Forster, Freddie

Clog dancer and leader of the High Spen Blue Diamonds rapper team.

He learned to clog dance, aged about 7 or 8 in about 1927,  from Jack  Barryman (or Berryman), a local dancer.  He learned five or six steps to the tune of Swanee River.  He was able to teach the IRT three steps on the 25/2/1981.

The above information is derived from  interviews with Freddie Forster on 8/11/1980 and 25/2/0981