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Thread #36295   Message #2838167
Posted By: Bonnie Shaljean
13-Feb-10 - 11:44 AM
Thread Name: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
Are you the AngieB that I'm Facebook Friends with? If so, Hi! As you probably already know, Roger Nicholson is no longer with us - he passed away just before Christmas. I spoke to Kay on the phone not long afterwards, who's dividing her time between London and Co Clare, and sounds in good form. It was great to talk to her again and we have threatened each other with mutual visits.

I remember the Sunday Irish sessions in The Favourite, plus a whole raft of others. We were spoiled for choice on Sundays ("...you don't know what you've got till it's gone...") and loved to go out playing, with a curry afterwards. Usual haunt was Biddy's in Kilburn.

I know there was another thread about this awhile back, which I don't remember yielding any definite conclusion, but this seems an appropriate place to re-ask the question: Anybody know what became of Roger &/or Helen Holt? They were living in Hornsey* when I first met them, with Meic & Valmai as their downstairs neighbours.

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*I think it was Hornsey, or somewhere around there. The building was called Eagle Court. Why is it that I have perfect recall about insignificant details like that, and then can't remember where I put the car keys eight nanoseconds ago?