I would just like to thank Ian for providing the links above.

I lived in Guildford for a year or so in 1981/2 and always enjoyed the evenings at Shackleford. For me it rates right up there with The Longboat (Old Crown in my time!) in Birmingham and the Sun Inn, Stockton in terms of the quality of guests and residents, and in terms of the enjoyment it provided. Happy memories of many great guests including Peta Webb, Tony Rose, Eric Bogle, Maggie Holland and many others, and especially of the first occasion I saw Packie Byrne, who became a favourtie from then on.

I would like to think that a few of the 500 people who were motivated to write in for details of folk clubs after seeing these programmes are still enjoying the folk scene. That would be a remarkable tribute to the project. But I can certainly confirm that Shackleford Folk Club helped establish my continuing interest and participation.

Helen