Here we go yet again. I attended the skiffle club once at the Princess Louise around 1957/8 and then regularly The Ballads & Blues Association folk club 0rganised by Malcolm Nixon & Pete Turner which followed it. Ewan and Peggy were regulars at the Ballads & Blues club but as has been discussed so often here in the past they both decided that they would prefer to run a club of their own where Ewan could be dictator regarding which material should be sung. It was quite OK for Peggy to take our money from us on a Tuesday night and teach us how to play Freight Train like Elizabeth Cotten but if you wished to sing at the club on Saturday night and you were British then you had to put aside such thoughts and sing songs of your own culture. So for example if you came from Salford you could sing Aberdonian bothy ballads.
Sorry, getting side tracked. Ewan and Peggy departed the Ballads and Blues Club and formed the Singer's Club. 1961 was the year unless my memory is completely shot. They moved around to a few venues and I believe Jim Carrol has stated that they did at one time return to the Princess Louise after the Ballads & Blues Club moved elsewhere.

Hoot