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DICCONSON ARMS, WRIGHTINGTON GO TO
LAST NIGHT AT THE DICCONSON ARMS LISTEN
JOHNNY COLLINS & JIM MAGEEAN LISTEN
HOWARD BOND LISTEN
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THE GEORGE AND DRAGON, BILLINGE GO TO
HARRY BOARDMAN LISTEN
BERNARD WRIGLEY LISTEN
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HORWICH FOLK CLUB GO TO
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ALAN TAYLOR LISTEN
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THE BLACK BULL, MAWDESLEY GO TO
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SCOLD'S BRIDLE LISTEN
TRITON FOLK CLUB, LIVERPOOL GO TO
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DEREK GIFFORD LISTEN
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THE SHIP, SOUTHPORT GO TO
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GILL BURNS LISTEN
PAUL METSERS LISTEN
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THE BOTHY GO TO
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CRYIL TAWNEY LISTEN
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WIGAN FOLK CLUB GO TO
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PETER BOND LISTEN
TED EDWARDS LISTEN
dicconson arms, wrightington
CLUB INFO HERE
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LAST NIGHT AT THE DICCONSON ARMS – FRIDAY JULY 2nd 1982
(Recorded by Mark Dowding)
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Derek Gifford - Hal and Tow, Birthday Cake City
Mike Hughes - July Wakes, Petals of a Poppy, Liverpool Girls
Mark Dowding - First Day at t’Mill, Backbone of Leyth, Along the Rossendale
Southport Swords, Salmon tales up the river, Old fashioned mother of mine
Phil Hartley - My Brother Sylveste, Waters of Tyne, is that the moon
Derek Harrison - Rare auld times, Time
John Dowding - Old Hercules
Ian McCardle - Wild Rover
Paul McCardle - Is your love in vain?
Jan - As I roved Out
Martin Banks - Galway Shawl, Home Boys Home
Final Residents spot - Flower of Scotland, Coal Hole Cavalry, Manchester Chambermaid, Lloyd George, Farewell Shanty
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JOHNNY COLLINS & JIM MAGEEAN – SEPTEMBER 3rd 1983
[Held at Roebuck due to decoration at Dicconson Arms] (Recorded By Mark Dowding)
Titanic - Old Clog Dancer’s Song, Tailor’s Britches, Rigs of Rye, Tunes, Bedlam Boys
Johnny Collins & Jim Mageean - Poor old horse, Rosabella, General Taylor, John Cherokee, Admiral Benbow, I’m Marching Inland, Marching, The Liner she’s a Lady, Cyril said it all before, Drinking Song
Martin Banks - Forward and fight for Charlie, Galway Shawl
Liz Suddel (?) -A man who loved me, Catch me if you can
Ron/Ronnettes - Bright Morning start arising
Mark Dowding - Bolinder Boatman, Baron & the Busker
Phil Hartley - Hedgehog song, Treadmill Song
Annie Mageean - Why that thundercloud looms (?) Sandgate lass on the ropery banks
Derek (?) Smallpipe tunes
Johnny Collins and Jim Mageean - While we are together, Silver in the Stuble, Sail Away, Napoleon Bonaparte, Is the Big Fellow Gone?, The Magpie, Miner’s Life, Roll the Union on, All the Good times
HOWARD BOND - MAY 14th 1982 (Recorded by Mark Dowding)
Derek Gifford - John Barleycorn, Dives & Lazarus, Twankydillo, Early One Evening, Grey Funnel Line
Mike Hughes - Little Piecer, Cowboys Lament
