Listening to music from 1968 and wondering what was happening locally when this music was new, I began to google the era and tweet my results. Soon @StephenBln and @kmflett joined in with their personal knowledge of the era…we dug up some info about the Tottenham Royal which hosted The Who and Status Quo among others in 1968 and you could have seen the Small Faces, Bonzo Dog Band, Joe Cocker, Amen Corner and many more at Ally Pally on New Years Eve. I also discovered the Leyton Buzzards ode to the era, Saturday Night (among the plastic palm trees) which has the immortal lines “I found my mecca near Tottenham Hale Station/I found heaven on the Seven Sisters Road”

The Delicious links that you click through to above show a serendipitous journey through Google, Flickr, Harringay Online and personal memory taken on a warm summer night 42 years later…