Berkshire Midsummer Folk Festival Our own local festival, originally held in a field at Whitehouse Farm, Spencer's Wood (just south of what is now Junction 11 of ...
Christchurch Festival The have some photos from 1970 Looks like a procession. Linda Heneghan and Julia Feeney danced with us on more than one occassion. ...
Contacts The reunion event in September 2004 was organised by Brian Jones with help from several other people, particularly Judy Jones Andrew Findlay Steve Edward...
English and Scottish Dancing Whilst our main team performances were at festivals there were other occasions when we got together to perform. Rag Day 1967 After t...
IVFDF The Inter Varsity Folk Dance Festival has been an important feature of the Spring term since 1951. This makes it the longest running festival in the UK! IVF...
Important Information This is a community created website. Anyone who has been a member of RUUFDS can register, and registered users can edit almost any page. Thi...
In Memory We regret that these RUUFDS people are no longer with us: John Leary Ex Treasurer of RUUFDS died 29th March 2007. He was an intelligent, fun loving man...
IVFDF 1982 Reading volunteered to take on IVFDF after the financial disaster at Leeds the previous year. We said we would run it on a shoestring, but in the event...
Letter to the University Arts Committee IVFDF 1982 was starting from a very low bank balance at least it was positive in the end: we had half expected to start ...
Draft notes on running IVFDF At the end of IVFDF 1982 the team at Reading got together and wrote some notes to help future organisers. This is a late draft. Mai...
IVFDF 1982 programme The programme leaflet and all other artwork for the festival was designed by Tom Keeley, a student in the Typography department. The lion is ...
IVFDF 1972 This was held at Durham University on 12th February * The English Team Chris Metherell, Steve Pratt, Janet Hargreaves, ??, Steve Lewis, Alan Pi...
IVFDF 1980 IVFDF 1980 was held in Durham, using University buildings and a large hall in town. I have vivid memories of sitting at the edge of the floor and feeli...
IVFDF 1967 The Playford Team arrives The was the first appearance of the Playford Team in costume. Front row Kathy House, Jill Searle, Barbara Giles,...
IVFDF Hull 1968 IVFDF was held at Hull University in 1968. Reading sent a team, but who were they? The scrapbook came up with these. Front row Angela Rowe,...
IVFDF 1981 IVFDF 1981 was held at Leeds University This was the closest that IVFDF ever came to going bust, which led to Reading staging a rescue festival in 1982...
IVFDF 1966 The 1966 IVFDF was held in Liverpool. We travelled up by coach and stood for a photo on the Pier Head How many names can you put to the faces...
IVFDF 1962 This photo was scanned in at the September 2004 reunion. That has to be Paddy O'Neil in the centre at the front! Colin Robertson has now (16th May...
IVFDF 1977 Held at Manchester on 26th February 1977. Photos supplied by Sharon Pointeer (Latty): * Adrian Pell with Anne Southgate: * Peter Sparling w...
IVFDF 1971 This was held at Nottingham University on 6th February * The Playford Team Alan Pitwood, Keith Broughton, Pete Gregory, Martin Johnson, Bob Wheat D...
IVFDF 1970 This is the first time that IVFDF was held at Reading, and also the first time that it ran to two days as there was a ceilidh on the Friday night. The ...
IVFDF 1987 IVFDF returned to Reading in 1987. There are some pictures on the IVFDF website. Can anyone supply some more details of the event? One of our own regul...
IVFDF 1984 Sheffield The Reading University team at Sheffield in 1984: Jim Crouch, Allan Charlton, ?, Mark Huntley James Fiona Edwards (Holland), Gillian Tyler,...
IVFDF 1978 IVFDF 1978 was held at Southampton University * 1978 Longsword team at Southampton: Kate Alcock, Sharon Latty, Peter Webb, Andrew Findlay, Liz ...
IVFDF Strathclyde 1969 Our Scottish team performed Brian Jones promenades Jackie Shepherd The dance required the men to 'lift' the girls from their left to t...
IVFDF 1979 IVFDF 1979 was held at the University of East Anglia * Snuff Dance Team: Back Peter Sparling, Peter Webb, Torstein Muldahl, Richard Baber, An...
John Leary John died unexpectedly on 29th March 2007. Graham Smith writes: Please permit me to introduce myself. I was at school with John Leary, one of your Pla...
Mary Isdale MacNab Well, the syntax of this website assumes that a word with a capital in the middle is a link. If you put Mary Isdale MacNab into Google it finds...
Marathons Setting the first record In 1966 RUUFDS decided to take part in the university Rag Week by staging a Folk Dance Marathon. We danced in the car park of ...
Members and Friends Where we have contact details for someone, their entry below will link to a page in the members only area and the information will be found th...
Other Festivals Dancers from Reading have attended (and helped organise) many festivals over the years. Here are a few to jog your memory. Please add in any other...
Other RUUFDS Trips The only ones I remember were to the Green Man at Hurst, where we would drink Merrydown cider and watch Brakspear (the landlord's large white p...
PhD Several members had them. Others intended to get them. Why does PhD get its own page? Well, the wiki makes links when it sees a capital letter in the middle o...
Photos of the Reunion Please create more pages if these get too big (ten pictures per page is a good limit) * People 1 * People 2 * The Picnic * Group...
Playford Balls and Playford Teams RUUFDS ran a series of annual Playford Balls for many years. These events were often held in Childs Hall, the Great Hall at Lond...
The Playford Team As you will see from the Inter Varsity Festival page we had a Playford Team in 1996 but for most members it was the advent of period costume i...
Planned Activities Friday evening an informal gathering. The venue will be decided when we see how many people are coming. The suggestion has been made that w...
The Reunion September 2004 About one hundred people came to Childs Hall on the 11th September 2004 for a fantastic gathering. The staff at Childs went out of t...
Sidmouth Festival One of the biggest folk festivals in the world. Held in the (normally) sleepy town of Sidmouth on the South Devon coast every August. See the Si...