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Stage, Film & TV Productions

Sadler's Wells Ballet Days

Cats and Phantom

Gillian Lynne Theatre

To Gillie, With Love

Videos & Interviews

Hirschfeld, Mac & Sardi's Images

Stage, Film & TV Productions

Sadler's Wells Ballet Days

Cats and Phantom

Gillian Lynne Theatre

To Gillie, With Love

Videos & Interviews

Hirschfeld, Mac & Sardi's Images

Baby ballerina (Copy)

Gillie's mother Barbara (Copy)

Gillie with father Leslie (Copy)

War forced the Cone Ripman School - later to become ArtsEd - to relocate to Loddington Hall in Leicestershire - 1941 (Copy)

Gillian at the cottage at Birchington-on-Sea in Kent (Copy)

Madeleine Sharp's dance class (Copy)

Cone Ripman days - Gillie is 2nd from bottom on the stairs (Copy)

Madeleine Sharp's dancing garden parties - with Beryl Grey on the left and Gillie saluting in the background (Copy)

Gillian with her dog at Birchington-on-Sea (Copy)

Madeleine Sharp (2nd from left) with Gillie (5th from left) in St. Ives, Cornwall - 1939 (Copy)

Gillie and mother on holiday in Sidmouth (Copy)

Young ballerina (Copy)

On the beach at Birchington! (Copy)

The family's removals business in Bromley (Copy)

Rehearsing Puck at Loddington Hall - Cone Ripman Dance School (Copy)

Cone Ripman principals: l to r Valli Cone, Gracie Cone, Olive Ripman, Lily Cone (Copy)

On the beach at Birchington-on-Sea (Copy)

Baby ballerina (Copy)

Gillie's mother Barbara (Copy)

Gillie with father Leslie (Copy)

War forced the Cone Ripman School - later to become ArtsEd - to relocate to Loddington Hall in Leicestershire - 1941 (Copy)

Gillian at the cottage at Birchington-on-Sea in Kent (Copy)

Madeleine Sharp's dance class (Copy)

Cone Ripman days - Gillie is 2nd from bottom on the stairs (Copy)

Madeleine Sharp's dancing garden parties - with Beryl Grey on the left and Gillie saluting in the background (Copy)

Gillian with her dog at Birchington-on-Sea (Copy)

Madeleine Sharp (2nd from left) with Gillie (5th from left) in St. Ives, Cornwall - 1939 (Copy)

Gillie and mother on holiday in Sidmouth (Copy)

Young ballerina (Copy)

On the beach at Birchington! (Copy)

The family's removals business in Bromley (Copy)

Rehearsing Puck at Loddington Hall - Cone Ripman Dance School (Copy)

Cone Ripman principals: l to r Valli Cone, Gracie Cone, Olive Ripman, Lily Cone (Copy)

On the beach at Birchington-on-Sea (Copy)

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