Went around the site yesterday

[airwaves]

Yesterday (Sunday 19 April) I was driving passed the site, with my wife, when I decided to take her for a drive around it as she has never been (teacher - so can't go, not that she wants to anyway).

We went in past the bus-station and straight down to the railway track, along the track as far as in to Shangri La and Strummer's Stone, then back up between Greenpeace and alongside Jazz World 'til we reached The Meeting Point. Across to Pyramid and drove through back-stage, out past J Peel and back up out of site passed the bus station again.

Not much sign of any activity yet, except - at the Meeting Point we could see some building activity in the bottom left corner of the Kids Field. They have part erected what looks like a large, permanent (?) octagonal building, about half-complete. There is also a large stone built building next to it - don't know whether that is new or whether I just haven't seen it before.

Incidentely the wife's verdict was 'It bloody enormous'. [she was talking about the site ]

[Chazeboy]

Yesterday (Sunday 19 April) I was driving passed the site, with my wife, when I decided to take her for a drive around it as she has never been (teacher - so can't go, not that she wants to anyway).

We went in past the bus-station and straight down to the railway track, along the track as far as in to Shangri La and Strummer's Stone, then back up between Greenpeace and alongside Jazz World 'til we reached The Meeting Point. Across to Pyramid and drove through back-stage, out past J Peel and back up out of site passed the bus station again.

Not much sign of any activity yet, except - at the Meeting Point we could see some building activity in the bottom left corner of the Kids Field. They have part erected what looks like a large, permanent (?) octagonal building, about half-complete. There is also a large stone built building next to it - don't know whether that is new or whether I just haven't seen it before.

Incidentely the wife's verdict was 'It bloody enormous'. [she was talking about the site ]

[Sam Crawley]

Most importantly, did you see a Beeb van rigging up a webcam? Only I'm sure I guessed April 23rd on that "when will the cam go up" thread!!!

[deschwah]

were you in a tractor?

[Foxie_laydie]

yes yes, piccys are a must!! it was just a couple of weeks short of this time last year when we took a little trip there! oooh im getting all excited, cant believe how close its getting!!

[paulo999]

The stone building is Goose Hall, which houses a kitchen used for crew catering. It's been there in various forms for quite a while. The current structure was built in 2008.

The adjacent structure is likely to be a more permanent version of the marquee tent where crew could eat their food. This and Goose Hall form the main catering during the build.

[Magic Bus]

I was there yesterday - and I had a camera, but I don't know how to insert my pictures.....help!

[mouth]

I was there yesterday - and I had a camera, but I don't know how to insert my pictures.....help!

[kohoutec]

I was there yesterday - and I had a camera, but I don't know how to insert my pictures.....help!

Edited April 20, 2009 by kohoutec

[pezzypops]

• go to a free image hosting site, i'd recommend tinypic.com as its free, you don't need to register an account, its quick and simple, but others are available

• follow the instructions there

• when its uploaded you will be given some boxes with code in them, choose the one that says "IMG Code for Forums & Message Boards"

• copy the contents of that box, it'll look something like this:

  [IMG]http://i43.tinypic.com/k274i.jpg[/IMG]

• paste it in the box here that you'd normally write in

Edited April 20, 2009 by pezzypops

[Magic Bus]

Thanks Pezzy Pops - here's my starter for 10.......

[Magic Bus]

And a few more:

this is the Jazz World field

Looking up the slight hill towards where the Leftfiled was - you can just see the hanging basket frames on the left.

The Other Stage field - grass was about a foot long. Pyramid in central distance, Worthy Farm to right.

Edited April 20, 2009 by Magic Bus

[kohoutec]

Nice one Magic Bus. I was there myself Easter weekend but it's still great to see other photos Did you think the Jazz stage field looked smaller without everything in it, we did, it just seemed tiny for some reason.

Edited April 20, 2009 by kohoutec

[Magic Bus]

Nice one Magic Bus. I was there myself Easter weekend but it's still great to see other photos Did you think the Jazz stage field looked smaller without everything in it, we did, it just seemed tiny for some reason.

[pezzypops]

Thanks Pezzy Pops - here's my starter for 10.......

[muddyslingbax]

Yesterday (Sunday 19 April) I was driving passed the site, with my wife, when I decided to take her for a drive around it as she has never been (teacher - so can't go, not that she wants to anyway).

We went in past the bus-station and straight down to the railway track, along the track as far as in to Shangri La and Strummer's Stone, then back up between Greenpeace and alongside Jazz World 'til we reached The Meeting Point. Across to Pyramid and drove through back-stage, out past J Peel and back up out of site passed the bus station again.

Not much sign of any activity yet, except - at the Meeting Point we could see some building activity in the bottom left corner of the Kids Field. They have part erected what looks like a large, permanent (?) octagonal building, about half-complete. There is also a large stone built building next to it - don't know whether that is new or whether I just haven't seen it before.

Incidentely the wife's verdict was 'It bloody enormous'. [she was talking about the site ]

[Kernow]

I was up there about 10 days ago and just as I turned the car to drive down the lane from Pilton to the Farm entrance, guess who was coming out of one of the small cottages?

He clocked me looking at him and seemed to wonder why I was driving up his lane; I gave him a little wave of recognition and he responded which was nice and on I went to the end of the lane, got out, and had a look around the site. Nothing going on really - no sign of the fence being laid out yet.

He has a very large head!

[Laura_Babs]

Yes - we did think the Jazz Stage field was smaller than we remembered - it was really difficult to get our bearings, when there were so few festival landmarks around. We did think the Other Stage field was huge, though.

It's going to be sporting playing football on the Pyramid Field, as there obviously been some drainage work, and cable trenches dug.

[mouth]

as always great to see the pics, cheers.

[paulo999]

Just pondering...I wonder if Michael and Emily refer to the fields as 'Jazz Stage Field' etc... or if they refer to them by their rest of the year usage. Sorry...very pointless....must be the booze!

[Conrax]

I took a walk around the site today with one of my friends just parked my car at the entrance of Worthy farm and went took some pictures of the Pyrimid stage and stone circle etc..

Like you said not alot going on but the place looks great im sure work will start soon though.

Bring on JUNE!

[Pinhead]

Its amazing how Eavis just lets people turn into his farm and browse round his fields. Any other farmer in the Westcountry would be persuing you with his shotgun and dogs after 5 minutes driving down the lane on his land! Good on him.

These pictures (especially as they show sunny weather), just seem to reach out as if calling me to my annual pilgrimage . . .

[Kyelo]

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Edited April 21, 2009 by BenchBuddah

[pezzypops]

Its amazing how Eavis just lets people turn into his farm and browse round his fields. Any other farmer in the Westcountry would be persuing you with his shotgun and dogs after 5 minutes driving down the lane on his land! Good on him.

These pictures (especially as they show sunny weather), just seem to reach out as if calling me to my annual pilgrimage . . .

[freeak]

Popped round the festival site last friday on the way back from a holiday in Cornwall. Parked at the bottom of Hitchin ground and wandered round most of the festival site, having lunch on a stone in kings meadow :angry:

Not much work going on and only a small amount of the fence up. Tall long grass in most of the fields and no cows.

Edited May 11, 2009 by freeak