A Glossop folk group with a name that sounded like a building was cutting its first record 40 years ago.
Portland Chambers had been packing clubs and earning a growing reputation and the time had come to hit the recording studios.
Christine Nelson, Ruth Fuga and Michael and Gerry Revell were planning to make an EP (extended play) record and were prepared to pay around £40 an hour to hire the studio in January 1981.
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