belfast - in your post above.

"Dammit. I thought that Lonnie Donegan was from Glasgow (a piece of stupidity on my part when you consider his accent). This would have explained his recording of a couple of rebel songs."

Your original thought is correct. Lonnie Donegan was born in Glasgow but his family moved to London when he was quite young (my source for this information was his cousin who I used to work with).