Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
From: vectis
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 06:24 PM

Don Partridge is still going strong. Lives in East Sussex now.

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 19 Jul 01 - 05:11 PM

Pete Hicks from Farningham is now in both Skinner's Rats (as he always was, well, after the Crayfolk) and Slattery, and playing for Bishop Gundulf Morris. He just retired as landlord of teh Victoria Inn Cliffe (Kent, England) and married a nice woman called Val. She I think is the squire of teh Morris. SO it's fair to say they are folking most nights of the week.

Jacqui Walker of Phoebus Wakes is now my significant other, and Dave Bryant (to be seen then in most South London clubs - also know as the Tito GObbi of the Balls Pond Road, although he was always from South London) can be seen most fourth Thursdays at the Black Horse, in Stansted Kent (Not Stansted Essex)

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
From: DonMeixner
Date: 19 Jul 01 - 07:35 PM

One of the "Perfect" live folk recordings I own is Paul McNeill, "Traditionally at The Troubadour" I found it in a cut out bin at a Family Bargain Center in Auburn NY in 1970. It has been a treasure of mine for years. I heard recently that Paul had been living rough of late. Sad for such a talent.

Don

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
From: vectis
Date: 19 Jul 01 - 08:00 PM

Hi Richard Who used to run the Phoebus Wakes? I have met a couple of them since the 70's but can't remember their names. A coule into gallery music and harmony, very pleasant and helpful. Skinners Rats are still turning up at Kentish festivals and great fun to listen to and play with. Dave Bryant still shows up at regular intervals in and around Kent

Don-I still have a tape pirated from a record, of the Troub regulars including Red (sadly no longer with us) doing their thing. I also have a copy of their sea shanties record - great times!!!!!!

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
From: RoyH (Burl)
Date: 20 Jul 01 - 03:22 PM

Vectis..could that couple be Dave & Ruth Cooper? They now run a club at Beeston, Notts; on Saturday night.

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
From: vectis
Date: 20 Jul 01 - 06:51 PM

Yes, of course! That's them. I saw them doing workshops at Broadstairs a year or two back but by the time I had placed where I'd met them the festival was long over. Ain't it always the way?

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
From: vectis
Date: 20 Jul 01 - 06:53 PM

Don send me a PM with some details so I can get the tape to you. Swap???

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 20 Jul 01 - 08:09 PM

Glad to see the Strawbs finally getting a mention, Pavanne - I was beginning to think they'd been a figment of my imagination. Also I first saw the Johnstons (Paul Brady & co) in London - it must have been Bunjies or the Troubador I think. (Brady seemed irritatingly conceited even then, but still good value.)

Giok/Jock, Shaggis has been much celebrated at Mudcat - quite a few catters, including me, put him in the very top rank of instrumentalists, up there with Barney McKenna, Tony McManus etc.

Is Pete Stanley still playing at London pubs - the Good Mixer (Camden), the Stick & Weasil (City Road) etc? He used to live at Archway/Tufnell Park. His 5-string banjo wasn't much use on its own, so he teamed up with a variety of partners - Brian Golby most memorably for me. But maybe that's getting too close to Country for Mudcat tastes.

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
From: Greycap
Date: 21 Jul 01 - 12:11 PM

Fion, Yes, Pete Stanley's still going strong-I was one of the guys he worked with ( 6 years ). He still does gigs with Brian, too. Roger Knowles

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 21 Jul 01 - 03:02 PM

Dave and Ruth Cooper doing a lot of American sacred music now. Not really my bag.

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
From: GUEST,Jerry Epstein
Date: 21 Jul 01 - 03:57 PM

I have a couple of funny memories of playing at London area clubs in the late 70's (and early 80's). At the Crypt at St. Martin in the Field, there were often a lot of random tourists.

I had a booking there in '79 and a fellow from Germany got up to do a floor spot. HIs introduction was in such a thick German accent that it was hard to understand. But he sang a Tom Paxton song in perfect idiomatic American English! what an ear. . .

They also had a guy who worked the light board, and it was the only place where I would change from red to green in the middle of a ballad . . . . . . very artsy. .

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
From: Lanfranc
Date: 21 Jul 01 - 07:01 PM

Mention of the Strawbs reminds me of the club that Dave Cousins used to run at the White Bear(?) in Hounslow, and another, somewhere out west, called the "Booze Droop" that ran for a while under the aegis of one Rick Wakeman.

"It seems so long ago ...."

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 21 Jul 01 - 09:22 PM

Greycap, are YOU Roger Knowles? What a rich community this is! You too were memorable. And I've got a star-spangled album, featuring you and Stanley.

