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1979
10th May
John and Penny Sykes and Alan and Maggie Wood launch the club with
a singer's night at the Waggon Wheels bar of the White Lion, High St,
Spalding. Over 50 people turn up, some from as far away as King's Lynn.
"We had originally planned to open on the 3rd May, and it was always the
first Thursday in the month after that, but the date clashed with the general
election so we put it off for a week. Margaret Thatcher still got in anyway
so it didn't make any difference" (John Sykes)
This
was not the first time there had been a folk club in Spalding - in the
early seventies there had been a club for several years at the Mail Cart
on Pinchbeck Rd. "The club folded up in about 1975 - on the last night about
6 people turned up to see Jasper Carrott" (Barry Drew)
7th June
Martin Wyndham Read is the very first guest
During the next 12 months booked guests include: Nic Jones, Jon
Betmead, Martin Simpson, English Tapestry and Tom McConville. There are
already thoughts of changing the venue (the first of many such changes)
because of unwanted noise: "The landlord of the White Lion kept alsatian
dogs in a kennel right outside the door of the clubroom, and they barked
all the time Nic Jones was playing" (John Sykes)
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