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A sleeping visitor to Bath for the 1970 Bath Blues Festival and a Mexico World Cup poster

A sleeping visitor to Bath for the 1970 Bath Blues Festival and a Mexico World Cup poster

Image Reference: 19848
Image Date: 1970
Measurements: 20.2 x 25.2 cm
Medium: photo
Collection: Loose Photos
Library Reference: Z / X
Credit: Bath & North East Somerset Council
Library: Bath Record Office : Archives & Local Studies

Description: The city banned the use of the Recreation Ground after the furore from the previous year's event. The festival moved to the Bath & West Show ground at Shepton Mallet. Fairport Convention, Pink Floyd and Steppenwolf, Santana, Frank Zappa, Canned Heat, Jefferson Airplane and The Byrds played in front of a crowd of 200,000. Among the audience was a young farmer, Michael Eavis who, the following year, organised his own music festival at his farm in Pilton near Glastonbury. Located by Claverton Street just West of the junction with Lyncombe Hill,

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