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 23 Jul 01 - 04:37 PM

Pete Stanley and Wizz Jones were the original pairing in my memory, but Pete was a bit like Clive Palmer, the minute HE left a group, they became trendy!! Yes the White Bear in Hounslow, off Uxbridge Road by the bus garage under the bridge, and there it was on the left. I remember being really gobsmacked on meeting Lonnie Donegan there, apparently he was a regular. Young and impressionable I was then, not young anymore.

Jock

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
From: The Shambles
Date: 23 Jul 01 - 06:53 PM

The White Bear Hounslow. Yes I remember Dave Cousin's (he of the Strawbs) club.

I remember a 'knobbly kness' contest there. 'Murph' won it. The judge was Mary Hopkin who knew a good knee.

'Those were the knees my friend'.

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
From: Micca
Date: 24 Jul 01 - 06:46 AM

ah, Pete Stanley, he was one of my Heroes in the late 60's in various ensembles... and I got the chance to tell him so. He Joined a Musical Instrument making course where I worked,to make Banjos as a full time student, in the early 90s and I had the privelage of hearing him play his first Banjo after it was strung!!!! and he is still MAGIC!!!!

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
From: BIG AL
Date: 24 Jul 01 - 09:19 AM

jeannie, I think that would be taffy Thomas's Magic Lantern that used to do the Long Lankin in that way

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
From: GUEST,Greycap
Date: 25 Jul 01 - 02:40 AM

For Fionn, I'm tickled to be remembered - if you are ever in Yorkshire..., drop in at Ripon Folk Club, the Black-a-moor Inn,near the racecourse, Sunday nights, Roger

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
From: pavane
Date: 30 Jul 01 - 03:30 AM

I just turned up an old tape which includes a song from one Jim Garrett, who used to run Loughton folk club. He wrote songs (mostly humorous, I believe)and apparently published a book of them. The title of one was 'Don't lie down on the sawbench Daddy, you'll get a pain in your head head neck neck body body'. Anyone remember him? Was he the one with the arrow-shaped electric guitar? (Sorry if I show my ignorance of electric guitars here). If we find him, maybe he will let us post a song or two.

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 30 Jul 01 - 10:01 PM

Roger, I took my daughter to one of my childhood playgrounds, Brimham Rocks, just this last weekend. If I'm that close to Ripon again on a Sunday, I'll certainly look in. And just extend this northern drift a bit further, have you any idea what became of the two Daves who once had regular Sunday night sessions at the Fleece at Addingham?

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
From: Kernow John
Date: 31 Jul 01 - 03:05 AM

Does anyone remember Chapter 3? They were around the clubs at the same time as most of the above.
KJ

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
From: Greycap
Date: 31 Jul 01 - 12:41 PM

Fionn, Hey, I didn't know you were so close - re: the 2 Daves, sorry, no idea. However, Addingham does have a first( I think )Tuesday night singaround in the pub just up from the Fleece. Can't recall the name off-hand, but it's easy to find. There's also the Lock,Stock & Barrel, by the canal, Tuesday nights, in Skipton. Saturdays, I run a small singaround at the Bay Horse Inn, Burnt Yates. Seeya,

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
From: Jingle
Date: 01 Aug 01 - 04:07 PM

I remember the Barge at Kingston, also the Cellar Club behind the cinema. Whatever happened to the Barge, I suppose it fell to pieces years ago? Went once to the Singers Club in Holborn where Ewan McColl was in charge and keeping a very tight grip on the proceedings. Peggy Seeger was wonderful, and he sang to her "The first time ever I saw your face". I have never forgotten it.

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
From: RoyH (Burl)
Date: 02 Aug 01 - 10:53 AM

Ah London......the clubs I used to visit, and floor sing, in the early 60's when I lodged in Hither Green and worked at the Glennifer Laundry on Bromley Road. Ballads & Blues, (or had it become the Singers Club by then?)The Unity Theatre, The Witches Cauldron...that was held on a Sunday afternoon, but I can't remember where, and the Troub of course. Bungies. Later years I sang at The Rose, Islington, Marquis of Clanricarde (The BBC Club), The Enterprise, Chalk Farm Road, in the days of Don Bonito & company, always a favourite club, Croydon folk club,Dingles, another favourite, The Rising Sun, Catford, Swan & Sugarloaf, Croydon, The Goat, St Albans, etc.etc. Memories. Speaking of memories.....Hello Roger Knowles, I remember sharing the bill with you at the MSG donkey's years ago. I remember your wife,Eileen?, being a good ballad singer. Great days, and the music still rolls on!

