DANCE and drama teacher and former Tiller Girl Marjorie Rhodes has retired from her school after 33 years.

She will move out of Keighley but the dance part of the school will continue under her former assistant Lynn Baglio.

The Far East beckons as Marjorie retires after 33 years.

Marjorie is Hong Kong bound as she takes on her first overseas assignment for the British Federation of Festivals of Music and Dance.

She has been an adjudicator working across the UK for the past 15 years and for many years has entered her own pupils in festivals.

Marjorie was a professional actress in repertory theatre and danced as a Tiller Girl until she had a family.

She then opened her dance and drama school, first at Keighley Conservative Club, then Drill Street and most recently St Anne's Primary School.

Dance lessons will continue each Tuesday and Thursday at St Anne's under the leadership of Lynn Baglio.

Lynn worked originally as a professional dancer on cruise ships and met her Italian husband about five years ago while he was a musician on the same vessel.

The pair moved to Sicily, where Lynn worked as a dance teacher, then settled in Keighley three years ago. Lynn now works in her father's shoe shop, Taylors, in Cavendish Street.

Lynn will teach dance to children aged three upwards, and ballet for adults. She can be contacted on 01535 607602.

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