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Old Site Maps?


Guest Milbert

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Just wondering if anyone knows of anywhere on the web where I might some old festival site maps? Late 90s, early 00s.

Curious to see how things have changed since I started going, and I like to wallow in nostalgia.

All I've found by googling is the last few years.

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by the way at that time you could park beside your tent as well.

It was about 1988 that they stopped that, wasn't it?

Compared to now it was a joy, not having to lug your gear across fields. And it made the fest far more spontaneous, as people would arrive with all sorts which added to the overall feel of the place.

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There are a few early ones in as part of Glasto Earth if you download it. I put them together after coming into possession of a few old site production maps, and finding a few more here and there. Ground to a halt with them sadly due to time, and it's a pretty laborious task to get it spot on to Glasto Earth's exacting standards :D , but do mean to do some more for Glasto Earth sometime to make every festival that's been done plotted on there.

The map of the 1979 one above was a nightmare to plot, cos it was drawn by an artist not a cartographer, so some of the field boundaries didn't match up that well. The rest were pretty straight forward though, and it's really interesting to see which bits of the festival have changed and when.

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It was about 1988 that they stopped that, wasn't it?

Compared to now it was a joy, not having to lug your gear across fields. And it made the fest far more spontaneous, as people would arrive with all sorts which added to the overall feel of the place.

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By the way I do have all the Programme's from all the years since 1979 but they are stacked in a shed but I have some repair work on the go just now so I am not going to do any digging about in my shed until that is all ended but if anyone wants a scan please let me know but wait until the winter when I may have my flat the way it was before I had two roof leaks from above Christmas 2009 { and no that is not a typing mistake - I live in a rented flat and the landlady who runs a ' event planning company ' has been pissing about and not getting the job finished }

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Funny enough at Reading last year I was speaking to the WBC Chairman to figure out when we switched crew camps but he thinks it may have been 92 or 93 { in fact many of the Senior Managers were surprised that there was another camp that they did not know about } - I know exactly where we moved to which was the field in front of the open air cinema and we were there for ages.It was dead easy to get our supply trucks into compared to the old camp.

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is that a trick question because unless I am going balmy there was no Glastonbury in 1988.

:lol: .... I deliberately put 'about' because I wasn't sure if there'd been a fest in '88 or not without looking it up.

But I picked '88 and not '89 because as far as I can remember (and maybe I'm wrong), '89 was the year of the security/travellers 'battles', and I have a feeling that they'd stopped people driving onto site by the year of those 'battles'.

But it was all a long time ago now, and trying to distinguish one from another from back then is hard now, and getting harder.

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This is how it looked the first year I went - by the way at that time you could park beside your tent as well.

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Right the WBC crew camp was definately still up at what is now near Ped Gate C up till 95. I worked the bars with Specialized for WBC at Glasto as far as I remember in 93,94,95,97.

Part of me actually thinks it was still there (in some form anyway) in 97 (the bad year) as I was nightshift and my job that year was to check all the bars on the nightshift to hand out batteries etc and I am sure the compound was up that way. If not, then it was 95 though.

Would be nice to know for sure though, going by old maps :)

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Yup I know Steve well, also Eamon and a few of the others still around. Actually was speaking to Chris Hart at Glasto last year, 1st I had really seen him in years.

Ahh yeah Brian (there was a couple McGhee and McManess) and you probably remember Gordon as well :)

Anyway this is off topic, but yeah would be nice to see some actual staff site plans from back then as well as the maps that are in this thread :D

Glasto - not as it used to be :P

Hope to catch you somewhere this year Brian :)

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Yup I know Steve well, also Eamon and a few of the others still around. Actually was speaking to Chris Hart at Glasto last year, 1st I had really seen him in years.

Ahh yeah Brian (there was a couple McGhee and McManess) and you probably remember Gordon as well :)

Anyway this is off topic, but yeah would be nice to see some actual staff site plans from back then as well as the maps that are in this thread :D

Glasto - not as it used to be :P

Hope to catch you somewhere this year Brian :)

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It was about 1988 that they stopped that, wasn't it?

Compared to now it was a joy, not having to lug your gear across fields. And it made the fest far more spontaneous, as people would arrive with all sorts which added to the overall feel of the place.

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:lol: .... I deliberately put 'about' because I wasn't sure if there'd been a fest in '88 or not without looking it up.

But I picked '88 and not '89 because as far as I can remember (and maybe I'm wrong), '89 was the year of the security/travellers 'battles', and I have a feeling that they'd stopped people driving onto site by the year of those 'battles'.

But it was all a long time ago now, and trying to distinguish one from another from back then is hard now, and getting harder.

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The riot was in 1990. There was a year off in 1991 (great free festival over the solstice at rat's run) and then a more secure than before fence went up in 1992. as far as i remember that was the first year i needed a vehicle pass for my tk

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1990 was definately the year their was issues with security/travellers issue.

I wasn't there that year, but as far as am aware Specialized had a small amount of staff on site working (perhaps stages/beer tents)

Obviously the festival wasn't on in 91, but my first year was in '92 and that was the year that the travellers tried to gain access at Blue Gate (A361) briefly seen on Julien Temples film.

I remember that well as we had guys arriving down by coach to work and they got to the gate and had to get off to assist the police/stewards on the gate!

Definately was no parking next to cars in 1992 anyway, we did the permiter fence those days too and I was positioned at the Traders Gate (which back then was right next to Anne Goodes house. Despite her being against the festival, she had some of the Channel 4 film crew staying at hers as they came through my gate. She also brought us out a flask of tea and home made scones :D

Ahh the good old days

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