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
From: pavane
Date: 02 Aug 01 - 11:11 AM

I remember a blues club in a cellar called the Witches Cauldron, somewhere in North London - would that be likely to be the one?

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
From: RoyH (Burl)
Date: 02 Aug 01 - 11:32 AM

Yes it could well have been. They had folk sessions on Sundays but the cellar got used as a function room, could've had blues in there. I still can't recall the locality. Heard the likes of Redd Sullivan, Marion Gray, and a very young Martin Carthy there. they were good sessions.

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
From: GUEST,Skiffle fan
Date: 02 Aug 01 - 05:02 PM

If I remember rightly the Witches Cauldron was in Hamstead. And Phoebus Awakes in Catford was I think originally founded by Eddie Dunmore, Martin Hazel, Dave and Toni Arthur and The Coven Band (John Bush -Kate's brother- on concertina). Later Dave Cooper took over. Re. the Two Daves - Dave Trenow is up around Chelmsford and is a fine painter, a few years ago he had a Green Man exhibition. Re. the Crypt at St Martin's, wasn't the guy with the lava lamps Ron Geesin? Re Don Partridge, usually seen at the Seaford, East Sussex, Friday folk club., still busking after all these years. Re Ray Sharpe, mandolin. Is he the Ray from the Hickory Nuts? If so he's alive and well and living around Caterham area. Dennis O'Brian, ah yes, I remember him well. Also Sean McCarthy from the Crubeen Club, at Wandsworth, who wrote Red Haired Mary, and went back to Ireland and became a successful ~Club or Studio owner. He was one of the first club organisers to 'spot' and book Bob and Carol Pegg, and Dave and Toni Arthur back in the early 60s. Re Al Stewart, first London peformance as floor spot in the folk club held under a Wimpy Bar in Tooting. He'd just arrived in London from Southampton, or somewhere down that way, mid-sixties.

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
From: Greycap
Date: 03 Aug 01 - 12:46 PM

Burl, You got a great memory - yep, Eileen and I are still together, 36 years,we are still singing & playing. Come and see us if you are near Ripon.

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
From: GUEST,Chris Evans
Date: 06 Sep 09 - 01:22 PM

In 1967 and 1968 I ran a folk club at the Greyhound on Fulham Pallace Road. I worked mainly with a guy called Pete Darling. Guests at the club included, Alex Campbell, The Young Tradition, Dave and Toni Arthur, Johnny Silvo, Shirley Collins, Stefan Grossman. The Strawbs, Noel Murphy. Finbar and Eddie Furrey. Does anyone remember?

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
From: Fidjit
Date: 06 Sep 09 - 04:10 PM

'66 - '68. '69 - 72 ish
Club at Hampstead where I asked Shirley Collins to sing a cheerful song.

The Troub of course. Johnny Silvo borrowed my guitar and broke a string.

Mike Absolem had a club in the cellar of a church in Battersea.
Heard Alex Campbell there.
Islington, Dave and Tony Arthur
HammersmithBroadway where I heard Ralph McTell, but that was later.

Clapton Uni. Tim Hart and Maddy Prior.

Fulham where I showed slides of Vigeland Park in Oslo, whilst I sang Sidney Carter's Country girl. He was there and said I'd sung the Ralph Harris version. And so I had. Jeremy Tailor was the guest.
Was asked, "But is it Folk?"
Noel Murphy was everywhere. and with Shaggis.

Radio two. Folk on Two live at some theater by Charring cross with Wally Wyton, Jim Lloyd etc.

The memories are fading. I'm getting on a bit better book me before it's too late.

Chas

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 06 Sep 09 - 04:30 PM

Hampstead could have been the Three Horseshoes, or possibly the Enterprise at Chalk Farm, run by Terry Gould.
Mike Absolom ran a club in the crypt of a church in Bayswater
Hammersmith... was that The Prince of Wales in Dalling Road, run by Rod Hamilton?
Folk on Two, or Country Meets [Swamps] Folk, was in the playhouse theatre at Charing Cross, resident Wally Whyton [Ollie Beak] and base player Brian Brocklehurst, producer was Ian Grant. Different guests each week.
We're all getting on a bit.
JM

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
From: Mick Pearce (MCP)
Date: 06 Sep 09 - 05:43 PM

I was around the London clubs from the end of 69. As well as those mentioned above, there was also The Florence in Islington (Tues; before the Empress?) and The Fighting Cocks at Kingston (Friday). Several of the universities also had regular clubs. The Troubador I went to a lot (in 60/70, I lived really close by; usually went on there after the Cellar at C# House).

I ran into Dom Bonito some years ago when a group from Herga went up to try and support the poorly attended the Saffron Waldon FC! It didn't work.


Mick

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
From: vectis
Date: 06 Sep 09 - 05:51 PM

I vaguely remember tottering up to The Crypt under St Martin in the Fields after the Troub ( via a pub in a market somewhere) for a lunchtime club. I think it began at 12. Anyone else used to go?

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
From: Santa
Date: 06 Sep 09 - 06:08 PM

I used to go to two clubs in the early 70s: I saw Therapy at Surbiton but was more regularly at one in Kingston, where I remember seeing Martin Wyndham-Read, then freshly back from Australia. I don't recall the name of the club but the residents were Dunedain.

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 06 Sep 09 - 06:14 PM

I started going to Herga, my local club, in 1967. I also remember visiting Islington at the King's Head, Upper Street when the Stradlings were running it (I went to see the Songwainers there in 1969), Dingles, in 1970, when it was still at the Roebuck, and the Tower in Walthamstow.

Kitty

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
From: Fidjit
Date: 06 Sep 09 - 11:27 PM

Mike Absolom ran a club in the crypt of a church in Bayswater

Yes John Your right. Now why would I go the other side of the river.?

Crypt was dry. So in the break we'd go to the pub across the road.
Did my floor spot just before Alex and left a bottle of orange juice on the stage.

Alex, " What the F*** this?" To embarrassed to collect it.

Chas

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 07 Sep 09 - 07:43 PM

Anyone remember the "Nags Head Folk Club" in Battersea, opposite Garton's Glucose factory?

The first folk club I ever regularly attended, in 1965, after ten years of playing in a skiffle band.

I can't even remember the names of the organisers, but they started me on a forty four year odyssey of performing in, and organising folk clubs, sessions, and singarounds, and thanks to them I'm still doing it.

Don T.

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
From: ejerome
Date: 26 Oct 09 - 09:40 AM

i hope this is in keeping with the spirit of your site - I wondered if anyone was in touch with Peter Davis, who used to work at the Witches Cauldron 1965-66. Cheers, Erica

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 26 Oct 09 - 10:06 AM

Price's Candles were also just next door to Garton's. The conflicting smells were, "interesting"
Yes I remember the club, but both it and the pub, are no more.

JM

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
From: GUEST,Clive Pownceby
Date: 26 Oct 09 - 02:02 PM

To Don T. Yes, I went to the Nags Head in Battersea. Was it on York Road? If so it's now demolished (1980)as the previous posting notes. I saw Johnny Silvo, who is all over this thread, there in Autumn 1966. Sunday night I think.
On other nights, the same upstairs room hosted Kilroys Blues Club and I also caught Savoy Brown with the great Kim Simmonds on guitar there, a few nights later. Somewhere I've got a flyer which is probably worthy of framing.
On the same week's holiday from up here in the north-west, I went to CS House and paid 12/6d to see a bill that featured Carthy & Swarbrick, Shirley Collins, Anne Briggs and Bob Davenport. Blimey!!!! I thought it a fortune to shell out at the time, when I could go and see Zoot Money at Klooks Kleek for 7/6d! Had eclectic tastes then - still have 'em now.

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
From: GUEST,John from Elsie`s Band
Date: 26 Oct 09 - 02:05 PM

Don (WYSIWYG),
             You undoubtedly came across Tony Deane and Ted Smith who ran the "Nags Head" for some time during those years.

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
From: Tug the Cox
Date: 27 Oct 09 - 08:11 AM

In the early sixties my elder Brother used to go to a folk club on Catford bridge....anyone remember it. I later went to the |phoebus awakes, run by Dave Cooper, then later by Nick Dow. The YCL used to run a club at Forest Hill, then there was thr crypt, and The Bull (coach house) at Farningham. There was often a sing song in the Three Tuns, Blackheath.....a fine 'alternative' pub in those days.

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
From: Oldguit
Date: 30 Oct 09 - 04:54 AM

I remember The Nags Head Battersea in the early-mid sixties but spent much more time at:
The Nags Head, Clapham Common Old Town and

The Nags Head, Wandsworth Rd, near the top end of Queenstown Road. Anyone remember them?

They were both run by a big bubbly lady named Sue, I can't remember her surname, I think her father was a folkie too. I remember Peggy Seeger coming to Clapham and being introduced as "Peggy" she did a fantastic rendition of Scarborough Fair, others I remember, Jugular Vein, Mike Deacon, George Greenaway, Mick & Mac, Gerry Lockran (Half Moon Putney)Fred Kettle, Dave Evans,and many others already mentioned.

The Nags Head, a Popular name for pubs in Sarf London.I emigrated across the river in 1967.

