Around 1968 along with two Stefan Sobell, and Pete Nalder, two Leeds University students, Geoff started a Folk Club on Saturday Nights at the Whip Hotel off Duncan Street in Leeds City Centre. Access to the upstairs clubroom was gained via a back entrance in a passageway off Lower Briggate. I attended most weeks until I moved to Batley but assumed the club closed when Stefan and Pete left University.
It was at the Whip that I first met, and became good friends with Nic Jones, when he was a member of the group ‘The Galliard’.

Several of the songs Geoff collected entered my repertoire, the Irish songs ‘The Bay Of Biscay’ and ‘Bedad and Says I’, and from Lakeland the hunting song ‘Squire Sands’, and the comic ‘Down in the Fields where the Butter cups do Grow’. ‘Down in the Fields ….’ was recorded by Geoff at Egremont Crab Fair in 1965 from a singer called Miley Smith. I still quite regularly perform the song almost sixty years later.

Geoff who walked with a limp said he had designed his own knee joint and fitted it so he could continue skiing. He skied regularly until he was well into his seventies, then he started sea-canoeing. The last time I saw him, when he was eighty-two, I was taking the dog for a walk on Tate Hill Sands in Whitby and spied him dragging his sea-canoe up onto the beach. He was with a group of other canoeists, and he said they were attempting to canoe around the coast of Britain doing a section at a time.