Origins
The club is named after Lucy Clark, an enthusiastic member of the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society, a professional teacher of Scottish country dancing and an accomplished accordion player. She taught Scottish dancing in schools in Rickmansworth, Beaconsfield and High Wycombe and held classes for adults and children throughout the area. In 1954 she started her own class at the Royal British Legion Hall in Amersham.
Lucy demonstrated footwork and dance figures while playing her accordion, which also provided music for the class. She introduced monthly Saturday night dances to a live band, attracting upwards of 100 enthusiasts. When Lucy died in 1966, her dancers renamed the club after her and we have been going strong ever since.
One of our teachers, Valerie Farr, devised the dance Miss Lucy Clark and it was danced locally for many years. Ian Robertson, the noted Scottish fiddler and accordion player, learned to dance Scottish at Lucy Clark classes and some years later in 2024 composed the tune for the dance. In 2025 the dance and tune were chosen by RSCDS and published in Book 54.
Lucy Clark started the club in Amersham, we moved to Great Missenden and danced there for many years. In 2019 we moved to the Wendover Memorial Hall where we dance now.