Howard

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
From: GUEST,Rick Rutkowski
Date: 01 Nov 09 - 01:53 PM

Hi, i am not in touch with Peter Davis but I did go to the Cauldron regularly in 64/65 time and in particular used to go to see Mox and John Lamont. It started me out on a journey of playing harmonica and singing the blues which i do to this day.

Nice memories!

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
From: Leadfingers
Date: 01 Nov 09 - 02:32 PM

The Load of Hay in Uxbridge , through the later sixties and the seventies !
And The White Lion in Egham , which became Staines Folk Club at The Bridge , then The Pheonix !

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
From: Strider
Date: 04 Dec 09 - 05:26 PM

I was deeply involved in the folk scene from 64 - until the mid 70s when I left for Belgium, mainly around Wimbledon, Kingston, New Malden.
Started with the New Malden Folk Club in the Railway Tavern in 64 I think, which moved to the Royal Oak a year later. I met Sandy Denny in there a couple of times doing floor spots, I can remmember thinking what a great voice, and wishing she could tune her guitar. The Holy Ground (aka the Fighting Cocks) openened in Kington, and it was a great place over the years, decent acoustics, and a great singing tradition. In 1969 Dunedain was formed with Nigel Hall, Mike Huxley, John Rodd and myself and we opened another club in Kinston at the Castle, Fairfield. The pub was isolated with no buildings or houses around, and we used to frequently have a lock-in on the Saturday evening when we ran it. It was a fairly small upstairs room, and felt well populated with 25 people in there, often we had 40-50. At the same time the new malden crowd had migrated to the Albert on Kingston Hill. We had to move as the area was being redeveloped, and contined residency at the Fighting Cocks until we opened the Upstairs Coal Hole at the Prince of Wales in Wimbledon, in 71. A big and quite successful club, we could afford to have a regular diet of high profile guests but it never had an intimate atmosphere.
I remember doing gigs or floorspots at many of the clubs mentioned in this thread.
Another favourite club slightly beyond London was the Windsor Club at the Swan in Clewer Village. Another small attic type club over the garage or barn. The name Alan springs to mind, and quite possibly one of the best collections of attractive females in the regular audience that I can remember.
Great days

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
From: GUEST,eric the viking
Date: 04 Dec 09 - 06:39 PM

Sometimes the Thurlow arms in West Norwood would have a folk/blues night. I did a night there once. There was a guy called "Raggy Farmer" on as well. I left London in 1971..all those years ago....where has time gone? Anyone remember "Time out"? Me and my mate Pat were often listed (as Pat and Eric) in there in the late sixties. Wasn't it a great time to be young?(Rose coloured glasses?) So much good music going on. Very little violence, no-one had heard of "mugging". Then there was "The Cherry tre" in East Dulwich as well.

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Dec 09 - 08:01 AM

around 64 65 the cousins all nighter then down to ken colliers for the last bit janch renbourn ect and a club called le duce    or something like that of greek street where all stewert had it all top himself jackson c frank sometimes    the cousins roy harper more often than not   three horshoes sunday paul simon in the middle with one or to new songs black bull barnet alex cambell ect

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
From: Leadfingers
Date: 18 Dec 09 - 09:17 AM

I spent FAR too much of the Sixties out of UK , and when I WAS home , based in High Wycombe , getting into London was not that easy .
Different matter after I got demoobbed and had transport so DID manage a bit more in London . Even managed a few Gigs !

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs London 1960s & 70s
From: Kevin Sheils
Date: 18 Dec 09 - 10:58 AM

The early part of this thread dates from the days before I came to mudcat or I would have chipped in then.

Apart from residencies at the Cellar CSH and The Enterprise in Chalk Farm (although I was regular there in Tery Gould's days the residents during my "official" time were Don Bonito, myself and Marian McKenzie).

Most other North London Clubs I attended regularly at that time but I don't recall anyone mentioning the Hop Poles in Baker Street Enfield, Monday nights IIRC, Did an occasional residency/MC spot there.

The Tower in Walthamstow was mentioned, by Kitty I think, but the area also had late the Navy Boot club at the Lord Brooke and the Three Blackbirds at Leyton.

In between the Fox and the Empress of Russia mentioned by Ralphie was the Florence, which was mentioned, but even earlier that that, but continuing from the Fox, was the King's Head in Upper Street.

The Fox Islington Green carried on as a different club later, run I think by Tina Mullinger.

Someone mentioned running a club at the Greyhound Fulham. I remember going there and I think Dave Calderhead was involved.

And finally, for now anyway, I was regularly at the Wazgoose, in various venues around Stockwell.

Memories!