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Carmen, Google can be your best friend. I used Google Images, just in case of a picture (and had to filter out a few things) and then found this:
http://www.directionstheatrearts.org/page.php?page=7
Welcome to Directions
Theatre Arts School & College
JULIE MARY COX FIDTA Principal / Director DTA
Julie started dancing at the age of seven with the Miss. Hancock school of dance in Clay Cross, Derbyshire. Two years after starting at Miss. Hancocks, Miss Hancock decided to move from the area so Julie joined the locally very well known Brenda Blakesley School in Chesterfield and it was their that Julie stayed and qualified for her first teaching qualifications The Associate Degree. Sadly Miss. Blakesly died in 1989 ...
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That info matches with the death info for Brenda Cecilia (Blakesley) Moseley:
Name: Brenda Cecilia Moseley
Birth Date: 30 Jul 1926
Death Registration Month/Year: Jun 1989
Age at death (estimated): 62
Registration district: Sheffield
Inferred County: Yorkshire
Volume: 3
Page: 1682
I think Julie Cox would be a very good person to contact for info about that Brenda Blakesley, and possibly photos. Contact info is here:
http://www.directionstheatrearts.org/contact.php
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And here we have Brenda's school, today. I think this is certainly the place to start for information about, and pictures of, that Brenda Blakesley:
http://academyofdancechesterfield.com/id6.html
ACADEMY OF DANCE CHESTERFIELD
Academy History
The founder of the Academy of Dance in the 1950's was Miss Brenda Blakesley who was an examiner and executive of the International Dance Teachers Association.
Miss Judith took over the school in 1985 after teaching for Miss Blakesley for 15 years and from that day to this the school has grown in strength and numbers.
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Again, searching some more on spec, on the assumption that this is your Brenda, here is something in her own words, a review of a book:
http://www.amazon.com/Flower-Festival-Genzano-Language-Dance/dp/288124145X
Review
This charming pas de deux is of immense value to teachers and students, who for the first time have the opportunity to study the actual choreography, and the book is very well-written and informative.
–Brenda Blakesley of International Dance Teachers Association, October 1987
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There is a FriendsReunited group for her dance school that you can join (you do not have to use your real name):
http://www.friendsreunited.com.au/Team.page/Brenda_Blakesley_School_of_Dance/18999/Details
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When you google
"brenda blakesley" dance
there are a few other things (you have to skip over the ones for a new-agey massage artist in Las Vegas and a bodybuilder).
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Carmen ... have you received the information that the surname of the mother of Brenda's husband, Eric Dale Moseley, was Simpson?
Name: Eric Dale Moseley
Birth Date: 11 Jan 1921
Death Registration Month/Year: Sep 1999
Age at death (estimated): 78
Registration district: Chesterfield
Inferred County: Derbyshire
Register number: B49E
District and Subdistrict: 3931B
Entry number: 46
In 1911:
SIMPSON MINNIE 1893 18 Chesterfield Derbyshire
Name: Minnie Simpson
Spouse: Thomas W Moseley
Date of Registration: Apr-May-Jun 1920
Registration district: Chesterfield
Registration county (inferred): Derbyshire
Volume Number: 7b
Page Number: 2428
Unfortunately, as I think has been mentioned, Eric seems to have been an only child. Although ... there are births in Yorkshire that I am certain would also be to that couple, 1922, 1924 and 1928 (you can find them at FreeBMD -- siblings of Brenda's husband).
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This blasted system just destroyed my next post, so I'll compose it again. There are some very odd coincidences here.
Name: Minnie Simpson
Spouse: Thomas W Moseley
Date of Registration: Apr-May-Jun 1920
Registration district: Chesterfield
Registration county (inferred): Derbyshire
Volume Number: 7b
Page Number: 2428
Name: Minnie Thickett
Spouse: Frank Moseley
Date of Registration: Apr-May-Jun 1920
Registration district: Chesterfield
Registration county (inferred): Derbyshire
Volume Number: 7b
Page Number: 2390
Two Minnies married Moseleys in the same quarter, same place.
Name: Eric Moseley
Mother's Maiden Surname: Simpson
Date of Registration: Jan Feb Mar 1921
Registration district: Chesterfield
Registration county: Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire
Volume Number: 7b
Page Number: 1560
Name: Eric D Moseley
Mother's Maiden Surname: Thickett
Date of Registration: Jan Feb Mar 1921
Registration district: Chesterfield
Registration county: Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire
Volume Number: 7b
Page Number: 1445
Both Minnies had a son Eric about 9 months later -- same quarter, same place.
But it seems that "your" Eric's mother was Thickett -- mother of Eric D -- not Simpson.
Carmen -- I would suggest you get the Blakesley-Moseley marriage certificate!
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Hi Janey
Just got all your latest info, a lot to digest.
I do have a copy of the marriage certificate for Blakesley-Moseley. It shows father of Eric Dale Moseley as Frank Moseley which would appear was married to Minnie Thickett. Address for Eric at time of marriage appears to be 57 eyre street,E Harland.
Brenda Cecilia Blakesley father was (Thomas Edwin Blakesley) Insurance Broker
Thank you so much for all your research will have to sift through when I have spare time, as I work everyday through the week.
Bye for now Carmen
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hi Carmen
I think had Brenda had another middle name she would have noted them on your birth certificate, if only by initial?
Am more of mind to think the one to chase up would be Brenda 1926 Pontardawe Wales - it looks like she never wed & as there is no mention in deaths up to 2005 she may well be still living (or moved out of England and Wales).
Brenda E had wed by 1944 staying in the West Midlands area
Brenda C born and wed in Chesterfield so why would she be in Blackpool?
Brenda of Wales has no middle name & is the only one who is unaccountable
regards
Ian
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Which would seem to leave just the dance school teacher who married Mr Moseley then....
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