Being from Portsmouth, I remember on Isherwood and Pat Nelson very well. We (Tony Engle and I) were occasionally on the same bill as them in the local clubs as the 'Pint (sic) Pots', especially the Black Horse folk club at Havant. I once joined Jon for a gig, knocking out banjo on some of the Irish songs he used to sing. on was more of a comic and Pat the polished performer, but they were the giants of the Pompey scene in the early 60s. I remember that Pat had a car with a numberplate PN1. I never heard them sing with Diz, but clearly they did.

I was delighted to bump into Pat's brother at the Bideford Folk Festival last August where he was singing some delightfully quirky music hall songs. We then discovered that we had attended the same school in Portsmouth! I will inform him of this thread - he wanted to hear any memories of his brother, so he will be delighted.

Happy memories of my early folk singing days.

Tradsinger