Pre-1945, the EFDSS principally operated through classes rather than "clubs". Local county organisations of the EFDSS would have occasional song evenings .. recitals .. and song was usually a feature of vacation schools ... sometime Vaughan Willaims would lead the communal singing of folk songs. Post war, folk dance clubs started up and the number of song events increased.

I think one of the points my earlier message was making that the EFDSS was not totally absent from the post-1945 song revival. It often wasn't clear which direction it should be heading in, and as a charity had to consider its objectives, and its finances. But some people have written it out of the history books altogether and that's not a true reflection of what happened.
Derek Schofield