A compact cross-check between the dated recording records used by Chelmsford Rocks and the current Essex Record Office catalogue / published archive material. This is a verification aid, not a replacement for the catalogue.
Reference: SA 30/6/94/1
Cross-check: the ERO's Sources on Christmas guide independently lists “Chelmsford Folk Club: Christmas special, 1978” under this reference.
Boundary: the guide confirms the dated recording exists in the collection but does not provide a performer list here.
Reference: SA 30/6/402/1
Catalogue: sides 2 and 4 of 4; Mick and Sarah Graves and Geoff and Penny Harris; tape 2 of 2.
Published cross-check: ERO material also identifies Sarah and Mick Graves at Chelmsford Folk Club on this date.
Reference: SA 30/6/425/1
Catalogue: parts 2 and 4 of 4, tape 2 of 2; Colin Cater introduces Martin Carthy, with a detailed first- and second-half programme.
Boundary: the detail is extensive, but it is still a partial surviving recording sequence.
Reference: SA 30/6/428/1
Catalogue: parts 1 and 3 of 4, tape 1 of 2; floor singers, Annie Harding singing “Reynardine”, and Chelmsford Morris opening the second half with three dances.
Published cross-check: ERO's catalogue and wider archive material independently identify this recording and its Chelmsford Morris context.
Reference: SA 30/6/653/1
Catalogue: Sam Bond, Popular Wobblies, Peter Billing, Geoff Harris, Simon Ritchie and Bobbie?, Steve Morris and parish notices; the recording ends abruptly.
Published cross-check: ERO's Folk in Essex material specifically identifies “The March Hare” performed by Simon and Bobbie Ritchie at this recording.
Reference: SA 30/6/712/1
Catalogue / published material: the surviving trail is associated with East Anglian Dulcimers; ERO listening-bench material identifies Paul McCann and Jill Palmer-Swift.
Boundary: listening-bench identification is kept distinct from the catalogue title.
Reference: SA 30/6/736/1
Catalogue: Singers' Night, part one of two, with Residents' Band, Pete Billinge, Roger Johnson, Countryman's Favour, Tony Wynn, Annie Butcher, Seven Straw Braid and Phil Heath-Coleman.
Published cross-check: ERO material identifies Jill Palmer-Swift introducing Chelmsford Assembly performed by Seven Straw Braid.
The strongest route is the individual SA 30/6 catalogue record, where available. It supplies the archival reference, date and surviving scope.
ERO articles and listening-bench material can identify performances or people more clearly than a short catalogue title. Those additions are labelled as published archive evidence.
If two descriptions differ in detail, the site keeps both and records the distinction. It does not manufacture a complete evening from fragments.
Essex Archives Online provides catalogue descriptions and some digital access; other sound recordings may require Searchroom access because of copyright or digitisation limits. ERO states that recordings can be ordered through the catalogue and that some recordings have not yet been catalogued or digitised.
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