The Essex Woodstock

SIR: I read with great interest John Bowling’s short article (Memory Lane, August issue) on the Essex Woodstock.

Living in the locality, I was able to make the Sunday finale of T Rex and Rod Stewart – with Maggie May being encored 26 times!!! Access was, by this time, easy – so it was a free concert as the Hells Angels had disappeared and security was virtually non-existent.

As Radio Caroline had been forced to stop broadcasting, it was really fabulous to hear and see artists who went on to become superstars.

Unlike at most other music festivals, there was never another show. So we had the best at the right time. Roland Brockman, originally Frintonon-sea, now Matching, Essex