Folkie Dave,

My evidence is that I was there, I started going to the Princess Louise around '57 and was there most Saturday nights through all the changes of venue until it finally closed in April or May '65. There were some very entertaining nights there, not the least of which was one night at the Horseshoes in Tottenham Court Road when Malcolm Nixon had to stop Ewan and Dominic Behan coming to blows because Dominic dared to criticise the way Lomax rewarded some of the singers that he recorded in Ireland.
Then there was the night that Ewan told Lisa Turner, a very good English singer five string banjo and guitar player who was doing a floor spot, that she couldn't do an American song. She told him firmly and politely that she wouldn't change her mind and walked off.
THAT WAS EWAN NOT THE CLUB.
It was quite ironic really, when Peggy first came here on a visitor's permit she earned a little pocket money teaching we Brits how to play five string banjo and Elizabeth Cotten style guitar.

Hoot