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Subject: RE: Cambridge folk St Lawrence Society From: GUEST,Jon Garvey Date: 16 Sep 13 - 11:19 AM Stumbled across this on Google. I was Vice Pres of St Lawrence 1972-3. I knew Syd Cassidy well. I've begun to pull some information together on a website: http://www.stlawrence.jongarvey.co.uk/ and would be grateful for any information or recollections people may have. Stan Kelly told me they named the club after the patron saint of troubadours - but I think they may have been misinformed! Jon |
Subject: RE: Cambridge folk St Lawrence Society From: MGM·Lion Date: 10 Apr 13 - 05:06 PM I think Dave may actually be a year or two older than me! Interested the band still keeps going, & Dave still there. Any of the other old members {Andrew, Dick] still involved? The Old Spring [or was it The New Spring?] in Chesterton Rd was a lateish venue of theirs. I remember them in the Union Cellars before that, and some other pub earlier whose name I forget. Might have been one of those which vanished when they rebuilt Lion Yard & Petty Cury. Which was your college, btw? I was at Christ's. ~M~ |
Subject: RE: Cambridge folk St Lawrence Society From: treewind Date: 10 Apr 13 - 10:23 AM Sorry, didn't notice I'd lost my cookie. (Anahata) The Crofters are still going. It's quite possible theirs was the first folk club I ever went to, in a pub by the river on Chesterton Road, when a friend dragged me along there. They still play as a dance band, and run a singaround session on first Tuesdays at the Boot in Histon. Dave Benford must be as old as you are... |
Subject: RE: Cambridge folk St Lawrence Society From: MGM·Lion Date: 10 Apr 13 - 05:26 AM Ah, indeed Guest [who, btw? I gather you too live around Cambridge]. But I suspect The Crofters are no more, are they? I used, 40 years ago, to run the Sawston Club myself. Your undergraduate days were 20 years after mine, 1952-5; tho I lived in Cambridge in your time, having returned when my then wife won a mature state scholarship & came up to Newnham in her 30s in 1963, and I have lived here ever since. I am 81 now, so don't venture out to clubs much these days! ~M~ |
Subject: RE: Cambridge folk St Lawrence Society From: GUEST Date: 10 Apr 13 - 03:59 AM I remember going to the St Lawrence Folk Club as an undergraduate in 1971 - 1974, but I have no idea how it got its name. The Portland Arms is still going strong and there's a new Sunday night club there, in the newly rebuilt function room (which I haven't seen yet). I also don't know if the University or any colleges have folk clubs now. |
Subject: RE: Cambridge folk St Lawrence Society From: MGM·Lion Date: 10 Apr 13 - 03:48 AM Refresh, just in case anyone might recall the society and know the source of its name. ~M~ |
Subject: RE: Cambridge folk St Lawrence Society From: MGM·Lion Date: 30 Mar 13 - 07:31 PM After my time, I fear, Roy. That was about when you were visiting me & Valerie in Cambridge & singing at my Sawston Club, wasn't it? But always a pleasure to hear from you; and many thanks for your interest. All Best ~Michael~ |
Subject: RE: Cambridge folk St Lawrence Society From: RoyH (Burl) Date: 30 Mar 13 - 07:12 AM I was a guest at the St. Lawrence Society in the late sixties (or early seventies). I remember a committee man named Sid Cassidy. Does that help Mike? |
Subject: Cambridge folk St Lawrence Society From: MGM·Lion Date: 30 Mar 13 - 04:07 AM In a recent thread on the Oxford Heritage Society I mentioned its Cambridge equivalent, the St Lawrence Society, one of whose founders in early 1950s was Stan Bootle [aka Stan Kelly], who was a year or two before me at the University, and of which the late Rory McEwen, the same year as mine, matric 1952, was a fellow-member. Any other former members on Mudcat? And can anyone cast any light on why it was called St Lawrence? -- which for some reason [unlike me, as generally, like Dickens' Arthur Clennam, "I want to know, you know"] I never got round to ascertaining at the time. ~Michael~ |
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