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Thread #121191   Message #2643748
Posted By: Les in Chorlton
29-May-09 - 02:18 PM
Thread Name: Pennyfarthing Folk Club Ellesmere Port
Subject: RE: Pennyfarthing Folk Club Ellesmere Port
4 or 5 Clubs ran at various times in Ellesmere Port in the 60s. The Jug of Punch at The Princes Hotel on Princes Road. Organised by Dave and 2 others from Liverpool, '66 -'68ish. The Young Tories ran one in the Traveller's Rest around the same time. Graham Proctor and others ran one in the Travs probably 68 -9. The resident was a young singer from the Wirral.

We ran The Pennyfarthing in the Travs as above69 -71ish.

I saw Christy Moore for the fist time when Graham ran it and later when we did. Alan Taylor was a guest a number of times for us.

I don't recall the racist incident you describe but it wouldn't really surprise me.

Thanks anyway Fred

L in C