British Newspaper Archive

[mckha489]

There is a photograph of June associated with another article

“Tall dark & tempestuous June Massey, has I am told, roused the customers with her new dance “The  Rip” ” 

25 September 1958 - Manchester Evening News -


Full length photograph.    05 May 1960 - The Stage - London,

[hanes teulu]

The story may also have been covered in the Croydon Advertiser. I don't know whether it's been digitised. If not, you could ask Croydon Local Studies, who should have it on microfilm.

Of the 6 Croydon papers available on line at BNA, including the Advertiser, only the Croydon Times covers the period in question.

[Nifty1]

The story may also have been covered in the Croydon Advertiser. I don't know whether it's been digitised. If not, you could ask Croydon Local Studies, who should have it on microfilm.

Thanks very much Chris. Brilliant idea.
I will give it a shot.

[Nifty1]

Apparently June Massey the dancer worked at

Lem Calendar’s Buccaneer Nightclub in London.

I can not find any reference to it, can anybody else?

[GR2]

It was in Meard Street (off Wardour Street) in Soho. The full name of the proprietor (from an account of him being stabbed in 1857) was Lenvall Callendar.