Cropredy 1979

[PLW (Peter)]

I've asked this somewhere else, but would love to know the answer. . .

Which field was Cropredy 79 held in? I was there and remember there being several thousand others. I have a copy of the original programme, and the map suggests it was in the area next to the canal, where they used to hold the car boot sale. I went and had a look this year, and it's tiny. Hardly enough room for a stage let alone more than 4,000 people.

Anyone with a better memory than me?

[GubGub (Al)]

I don't know but that area used to seem quite big when they held the car boot sale there. A lot of it was cordoned off this year for some reason.

[Barry]

As I recall, it was a field at the end of school lane?

I'll have to find a map ....

Possibly where field 7b is now?

[jude]

The car boot sale was held on the cricket pitch by the pavilion this year, hence the cordonning off of the hallowed parts of the pitch

in previous years the carboot was held on land on the other side of the canal, over the bridge, next to the coal yard which extends quite a way back, which I think is the bit PLW was talking about  

My earliest programme is 1981 and that was at Broughton, so that's no help!!

[quodlibet (Ian)]

We were camped this year at the farthest extremity of field 7C & I pointed out to number one son; "over there, that's where the Farewell concert was held in '79". It was in field 7D adjacent to the canal. As was, if I remember correctly,the following year's "reunion".

[GubGub (Al)]

in previous years the carboot was held on land on the other side of the canal, over the bridge, next to the coal yard which extends quite a way back, which I think is the bit PLW was talking about  

Yes, that's the bit I was talking about too, where the Talking Elephant stall was but it seemed to have been mostly roped off this year. There was a pigsty in it too!  

[PLW (Peter)]

We were camped this year at the farthest extremity of field 7C & I pointed out to number one son; "over there, that's where the Farewell concert was held in '79". It was in field 7D adjacent to the canal. As was, if I remember correctly,the following year's "reunion".

Ah. Well remembered. I'll have another look at the programme map later.