Good (early) morning,


As you see from the time of posting of this message, I’m not sleeping very well in these Covid times, so I decided to further my quest to fill in some of the details of my early life that will contribute to a memoir part of which focusses on how I came to be a “folkie”.
In early July 1965 when Summer term finished, I moved back to Yorkshire, since technically I was still living at home and being financially supported by parents. Before I moved (my friend) Paddy had told me about a “Folk Festival” (on the weekend of 16th July) at Keele University, in Staffordshire (a new experience in those days), a function about which I had no knowledge. He suggested that we cycled to the event, him from St Annes and us (My brother Stephen and I) from Bradford.
We arrived at our destination and started to take in the atmosphere, which was electric. There was everyone, who was in any way connected to folk music in those days (as I found out retrospectively) names I remember include: Fred Jordan, The McPeakes, Dominic Behan, Packie Byrne, Louie Killen, so then to my request:
Were you, or do you know anyone who was, at Keele Folk Festival 1965 and took photographs. I’ve been on Brian Shuel’s website and scrutinised the images that cover 1965-6, but to no avail.
I need your help please: