Just a refresh to let you know we held our inaugural meeting of the steering group and have split the group into responsibilities for different areas such as sessions, folk clubs, dance groups, publicity, etc.

Les, I'd certainly like to take you up on your offer but I'll see you soon anyway.

We have agreed to make the archive chronologically unlimited, so we go back to at least to the 17thc and bang up-to-date.

We have to place some restrictions on geographical area covered for sake of our sanity. At the moment this is still under negotiation whether we limit it to Hull or include the surrounding areas. That's up to the clubs themselves and the 2 main repositories, Hull History Centre and Beverley Treasury House.

What constitutes 'Folk'? Well we've agreed to try to include the widest remit, but for items on the fringe we won't be doing much chasing ourselves, but will accept offered material.

If anyone (in Whitby?) has a contact number for Col Jewitt that would be very helpful. I know where he is but haven't got a visit to Whitby booked till the nice weather returns.

We are currently looking at April 5th or 12th for the reunion, and hopefully about 6 months away for gathering material and making a block deposit.