Oggie, here's one you will appreciate!

You are correct that Lincoln Morris Men didn't get invited to the festival. I checked with my Mum.

In fact Lincoln Morris Men and Lincoln Folk Dancers did a display in a hall in Woodhall Spa on the same day. This was memorable for my Mum as apparently she got left behind by my Dad as she was sweeping up in the hall following the display. This meant that she ended up having to get a lift home on the back of Andy Francis's motorbike in full "folk dancing kit".

The route back to Lincoln (and home) from Woodhall Spa goes straight through Bardney where the Folk Festival was taking place. The sight of her on the back of said motorbike apparently raised a few eye brows (and she claims a few wolf whistles!) from the trendy young things milling about outside the festival.

I do vaguely remember ( I was 6) several days of stoney silence in the Arrowsmith household after this event....... my Dad was not popular!

Paul