Frank Duffy died quite a few years ago - some time in the 1990s I think.
I remember Meic Stevens too, now my memory has been jogged. He used to sing Cosher Bailey and could sing the Welsh verses ( Y Mochyn Du) too!
Of course Steve Heap was a member of the Valley Folk, not the Pennine Folk as I said earlier.
Jean Carruthers used to run the Bury Folk Club with her husband in the 1980s & 90s. I remember that was where I saw the Threlfall sisters do one of their first gigs together. Jean was the caller for the ceilidh held to celebrate Harry Boardman's life. Gorton Tank was the band, if I remember rightly. Jean's sister and her husband used to occasionally come to the singaround that Dave Bishop, Terry Whelan and I used to hold at the Ducie Arms. I haven't seen them for several years now, but used to bump into them at the Bacup Nutters or the Midgely Pace-Egg play.