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Creekmore (Poole) Free festival Late August 1978. |
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Late August 1978.
The Archive
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Creekmore (Poole) Free festival Late August 1978. |
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Late August 1978.
Numbers - 1200
Length- 10 days
Bands - White Island
Organisers were banned from the site with injunctions.
Weather was hot sunny, grey and cold and a bloody big gale in the middle (sank yachts in the Fastnet Race)
Police and Council harrassed the festival but it was easily coped with.
Photographs.
Courtesy of Roger Hutchinson
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