This weeks’ photo dates back 63 years to 1961 when Marie Murray’s immensely popular dancing academy coached hundreds of young Orange dancers. It shows Mrs Murray and some of her many ballet pupils with a trophy they won in a recent competition. Besides ballet, pupils could learn tap dancing and Scottish dancing.

Photo courtesy of the CWD Negative Collection, Orange & District Historical Society. The society holds a working day each Wednesday from 10.30am to 4pm, with a lunch break from 12.30-1.30pm, at 148 March Street. Volunteers are available to answer historical inquiries from the public at that time.