Josephine Bradley

It was feared that Josephine might be infected, so the family moved from London to Chorley Wood, at that time a rural village.

[3] In the overall World Championships for 1924 (professional), and again in 1925, Maxwell Stewart and Barbara Miles won, ahead of Victor Sylvester and Phyllis Clarke.

The ISTD formed its Ballroom Branch with Bradley, Eve Tynegate Smith, Murielle Simmons, Cynthia Humphreys and Victor Silvester as founder members.

[2] One of her pupils, Eveline Burchill, went on to set up a dance school in Dublin and also judged ISTD competitions.

He had won the Military Cross (MC) in World War I, as a captain in the 1st Battalion, the Lincolnshire Regiment.

[3] With record sales reaching 75 million, and his orchestra regularly on BBC radio (and later, television), Silvester was the dominant public figure in the dancing world.

[5] Bradley became one of the few women to lead a British band between 1920–1950; others included Ivy Benson and Mrs. Jack Hilton.

In it she and Frank Ford, together with Victor Silvester and his wife and two other couples, danced to Jack Jackson and his band.