There was no shortage of couples when the compere announced: “Take your partners.”

Dancing was one of the many activities that took place at Cowley Community Centre in Oxford.

The picture was published in the Oxford Mail in September 1958 to advertise a major event in the Cowley calendar.

Everyone was preparing for the annual Cowley Feast which, that year, was being combined with a commercial and industrial fair, showing the best that the suburb had to offer.

How many of the dancers can we recognise?