A cross-reference of the main surviving evidence layers currently assembled for Chelmsford Folk Club: recorded sessions, oral histories, paper records and later Essex Record Office research. A populated cell means that source layer currently gives us something relevant to that period or subject; it does not mean the layers independently prove the same event.
Oral history: Colin Cater's 1999 interview recalls his involvement with Chelmsford Folk Club after moving to Essex, including memories of the Three Cups around 1970–71 and later Golden Fleece and DJ clubroom use.
SA 30/7/1/7/1
Oral-history indexOral history: Sarah Graves's 1999 interview places her singing with Judy Taylor at Chelmsford Folk Club during 1975–78 and discusses her wider folk-scene involvement.
SA 30/7/1/19/1
Sarah Graves oral historyPaper evidence: the John Durrant collection lists Golden Fleece and DJs Clubroom guest lists, newsletters from 1979 through 1985, a brief 1979 history, and British Legion Hall material.
SA 30/2/3/4, Chelmsford Folk Club items 35–44
Paper trailRecorded session: Jim Etheridge's catalogue names these performers on sides 2 and 4 of the surviving four-sided recording.
SA 30/6/402/1
Performance recordRecorded session: the catalogue gives detailed performance information, including individual songs and tunes.
SA 30/6/425/1
Performance recordRecorded session: floor singers, Annie Harding singing Reynardine, and Chelmsford Morris's tenth-anniversary dances are named in the catalogue. Oral history: Annie's later interview provides separate recollection of discovering and participating in the folk-club scene.
Recording: SA 30/6/428/1 · Oral history: SA 30/7/1/16/1
Annie HardingRecorded session: the catalogue names Popular Wobblies, Peter Billing, Geoff Harris, Simon Ritchie and Bobbie?, and Steve Morris. The uncertainty in the catalogue name is retained.
SA 30/6/653/1
Performance recordRecorded session: Paul McCann and Jill Palmer-Swift are identified by the Record Office as performing on East Anglian Dulcimers at Chelmsford Folk Club.
SA 30/6/712/1
Performance recordRecorded session: Jill Palmer-Swift introduces Chelmsford Assembly, performed by Seven Straw Braid at Chelmsford Folk Club.
SA 30/6/736/1
Performance recordOral histories: the Essex Folk Movement Oral History Project preserves interviews with Sarah Graves, Colin Cater, Alie Byrne and Annie Harding, among others. These provide later recollections of earlier club activity and the wider Essex folk circuit.
Examples: SA 30/7/1/19/1 · SA 30/7/1/7/1 · SA 30/7/1/10/1 · SA 30/7/1/16/1
Oral-history indexResearch context: the Record Office guide says Etheridge recorded almost every Chelmsford Folk Club between 1978 and 1986, often capturing the whole evening, including announcements, floor singers and applause. It also notes that he recorded Chelmsford Morris and other clubs.
Essex Record Office collection guide, SA 30/6
Source trailWhen a date appears in more than one evidence layer, the layers can be read together. For example, the 7 November 1982 recording names Annie Harding, while her 1999 oral history supplies later first-person context.
The matrix does not infer missing nights from the presence of neighbouring records. The Record Office guide describes a substantial recording run, but this site does not treat that as permission to invent a complete programme.
Where paper, recording and oral-history evidence overlap, consult the underlying catalogue records and original material where available. Essex Archives Online provides catalogue descriptions and access routes for researchers.