We first met Bill when he used to attend a folk club we went to at The White Horse, Seagrave just after we got back into singing.

He would regularly finish the evening with a rendition of John Tamms' "Rolling Home"

One night he announced that he was going to set up his own club and this led to the Grand Union first at Barrow on Soar and later at the Horse and Trumpet Sileby.

It was an amazing success story with monthly singaround, guest night and, later, a tunes session run by Bill's wife, Jenn as well as other one off events

The guest nights were of an amazing quality and the club maintained high audience figures when others were struggling.

The club also hosted the Leicester Folk Diary set up by Pete Burnham and, of course led to the amazing GU4 which consisted of Bill, plus other club members Pete already mentioned, Karen Harris and Miggy Campbell - they played at festivals up and down the country until Pete and Miggy moved away - unfortunately only the one CD.

Bill was a great singer and organiser who put heart and soul into his passion for English traditional music - he will be much missed by us all.

I run a music podcast fot the Midlands area and will be doing a tribute to Bill in the September edition plus playing recordings of Bill singing with GU4.

Condolences to Jenny and all Bill's close friends at GU.

RIP Bill