I can't find the words of Alan Bell's song, but he has created a website to celebrate the launch of his new CD which includes "The Lakeland Fiddler".

In his notes to the songs on the CD "The Definitive Collection" he writes about 'Bill' Irwin, the Lakeland Fiddler, and goes on to say;
"Thanks to the Victorian song collector Anne Gilchrist, Bill Irwin's tune books were lodged in the library of English Folk Dance and Song Society in London in 1954. I found them in the 1960's."

This suggests that the missing manuscripts were not mislaid by Frank Kidson, or Anne Gilchrist, but that they may have been taken from the VWML at some time afterwards. Sadly this is not the only instance where valuable material has gone missing, and I can only hope that somebody besides Gilchrist made copies of Irwin's tunes.