Howard Bond -Frozen Rose, Man of the People, Maids of Coolmoor, Café Armageddon, Passing Cloud, Daddy’s Sauce
Titanic - Marie’s Wedding, She loved a Portugese
Mark Dowding - Stalybridge Station, Salmon
Judith & Friend - Larks Sang Melodious, Dancing at Whitsun
Martin Banks - Home Boys Home, Eileen Aroon
Phil Hartley & Sue Ainscough -Is that the Moon?, It’s my town
Howard Bond -Life on the Reservation, Grimaldi, Just another Ale Mouth, In love without you, Body on the line, Pony Express
the george and dragon, billinge
CLUB INFO HERE
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HARRY BOARDMAN (R.I.P.) - JANUARY 9th 1983 (Recorded by Mark Dowding)
Caught on the Hop - Tobin’s Resource, Spotted Cow, Johnny Jump Up, Fasten the Leg in (?) Blarney Pilgrim (?) George Brown, Rambling Comber
Harry Boardman (R.I.P.) - I means to get Jolly well drunk, Billy Suet’s Song, As I went to Aylesbury, Well I tell thee Dick, Lord Franklin, Owd Wife of Coverdale , Lass o’ Dalogill My Love My Love, Weavers’ Song, Topman and Afterguard , Soldier and a Sailor, The Unfortunate Rake, Pool
Bernie Forkin - Red Velvet Steering Cover Driver
Mark Dowding - Fine Old English Gentleman, Dirty Old Town, The Weavers’ Song
Illdanach -Homeruler, Kitty’s Wedding, Long Note, The Two Sisters,My Red Headed Love, The Geese in the Bog
Harry Boardman - Golden Stream, Cowd Stringy Pie, Awterations, Owd Hercules, Best o’ t’ Bunch, Rigs of London Town, Whaling Song, Bluey Brink, The Garland, Manchester Rambler, Fortune Turns the Wheel
BERNARD WRIGLEY - APRIL 17th 1983 (Recorded by Mark Dowding)
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Caught on the Hop - Merrily Kiss the Quaker, Come Haste To The Wedding, Bonny Ship The Diamond, King of the Fairies
Bernard Wrigley - Pie Saturday, Weaver of Wellbrook, Sam’s Medal, Martians Have Landed in Wigan
TAME - Whip Jamboree, Old Pendle, Spanish Ladies, Fiddlers’ Green, King Cotton, Home Boys Home
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Bernard Wrigley - Headmster’s Speech, Shuffle in F/Cheek to Cheek, Tea Bag in My Coffee, K.N.A.C.K.E.R.E.D
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Bernard Wrigley - On Again On Again, Brewers’ Droop, Vasectomy, September in the Rain
triton folk club, liverpool
CLUB INFO HERE
DEREK GIFFORD, APRIL 18th 1983 (Recorded by Mark Dowding)
Triton Folk - Seth Davey, False Bride, An old Man Cam Courting Me, The Riddle Song, Young Apprentice, Joseph Baker, Glencoe, Rothsay-o
Derek Gifford - Tailor and the Crow, John Barleycorn, Kent and the Keer and the Lune, Logs to Burn, Joe Peel, The Bellringing, Marching Inland
Triton Folk -
Wild Rover, Peggy Gordon, Marie’s Wedding, Bread and Fishes
Mark Dowding - Bolinder Boatman, Mr Lowry
Derek Gifford - Bring us a Barrel, The Nightingale, Haul away the Bowline – General Taylor – John Kanaka, Roll the old Chariot, Farewell Shanty
the ship, southport
CLUB INFO HERE
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GILL BURNS - JUNE 8th 1983 (Recorded By Mark Dowding)
Neville Grundy - Where do the Children Play, Times they are a changing, Fare thee well
Bernie Blaney - Ale, The Old Man’s Song, All the Good Times
Johnny Cope - Boys of Blue Hill, Hunting the Squirrel, The Good Man of Balingee(?) Spanish Ladies, Weather away the w?
