Thanks, Willa.

Had another meeting with Paul Leaver at the History Centre. In answer to some of your questions.

Commercial material such as BBC recordings. The problem here is with copyright. However he will check again with his superiors; if the material is scarce and no longer available they might be able to get round this.

Whilst I'm on copyright it needs making clear who will hold copyright on all of the material so if you wish to retain copyright to such as photos donated you need to make this clear. I imagine most of us will simply be glad to have the material all safely deposited in one place without worrying too much about copyright.

Malcolm,
He is asking his superiors about your request to bring material to be copied and will let us know ASAP.

The material is to be sorted initially according to institutions being archived, i.e., Folk Union One, Rugby, Green Ginger Morris, etc.

I have a copy of their terms of deposit which can be discussed at the first get together of the steering group.

He is talking about a joint lottery bid to pay for such as digitisation, but this will be further down the line.

Once the material is well under way we will give musical performances at the Centre and and presentations on some of the material. I have already offered a presentation on East Riding folk songs we collected in the 60s and 70s.

There are no limits to the amount of material but such as banking statements etc will be shredded as the actual account books are all in order and present.

They can't take actual artefacts like the costumes and wall decorations but he suggested once we tell Hull Museums the Centre is taking all of the documents Museums should be able to take the artefacts, but if not we could look at the Club Museum on Humber Street.

They are happy to host a reunion gathering some time in the spring, say April, and I will try to fix a date with them, possibly a Saturday.

As I said previously, my priority now is contact details of possible donors/informants. If you can help with this either email me or pm me. 2 priority people I am lacking contact details for are Don Wilkinson (a rough address would help) and Col Jewitt. He has his boat Celia B at Whitby but I need an easier contact such as Stevie's phone number or email address.