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How British ballet was born on Newmarket Road

It’s been a mission hall, a boy’s club and an entertainment hall during World War Two.

But in the 1920’s, 38 Newmarket Road in Cambridge became the unlikely birthplace of British ballet.

Milly Harrold takes up the story.

(Picture credit: Hulton Deutsch/Corbis Historical/Getty)

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