A chronological view of the surviving Chelmsford Folk Club recording records currently established in this archive. This is deliberately a map of surviving evidence, not a reconstructed list of every club night.
SA 30/6/402/1 — sides 2 and 4 of 4 survive. The catalogue identifies Mick and Sarah Graves and Geoff and Penny Harris.
Recording status: partial surviving item.
Catalogue Index · Performance RecordsSA 30/6/425/1 — parts 2 and 4 of 4. The catalogue lists the first- and second-half repertoire and names Colin Cater as introducer.
Recording status: partial surviving item.
Catalogue Index · Performance RecordsSA 30/6/428/1 — parts 1 and 3 of 4. The catalogue records floor singers, Annie Harding singing Reynardine, and three Chelmsford Morris dances celebrating the group's tenth anniversary.
Recording status: partial surviving item.
Catalogue Index · Annie Harding Oral HistorySA 30/6/653/1 — the catalogue identifies the compere, floor singers and named performers. It notes that the recording ends abruptly.
Recording status: surviving but incomplete.
Catalogue Index · Performance RecordsSA 30/6/712/1 — Paul McCann and Jill Palmer-Swift are identified in the Record Office's listening-bench material.
Recording status: surviving catalogue/listening-bench record.
Catalogue Index · Essex Sounds listening benchSA 30/6/736/1 — the surviving catalogue record identifies Singers' Night material including Seven Straw Braid and Phil Heath-Coleman.
Recording status: surviving catalogue record.
Catalogue Index · Evidence MatrixThe Essex Record Office collection guide says Jim Etheridge recorded almost every Chelmsford Folk Club between 1978 and 1986, often recording whole evenings with announcements, floor singers and applause. It also explains that the recordings were dubbed to cassette and that there were usually two cassettes per evening.
Open the collection guideThe individual catalogue records on this page demonstrate why the broader collection statement should not be converted into a guessed programme. Some surviving items contain selected sides or parts; one catalogue entry explicitly says the recording ends abruptly.
Use this page with the Catalogue Index, Evidence Matrix, Evidence Intersections and Paper Trail. The goal is to show where evidence agrees — and where the surviving record simply stops.
Catalogue Index · Evidence Matrix · Evidence Intersections · Paper Trail
This page does not claim that the six dates above are the only Chelmsford Folk Club recordings in the Essex Sound and Video Archive. They are the recording records currently surfaced and cross-referenced in the Chelmsford Rocks research layer. Further catalogue work can add records without changing the meaning of the existing entries.