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how on earth can you remember what happened at which glastonbury? They all merge into one in my head! Thanks for the good read, this thread is Britishness at its peak, lolz a plenty! see you there in FIVE DAYS! xxx

Oh wow, LOVE those photos!! Yes that is exactly how I remember it, I remember being camped/parked next to a row of trees like that, near the pyramid. I am getting my mum to have a look and see if she can spot our camp. The pyramid stage looks so cute, I have a very bad quality photo I will post... I don't have any more typed newsletters, but I do have some old newspaper clippings my nan had kept.

goodness me that map is cute! I think you are right about the year on my map being 1971, I think actually my mum and her mum went to the second one, not the first. So much history from those fields. I do remember the notice boards! and the queues to use the phone boxes. I also have a memory of being able to park next to your tent in the 80's? does anyone else remember that? or maybe that was a different festie!

Here is a MAP of what I assume is the Pyramid field (?) Thinking of wearing it around my neck and referring to it when I am lost at in the arse end of glasto, I think it will be a big help. Again from around 1971. Not as romantic as the other newsletter, but still interesting, coffee was 2p a cup, ok now I feel old!

Ahh so pleased you enjoyed reading it, and thanks for typing it out @paulshane! It is brilliantly written isn't it, you can imagine them sitting there in the sun on their typewriter, stream of consciousness pouring out. Funny how so much of it is still apt today - use water sparingly/ too many cars/ litter picking... my fave bits are: The Hassle Thrasher! Wear a hat made of happy thoughts, 'it ends like a circle ends'. 🥰 I have some more bits I can post, will dig them out... End of bulletin. The beginning of the world.

Hello beautiful people. I thought you might like to read this newsletter from one of the first glastonbury festivals -around 1970. I found it in my grandmother's belongings when she died. She went with my mum to the first few, and my mum took me when I was a kid, and I have been to most of them since then, so it has a very special place in my heart. I just got tickets in the resale (Yay!) See you in the sunny fields, peace and love man! ☮️xxx