What’s New
This page records the continuing rebuild of the Chelmsford Rocks archive. It is a change log for the site structure and research tools, not a replacement for the historical source material.
Latest build
v497 adds a searchable thumbnail index of the first page of all 30 distinct source PDFs.
Recent improvements
- v497: added a searchable visual index with first-page previews for all 30 distinct PDFs, linked from the Source Library and PDF reading pages.
- v496: added first-page thumbnails for memorabilia PDFs 2, 3 and 4, each alongside its original file and readable page.
- v495: added a reading guide for Chelmsford Rock Memorabilia files 2–4, with links to each PDF and its readable page.
- v494: labeled the generated Buzzcocks / Evoke overview image in the Source Image Browser, distinguishing it from the original photographs.
- v493: updated the Where & When label for the 2026–27 Black Frog schedule so it does not describe every listed date as upcoming.
- v492: refreshed Image Archive counts: 49 unique files in the curated gallery and 421 preserved images in the thumbnail browser, with clearer wording about files not in the curated gallery.
- v491: displayed eight recovered Jimi Hendrix / Corn Exchange photographs on the venue page and in the Image Archive.
- v490: surfaced three more image groups: the historic Odeon exterior, a Jimi Hendrix/Corn Exchange contact sheet, and recovered Buzzcocks/Evoke poster and photos. The Evoke poster’s year remains unresolved.
- v489: added five source images to the curated Image Archive, bringing the displayed matched-image total to 34 across 19 pages.
- v488: displayed five preserved source images alongside the Book of Freaks memory, the Essex Chronicle bands article, Radio Stars comments and the Undertones / Deep Throats source record.
- v487: added previews to 73 local image links across event and source pages, each opening the full-size file.
- v486: displayed the Steve FP Band photo on its Asylum event page and added a copy-edited version of Maurice Hyde’s memory while retaining the original wording.
- v485: added thumbnails for 18 matched files in the Image Archive; visitors can now view them on the page and open each full-size image.
- v484: added direct routes from the Venues page to Bassment and Evoke listings, and removed a repeated Asylum link.
- v483: added a clear home-page notice that the new version is under construction and more material will be added.
- v482: simplified Explore the Archive, removed repeated link groups, brought related deep pages together by topic and repaired the PDF text index route.
- v481: fixed the decade-filter check on Where & When; filters now accept the 1960s through 2020s.
- v480: improved grammar in the added event notes, removed three duplicate undated records from Where & When, and preserved supplied event titles and the original historical transcript.
- v479: lightly corrected spelling, grammar and punctuation in the Junior Jump poetry-style review by Maurice Hyde; the original transcription remains unchanged.
- v478: added the Chelmsford punks photograph to the Explore Archive quick links.
- v477: added an image browser link and careful image-count explanation to Source Coverage.
- v476: added the source image browser to the Archive page and Site Map.
- v474: added a thumbnail browser for preserved source images, with filename search and folder filters.
- v473: moved the Where & When search controls ahead of separately supplied listing collections; those listings are grouped in a collapsed panel.
- v472: simplified the home page around the gig index and main collections, moving specialist links into Explore Archive.
- v471: made Home and Where & When the first two links across the remaining page menus.
- v470: added Explore Archive as a concise gateway to deeper collections and research pages.
- v469: shortened oversized page menus while retaining deeper links through the archive guide, site map and search.
- v467: added direct links from this change log to recent City Rock 77 source records.
- v464: added Maurice Hyde first-person festival account with the associated Flickr image and recollection, keeping it distinct from poster evidence.
- v463: added Maurice Hyde Chelmsford punks photograph to the 1977 Clash event record, with attribution and date limits.
- v243: added the Archive Reading Guide and repaired malformed carried-forward markup in the Control Centre.
- v242: corrected two maintenance-page routes in the Archive Control Centre and added this continuing build log.
- v241: added the Archive Control Centre as a central route into discovery, evidence and maintenance tools.
- v240: added the searchable-style Archive Contents Index.
- v239: normalised recoverable encoded local links and documented the remaining source references.
- v238: added the Archive Health Check for technical maintenance.
- v237: added the Link Audit and continued the internal navigation clean-up.
- v236: added accessibility and navigation improvements, including the Site Map, skip link and visible keyboard focus.
Archive preservation rule
Historical material is preserved as supplied. Gig dates are not silently rewritten during the rebuild. Existing dates remain in place; where evidence is not yet established, the archive can mark a date Subject to confirmation. That label means it has not yet been checked, not that the date is wrong.
Research remains separate
Technical maintenance and archive presentation do not substitute for historical verification. Later research may add evidence or clarify a date, but it should be recorded transparently rather than silently replacing the material that was supplied to the archive.
Continue the build
Open the Archive Control Centre · Browse the Archive Contents Index · Review the latest Health Check
New Library source records — v327
Another retained Library source has been surfaced as a readable source record.