GLASTONBURY ARCHIVE: THE GLASTONBURY GAZETTE

‘Glastonbury’s only local newspaper’. Unique Publications attempts to go more mainstream. Edited by Bruce Garrard and Ann Morgan.

1  March 1989
Pilton Festival is on; local news including John Seymour at the Town Hall; Save Our Post Office campaign; Glastonbury Assembly Rooms – fully equipped arts centre for Glastonbury?; Looking forward to the Assembly Rooms AGM – ‘The Question of Management’; Community drama – Ariadne Productions, ‘Green Tara’; Gog Theatre, ‘The Gods Are Not To Blame’; Glastonbury Community Pantomime – ‘Ali Baba 

and the Four Tea Thieves’; Gothic Relief – ‘Frankenstein’.

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Gazette 2

2  May 1989:
Post Office Campaign Steams Ahead; local news, including ‘Glastonbury Legends Debunked in the Town Hall’, Aurora Borealis seen from Glastonbury, Hinkley Point Inquiry; Glastonbury and the Travellers In The Public Eye; Spring Equinox at Stonehenge; Assembly Rooms – new beginnings; Arts Info including Ariadne Productions, ‘The Shining Ones’; Glastonbury CND Festival changes emphasis to more

theatre after Mendip District Council refuses license.

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Gazette 3

3 June 1989
Relief Road Debate Hots Up; Post Office Campaign goes to London; local news including ‘New Scientist criticises Mendip Limestone Quarrying’; ‘The Festival of the Second Coming’; Glastonbury Crystal Festival; Travellers and Glastonbury – ‘Towards a Positive Future’; Arts Info, including Gog Theatre exchange project – Tbilisi, Georgia; Abbey Players – ‘Bluebeard, the Truth Behind the Legend’.

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Gazette 4

4 July 1989
‘Hippy’ vehicles clog up town car parks after being refused access to the Tor on 6/7/89; local news including Plans for Glastonbury Relief Road; Police closure of Well House Lane; Glastonbury Festival 1989 – pictures; King Arthur’s Grave – Geoffrey Ashe’s reply to County Historian Robert Dunning; The Monarch re-opens; Assembly Rooms – ‘can we afford a new mop?’; The Gay Scene in Glastonbury.

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Gazette 5

5 September/October 1989
‘Dancing in the Street’; Mendip District Council’s ‘Tourism Strategy Report’ – including an ‘Arthurian Centre’ with ‘Theme Visits’; Post Office campaign latest; Hinkley C Inquiry continues; Glastonbury Thorn on its last legs; Glastonbury Dance Festival; Glastonbury Childrens’ Festival; Assembly Rooms refurbishment; Arts Info including Gog Theatre, ‘Birdman’; Cannabis Smoking in Glastonbury.

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Gazette 6

6 October/November 1989
Mount Avalon – call for public meeting; ‘The abolition of domestic rates, and the imposition of the Poll Tax, draws closer’; Glastonbury Festival applies for 1990 license – fee £6,000; local Green Party formed in wake of success in European elections; Gothic Image’s Frances Howard-Gordon in the Soviet Union.

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Gazette 7

7 November/December 1989
Local MP becomes Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment; Hinkley Point Inquiry adjourned after DoE decision not to go ahead with Hinkley C power station; Racism in Glastonbury? – problems for Indian Restaurant; Wirral Park/Morlands Site redevelop-ment plans; AIDS diuscussion; Rainbow Circle celebration of life camp; Gog Theatre in Tbilisi; Arts Info, including Daevid Allen in Glastonbury.

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