CHELMSFORD ROCKS
Live music, memories & history from Chelmsford and beyond.
Established January 2006
The source collection

Archive

The archive brings together surviving photographs, posters, tickets, programmes, documents and other material connected with Chelmsford music history.

Major index

Where and When — 52-page surviving navigation/index document from the old site.

Original website material

Old pages, PDFs, posters, tickets, programmes, photographs and reviews are catalogued by venue, event and contributor.

Flickr / Facebook provenance

Public social/archive material is used to cross-check dates, captions and provenance. It is not treated as automatically copyright-free.

Rights

Copyright and permission notes are retained. John Power's material is explicitly credited; Peter Ball's photograph is recorded as used with permission where applicable; other contributors are credited rather than assumed to have transferred copyright.

Browse by decade

Decades · Archive Coverage provides a chronological doorway into the surviving source index, with selected event records shown separately.

Explore the archive

Browse the full gig index

Use Where & When to search the surviving listings by artist, venue and decade.

Open selected event records

Events and Artists & BandsArtist EvidenceArtist Source LedgerArtist Evidence Network brings together the individual shows for which the surviving material supports a fuller record.

See the photographs

Media Archive brings together recovered photographs and source documents, with filename search and archive filters. Open the curated Image Archive or browse preserved source images as thumbnails.

Read first-hand recollections

People's Memories keeps personal recollections as recollections, including uncertainty where accounts differ.

Cross-reference the selected events

Archive MatrixResearch DashboardResearch QueueResearch Leads shows, event by event, which navigation routes currently exist for dedicated records, the surviving Where & When index, recovered media and directly matching memories.

Collection snapshot

284 image files

Photographs and other image material currently retained in the packaged source collection.

58 document files

PDFs and other document/source material retained alongside the image collection.

343 source files

Total files currently present under archive-source, including material that is not yet represented by a dedicated public page.

These figures describe the current working source pack, not the number of unique historical items or events.

Duplicate handling

Repeated uploads are treated as duplicate archive copies where their content and file sizes/content match. Distinct but related items — for example two different Junior Jump pieces — remain separate.