HORBURY JUNCTION

FIGURES OF THE DANCE
SlideCorridorArchesWheels
Crossing Gates SparksTurntableFinal Figure

Developed by the team in 2000/2001 to prove they could do a dance for eight. Figures loosley based on a railway theme. Why? Because Horbury Junction is a huge shunting yard. Railway buff? Just nod and say "I knew that already".

Memories Technically this should be the "Healy Mills Shunting Yard Dance", but it hardly rolls off the tongue does it. Chris Stephens, our resident steam engine buff, once became very exited at Rochester Sweeps when he saw a T-shirt emblazoned with "A Train Set is for Life Not Just for Xmas" on the front. Only when wife Vicky pointed out that the back of the T-shirt had "If You Can Read This I've Left my Anorak on the Platform" did he revise his opinion.
Phil Westley arrived in the hall one Monday announcing that he had seen this dance being performed by a side down South. Casually asking where they had collected/learnt the dance Phil was told that one of the team had been at The Kings Arms on Heath Common on Boxing day and videoed the dance. However one thing jarred a bit as lacking the spiel and hence a name for the dance the dance was being peformed as "The Wakefield Dance". Phil then admitted that having seen the "pirate" version he now understood how "Crossing Gates" should be done.