Geoff Wood is alive and well and attends the Grove Folk Club in Leeds, which he ran for many years. He has described how he recorded this song in the Gents' at the pub where he found the singer, this being the only place he could do it undisturbed, but even there the singer's wife kept banging on the door. Whether he was the first/only collector of this song is another matter, but certainly he has been credited with it.