Muriel Chaplin was a dance teacher who ran her own eponymous school and was asked to provide ballroom dancing lessons at the Community Centre in June 1973. She arrived for her first lesson to find that the large hall had not been cleared of chairs. Flamboyant in speech and determined in nature, she remonstrated with assistant caretaker Albert Tatlock but predictably got nowhere at all with her complaints, especially when she stated that it was such a "menial task". She was initially disappointed when the first turnout was only Hilda Ogden, Ted Loftus and Ernie Bishop, who was waiting for Betty Turpin to join him. Deirdre Hunt pushed Ray Langton to also go along and he made sarcastic comments as Muriel likened holding a partner's waist to gently holding a bird in your hand. Perhaps as an ac