Gill Burns - My Friend’s farm, Valentine O Hara, Henllan Hornpipe, Down by the Tanyard Side, Joseph Cross, Off She Goes, Lillee Burlero, Skates
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Neville & Bernie - Mr Punch & Judy Man
Johnny Cope - Man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo
Mark Dowding - Bolinder Boatman
Howard - Buddy Holly Type song
Gill Burns - The Fiddler, Blantyre Explosion, Walsh’s Hornpipe – Fairie’s Hornpipe, Adam Rude, Argentina, Princess Royal – Trunkles, Fan It and Cool It
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PAUL METSERS - JULY 20th 1983 (Recorded by Mark Dowding)
Bernie Blaney - Cheerful Horn, Fiddler’s Green
Neville Grundy - I don’t know what Love Is, Maimed Old Soldier, The Stillfjord reside
John Hobson & Howard Lees - O’Carolans concerto, Sweet Lorraine
Paul Metsers - Lose Myself in You, Peace Must Come, Faces Of Love, Seal Children, Good Intentions, Dancing Shoes
Bernie Blaney - Knocker Upper Man
Mark Dowding - Rust and Dust
Janet - Fiddler Madonna, Louisianna
John Hobson & Howard Lees - Honeysuckle Rose
Paul Metsers - No Quarter, It’s You in the End, Where the Blame Belongs, Brown Bird, Walls, Trouble in Mind
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the bothy folk club
CLUB INFO HERE
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Cyril Tawney – September 25th 1983 (Recorded by Mark Dowding
Clive Pownceby - Turra Market, Billy Cocked Hat
Paul Reid, Steve Taylor, Ken Dunlop - King Of the Fairies, Reels in D&G, The Water is Wide, Tunes, Song Of Cider, ? de Montagne
Cathie Stewart - Carrickfurgus, Nana’s Song
Cyril Tawney -
Grey Funnel Line, Rose in June, The Nutting Girl, The Suit of Grey, Drunken Sailor, As I was a Walking a long way from Home, The Amphitrite (Rounding the Horn) Beacon Park
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Clive Pownceby - Jack The Gipsy
Paul And Ken - Tunes
Martin Simpson - Rambling Highwayman, Black Jack Davey, Mary and the Soldier
Cyril Tawney - Chicken on a Raft, Stanley the rat, Mary Anne, Married On Pension Day, St Brewood revel song, Sam Houston, Plymouth Lament
horwich folk club
CLUB INFO HERE
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Alan Taylor - March 5th 1984 (Recorded by Mark Dowding)
Part 1. Crazy Amsterdam, The Traveller, Tennessee Waltz/Close tot the Edge, Untitled song about missing home, Piaf, Land of the North Wind
Part 2. Song for Joni Mitchell (Don’t know title), Lady Take Your Time, The Morning Lies Heavy, Good To See You, Roll On The Day, Standing At The Door, Homestate, The Rose and the Briar
wigan folk club
CLUB INFO HERE
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PETE BOND - This Old Shoe, Lying Lines, Act of God, Dancing in the Olympics, Lady of the Lamp, Some you win Some you lose, Space invaders, Country Music Hall of Pain, Sticks and Stones, Tropical Blues, Joe Peel, The Joker, Dollar Dance, Ships in the Night
THE BLACK BULL, MAWDESLEY
CLUB INFO HERE
SCOLD'S BRIDLE - A North Country Maid, The Morning Lies Heavy On Me, The Smuggler, Ploughman Laddies
The Little Piecer, Bonnie Susie Clelland, Farewell He
Clog Dance from Sue
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SCOLD'S BRIDLE - Song for Ireland, Captain Wedderburn’s Courtship, Fair Maids of February, Woman, charming Woman-o, My Brian, Foolish Incredibly Foolish, Female Drummer, Along The Rossendale
the dog and partridge, bollington
Arthur Wakefield ran folk clubs in Bollington since the early 1970's after coming to the club run by the Wood Family at the Spinners and maybe also at the Meridian.
He moved into the village in 1975 and began his first club at the Royal Oak a few years later.
After a number of years, the club moved to the Dog and Partridge for the first time. There was a short stint at the Holly Bush before moving to the Bull's Head in Kerridge in the late 70's or early 80's. The club then returned to the Dog and Partridge in the mid 80's. Legend has it that all of these moves were as a result of various disagreements with the landlords at these establishments - who knows?.
Anyway, in 2012, after nearly forty years or so of running folk clubs in the village, Arthur finally decided to take a back seat from the general running of the club. A retirement singers night took place on November 9th 2012 which reunited him with old friends such as the Wood family,Tony Downes and Stanley Accrington.
He passed away in a care home on 21st May 2020. But the club is still here at the Dog and Partridge and it is going full steam ahead with Pete Wood at the helm. (Taken from the folk club's own website)
Arthur Wakefield performing in the 'A Night At The MSG' concert, at the Ukrainian Cultural Centre, Manchester
THE BOOTSCOOTERS (Recording by Terry Bailey)
This CD was produced from a live recording of their performance at the Bollington Folk Club on February 11th 2002.
The Bootscooters were Terry Bailey, Alan Johnson,Andy Coldridge and Chris Waring.
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