The Fred Jordan trophy is a set of horse brasses and is for an unaccompanied song from the under 25s. Lydia Noble was outstanding in a very good field of 10. She sang a song she learnt from her father about stone walling, the job she also learnt from her father. Perhaps she should be offered a combined traditional craft and singing spot at Saltburn!

We have have been collecting anecdotes about Fred from our friends who had invited him to their folk clubs, or knew him in Shrewsbury. It has strange being in the final sing at Bromyard where we remember (in the 1980s) Fred always singing the penultimate song, the final song being Amazing Grace by a Robbie from Cheltenham.