Georgina,

Are you seriously suggesting that no-one in the UK collected in the field after Maud Karpeles. because "there were no 'Folk' left to collect from".
I think that output from the Topic label alone proves you wrong. What were people like Mike Yates, Jim and Pat Carrol, Keith Summers, Doc Rowe, John and Katie Howson etc etc etc etc doing if they weren't collecting? Surely I am mis-reading you.

Hoot