CHELMSFORD ROCKS
Live music, memories & history from Chelmsford and beyond.
Library reading room
Build v224

Library Reading Room

This is the next layer of the rebuild: the supplied source library is now treated as something you can browse directly, rather than only as material behind the research pages.

Preservation rule: these are source files, not automatically verified historical facts. Some dates, names and labels may still need confirmation later. The files stay here while the website is built around them.

343 source files

285 images, 53 PDFs and 5 other supplied files are retained in archive-source.

Build first, verify later

The working archive can be made easier to use now. Detailed date checking can follow without deleting or rewriting the original trail.

108 featured source filesShowing a practical first index; the full source folder remains preserved.
Army & Navy
Goldray — The Bassment
Oaklands Park Festival
Chelmsford Corn Exchange
1960s Blues Boom
Jimi Hendrix — Chelmsford
Junior Jump — Chelmsford
Sex Pistols — Chelmsford Prison
Paolo Morena — Fling 2017
Chelmsford Folk Festival 1972
Chelmsford Rock Memorabilia
Chancellor Hall
Junior Jump and the Bottom Line
The Fairies
East Anglian Fayres
Joe Jackson in Nashville
Frankie and the Witch Fingers
The Coletrane Union
Sylvain Sylvain
1960s Blues Boom — additional source
1960s Blues Boom — additional source
Essex Bands
Corn Exchange photographs
Junior Jump and the Bottom Line — additional source
Essex Bands — page 2

How to use this room

  1. Start with a source that interests you — a venue, artist, event, photograph or memorabilia item.
  2. Follow the linked research page where one exists.
  3. Keep the original source wording separate from later interpretation.
  4. Mark a date for later confirmation rather than silently changing it now.
Next rebuild layer: connect more source files to the relevant event, venue and artist pages so the archive becomes a web of evidence rather than a pile of separate documents.

← Archive Start Here   Archive Catalogue   Where & When

Library music chronologies: two substantial supplied music-history documents are now surfaced as browsable source records. Open the Library Music Chronologies →

Further Library source continuations

New Library source records: Elected — Margaretting Village Hall · Junior Jump and the Bottom Line — Chelmsford

Newly surfaced Library sources — v325

New Library source records — v326

Additional supplied source records surfaced from the retained Library.

New Library source records — v327

Another retained Library source has been surfaced as a readable source record.

New Library visual source records — v328

Corn Exchange — Library Source (ODT)

New Library source records

Further Library source records