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QUAY CORONETS
MORRIS DANCERS

      HOW IT ALL STARTED
THE QUAY CORONETS MORRIS DANCING TROUP WAS STARTED IN 1971 .
IT ALL STARTED WHEN JEN MCKEONS DAUGHTER DEBBIE WANTED TO JOIN A DANCING TROUP .JEN WOULD TAKE DEBBIE TO CARNIVALS TO WATCH DANCING AND SHE WAS KEEN ON JOINING ONE. AS THERE WAS NO NEARBY TROUP JEN TOOK IT IN TO HER OWN HANDS AND DECIDED TO START ONE UP FOR HER DAUGHTER , AFTER TALKING TO THE TRAINER OF A TROUP {STRAND STARS} FROM HOLYWELL ,JEN GOT ALL THE INFO SHE NEEDED TO GET STARTED ON HER OWN TROUP.
SO IT WAS THE SUMMER ON 1971 DEBBIE WHO WAS 8YRS OLD ALONG WITH ALL HER SCHOOL FRIENDS WHO LIVED IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD STARTED TO PRACTICE IN THE STREET {SUMMERSVILLE CLOSE}.
JEN USED TO TEACH THE 12 GIRLS TO MARCH AND DANCE  AND FORM A FORMATION .
SOME OF THE GIRLS MUMS ALSO HELPED JEN TO ORGINAISE THE TROUP
{NORA HIGGINS}
{JEAN LEWIS}
{ANN WILKINS}
AFTER A COUPLE OF WEEKS OF PRACTISING IN THE STREET JEN ARRANGED FOR THE GIRLS TO START PRACTISE IN THE NEARBY SCHOOL FIELD . AND THROUGH THE SUMMER HOLIDAYS OF 1971 THEY WOULD GO THERE EVERY AFTERNOON UNTIL THERE FIRST JUNIOR TROUP WAS FORMED.
IT WAS AT THIS TIME {JEAN MORRIS} CAME TO HELP SHE ALSO HAD A DAUGHTER CALLED DEBBIE WHO WANTED TO DO MORRIS DANCING
JEN AND JEAN BECAME BEST FRIENDS AND TOGETHER THEY TRAINED THE TROUP .
WHILE JEN WAS COOKING TEA ONE DAY SHE SAID TO HER HUSBAND LEN WHAT AM I GOING TO CALL MY LITTLE TROUP WE NEED A NAME ,WITHOUT A THOUGHT LEN SAID THE QUAY CORONETS .
AFTER A COUPLE OF MONTHS AND THE TROUP GROWING FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH THEY STARTED HIRING THE CHURCH HALL TO PRACTICE IN.
IN 1972 JEN HAD HER 4TH CHILD ANOTHER DAUGHTER TO ALSO JOIN THE QUAY CORONETS NICOLA {LAURENS & SOPHIES MUM}
ON THE 8TH JUNE IN 1972 THE QUAY CORONETS DID THERE FIRST DISPLAY AT ST MARKS CHURCH ALL DRESSED IN THERE PURPLE AND WHITE DRESSES THAT WERE MADE BY {EILEEN TARREN} AND ALL THE MUMS HELPED AS WELL .
SO AFTER THIS THE TROUP STARTED DANCING IN LOCAL COMPETITIONS AROUND NORTH WALES . THE FIRST TIME THE TROUP WAS PLACED WAS AT BETS-C-COED THEY CAME 3RD MARION MURPHY RAN THE ORGINASATION N.C.A CAME UP TO JEN AND JEAN AND SAID DID YOU HEAR RIGHT IT WAS 3RD NOT 1ST BUT THE GIRLS AND THERE MUMS WERE SO THRILLED WITH GETTING 3RD THEY WERE JUMPING A SCREAMING WITH JOY.
AFTER A COUPLE OF YEARS OF HIRING COACHES TO AND FROM CARNIVALS THE DADS OF THE GIRLS DID A SPONSERED WALK TO RAISE MONEY FOR  A COACH .
THE QUAY CORONETS IS STILL GOING STRONG AND SOME OF THE ORIGINAL GIRLS STILL DANCING .
DUE TO ILL HEALTH JEN HAD TO GIVE UP THE DANCING AFTER 17YRS
JULIE AND BARBARA  2 OF THE ORIGINAL GIRLS CAME A CARRIED ON FROM JEN AS TRAINERS .
JEN WOOD LIKE TO THANK ALL THE GIRLS FOR THE SUPPORT THEY GAVE HER .
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