It's likely that it got into the repertoire of 'traditional English' music as now played by massed melodeons at Whitby & such places via the LP made by Reg Hall & Mervyn Plunkett in Norfolk in the mid 1960s. It was an issue of 99 copies (I have one) later reissued by Topic.
It mainly featured one Walter Bulwer of Shipdham in Norfolk & was in the English repertoire at that time, along with Bluebell polka, Endearing Young Charms' and other English stuff,
Compulsory listening for anyone with any pretensions to being an 'English' musician.