This page is the source-facing companion to the narrow dated-record index. Each entry states what the surviving catalogue record actually establishes, what survives, and what it does not establish. It deliberately avoids turning partial recordings into complete gig reconstructions.
Reference: SA 30/6/94/1
What is established: the surviving catalogue trail identifies a Chelmsford Folk Club Christmas Special in 1978.
Boundary: the material currently used by this archive does not supply enough performer or programme detail to reconstruct the evening.
DATED RECORD · PROGRAMME DETAIL UNKNOWN
Reference: SA 30/6/402/1
Named in catalogue: Mick and Sarah Graves; Geoff and Penny Harris.
Survival: sides 2 and 4 of 4, tape 2 of 2. The catalogue therefore identifies only part of the surviving recording sequence.
Independent context: Essex Record Office's published Folk in Essex material also identifies the Graves recording from this date.
Reference: SA 30/6/425/1
Named in catalogue: Martin Carthy, introduced by Colin Cater. The catalogue supplies a detailed song and tune sequence.
Survival: parts 2 and 4 of 4, tape 2 of 2. This is a detailed surviving programme record, but not a claim that the complete evening survives.
Reference: SA 30/6/428/1
Named in catalogue: Annie Harding singing “Reynardine”; Chelmsford Morris opening the second half with three dances, including The Valentine and Kilted Aunt Poll.
Survival: parts 1 and 3 of 4, tape 1 of 2. The catalogue also records the club's tenth-anniversary context for Chelmsford Morris.
Corroboration: Annie Harding's later oral history independently describes discovering Chelmsford Folk Club in the early 1970s and becoming a regular singer on the Essex folk-club scene.
Essex Archives catalogue record · Annie Harding Oral History
Reference: SA 30/6/653/1
Named in catalogue: compere Sam Bond; Popular Wobblies; Peter Billing; Geoff Harris; Simon Ritchie and Bobbie?; Steve Morris; plus parish notices.
Survival: the catalogue explicitly says the recording ends abruptly. The missing continuation is not reconstructed here.
Reference: SA 30/6/712/1
Named in catalogue trail: East Anglian Dulcimers.
Further archive identification: the Essex Record Office listening-bench material used elsewhere in this site identifies Paul McCann and Jill Palmer-Swift in connection with this Chelmsford Folk Club record.
Boundary: performer detail from the listening-bench material is kept distinct from the catalogue title.
Reference: SA 30/6/736/1
Catalogue detail: Singers' Night, part one, with Residents' Band introductory music, Pete Billinge, Roger Johnson, Countryman's Favour, Tony Wynn, Annie Butcher, Seven Straw Braid and Phil Heath-Coleman.
Survival: part 1 of 2. The catalogue does not support treating this as a complete surviving evening.
A date, reference number, named performer, recording extent or catalogue description is treated as source-derived evidence.
Where the site connects a catalogue record with an oral history, published Record Office article or listening-bench identification, that connection is labelled rather than presented as if it were part of the original catalogue title.
Missing tape sides, exact venue rooms, complete bills and undocumented programme details remain open research questions. Absence from this page is not evidence that an event did not happen.
Essex Archives Online is the starting point for checking the catalogue description, reference and any available digital access. The Record Office describes the catalogue as a description of archive items rather than a full transcription of the documents.
Where the surviving item is not available online, the Essex Record Office says original documents and Essex Sound and Video Archive recordings can be consulted in its Searchroom, subject to the relevant access arrangements.
A partial recording is a survival statement, not a statement that the missing material never existed. The next research step is therefore to check the catalogue and access route for the original item before drawing conclusions about what is absent.
These records sit inside a wider evidence system: recordings, paper records, oral histories and Essex Folk News are deliberately cross-referenced without being collapsed into one supposed master list.
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