Did I blame the Irish Times or anyone else ? I was just pointing out an error. The photograph was taken at the Ballads and Blues Club which at that time was held in an upstairs room of the Princess Louise in Holborn I was there almost every week at that time and later at the various other venues until the Ballads and Blues Club came to a halt in 1965.
On Eddis Thomas's web site you can see a number other photographs taken at the same time. Some of the shots include microphones which suggests that they were taken on the evening that the BBC recorded the session. The only time that I can recall the use of microphones.