I'll piss you off even more then, Pol. I met her a few times when I lived in Nottingham (64/65). A load of us lived in a huge flat in St. Ann's Well. One of the guys was an Ulsterman, a Fenian and a fine unaccompanied singer. She used to visit us and stay with him. (We also played host to the Young Tradition and Andy Irvine (just before Sweeney's Men))
I just remembered that, after Folk Union One ceased to be, Barry Nettleton started Freedom Folk at the Blue Bell. He went on to co-found Hull Brick Company with Rick Welton; run Hull Truck; manage Beverly Playhouse. A fond farewell to Barry Nettleton 09:52Thursday 29 May 200811:13Tuesday 27 May 2008 WARM tributes have been paid to Barry Nettleton, who ran Beverley Picture Playhouse cinema and was a leading figure on the East Riding music and entertainment scene for many years. Barry, who was 62, died suddenly last Thursday after collapsing while attending a public meeting called by organisers of Beverley Folk Festival at the Tiger Inn in Lairgate. Shocked officials of the Folk Festival, and his colleagues at East Riding Council where he was the authority's arts development manager, have paid tribute to Barry’s enormous contribution to arts in the region. Festival director Chris Wade said he had always been a great supporter of the event and all involved in it extended their deepest sympathies to his family, friends and colleagues. Barry had been a major player on the Hull and Beverley music scene for more than 40 years. His involvement in folk music dated back to running a folk club at the Blue Bell in Hull called ‘Freedom Folk’, with an emphasis on contemporary and protest songs. He later ran a Sunday evening concert club at the former Spring Street Theatre entitled ‘Barry Nettleton Presents,’ which he eventually moved to the new Centre Hotel in Hull, and called it ‘Centre Folk’. In addition to his love of folk and contemporary music, Barry promoted many large rock concerts in Hull, perhaps the most notable being The Who at Hull City Hall in February 1970. This concert was to have been used for the recording which eventually was produced from the band’s Leeds concert and became the notable ‘Live In Leeds’. Barry later worked as the administrator for Hull Truck Theatre for many years, after which he moved to the Customs House theatre and arts centre in South Shields. His love for promoting live concerts brought him back to Beverley where he organised many popular concerts at the Picture Playhouse with some of the country’s best known musicians from the fields of rock, jazz, contemporary music and folk. The artists included Belinda Carlisle, Midge Ure, Ray Davies, George Melly, Fairport Convention and many more. He had a tremendous enthusiasm for jazz and organised Beverley’s first Jazz Festival. He also became one of the directors of Beverley Folk Festival before joining East Riding Council as its arts development manager. "He will be missed by all those involved in music and the arts in the area as well as the Folk Festival," said Ms Wade. "The festival is very grateful to him for all his support over the years and will be dedicating one of its concerts over the festival weekend to his memory." Barry was director of the Hull Music Company which ran Beverley Picture Playhouse - which was the oldest operating cinema in the country - for five years up until its closure in 2002. He had worked for East Riding Council for many years and Dick Primmer, the council's acting head of culture and information, said: "Barry was a well liked and well respected leader of the council's arts development team and was known throughout the East Riding for his passionate commitment to arts. He was responsible for many exciting initiatives as well as continuing and developing the more traditional activities. His colleagues are trying to come to terms with the loss of a valued colleague and share in the grief of his family and friends." http://www.beverleyguardian.co.uk/news/local/a-fond-farewell-to-barry-nettleton-1-1184818
This is one venue I never actually visited until in my 60's when me and my mate popped in for a pint and it was full of people of a similar age. It had a, how can I say this, an odour problem which was noticeable as soon as you walked into the downstairs bar, we had one drink and came out. But after I met my girlfriend, now my wife, she told me about going to the folk club with her then boyfriend back in the 60's but I was at many of the other venues around at that time in the 60's so I'm not surprised I missed it.
Rather than start another thread, I thought I'd tack it on to this one. It is almost next-door There was a furniture maker called Robert 'Mousey' Thompson who lived in Kilburn, North Yorkshire. His 'trademark'/motif was a mouse. In Holy Trinity church there are seven or eight examples of his work, but I only found 4 or 5 when I looked. This is one of them: please log in to view this image https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=r...Eoe5UcHNjYgC&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=643
Loads of churches in East Yorkshire have them - Both the Minster and St Mary's in Beverley, Bridlington's Priory Church, Holy Trinity Hull, St Mary's Sculcoates, Hornsea, Skeffling, Driffield, Burton Agnes, Kirk Ella, South Cave and North Cave.
Yeah, I know there are a lot of examples around - I just thought I'd stick it on this thread, for the benefit of everyone interested in the Old Town (We have about 3 threads currently running which are 'Old Town'-ish).
I remember seeing on the TV news (when I was still in Hull) that the cops had busted a workshop which was 'forging' Mouseman furniture on a fair scale. I've now found this: Beware fake 'Mouseman' furniture imports alert TRADING standards officers are warning of a glut of fake furniture copying a local craftsman's famous trademark. Wooden stools purporting to be from the workshops of Robert Thompson’s Craftsmen have been found on sale in North Yorkshire and on the internet. The fakes, thought to have been made in China, have been produced on the largest scale the business has encountered and North Yorkshire trading standards officers have launched an investigation. Craftsman Robert Thompson died in 1955 but the workshop he founded at Kilburn, near Thirsk, continues and today the business employs 40 people. Thompson acquired the nickname the Mouseman of Kilburn because of his trademark, a mouse hand-carved on each piece of work. The mouse is poorly reproduced on the fakes seized by trading standards officers. Thompson’s great-grandson Ian Cartwright, managing director of Robert Thompson’s Craftsmen, said there were other tell tale signs which gave away the inferior counterfeits. The workshop only uses naturally seasoned oak from the UK, but Mr Cartwright said the wood for the fakes was foreign, possibly from the Baltic. The construction of the fake furniture is not authentic and the mouse and other carving is by machine rather than by hand. “It’s quite worrying,” Mr Cartwright said of the fakes. “There are a large quantity coming in and spreading around the country pretty quickly. We’ve not had counterfeiting in such large quantities before.” He said proof of purchase from the workshop was the best way to ensure authenticity but people unsure of the provenance of their pieces often brought them into the workshop for confirmation they were genuine. Ruth Taylor, of North Yorkshire Trading Standards, said the fakes would not be immediately obvious to an inexperienced collector and urged caution. “We’re still investigating the source but the fakes are freely available on the internet,” she said. http://www.ripongazette.co.uk/news/local/beware-fake-mouseman-furniture-imports-alert-1-2707173
Spent many a school day in the cellar of Bluebell inn getting pissed with Carl Jackson. ( Jacko ) instead of going to school ( Trinity House ) before I got booted out.
I thought I remembered it right. He was living in a caravan, as guard-dog for another guy, whose drugs they were. Johnny didn't have that kind of money.
