not only that he's good at it. From then on Tommy goes dancing every night and some afternoons. We get to hear of all the dance halls in Edinburgh that he could go to. Being in the army didn't stop him He visited dance halls in Manchester, and Liverpool