Real folk songs,presumably you mean songs that fitted the rules of the singers club, which were singers must sing songs from their own area.
Tom Paley and Peggy Seeger were allowed to sing songs from appalachian mountains even though they were both from the east coast.
Still with residents like that and Ewan the standard would be high.
How was your right to choose what you listened to, taken away?could you not have gone to Cecil Sharp house Folk club, were there no other folk clubs in London putting on trad music?