"his partly explains their ignorance of other performers on the uk folk scene "
This presumes that they were ignorant of other performers on the scene - which they were not, or no more ignorant than any other professional performer on the scene.
You said you met him once (it made its way up to twice or three times on occasion) - you take a great deal on yourself, pontificating the way you do on what they knew and what they didn't.
You 'folk police' are all the same, telling us who we should know and like.
" I mentioned a few names such as Bill Caddick Jez Lowe PeterBond, they had not heard of them"
What a load of crap - Peggy ran a publication entitled 'New City Songster' in which she published new songs contributed by songwriters - several of them came from Bill Caddick
You are making this up - the source of many of the Chinese whispers still circulating.
Give it a rest Dick.
Jim Carroll