A SPECIAL television segment, filmed on the Isle of Wight, featured on BBC’s The One Show last month.

In July, the County Press got a sneak peek at what was being filmed on our shores; an archaeological investigation at Afton Down, the Isle of Wight Festival’s former site.

The project was filmed for BBC's One Show by Ryde-based People Media UK, a television and film production company set up in 2021 run by Tony Steyger and Barbara Jane Mackie.

Tony directed the shoot.

He said: "The 1970 festival is undoubtedly an iconic part of the Island's identity and took place at a time of change and hope.

"Islanders by and large welcomed over half a million young people who revelled in the landscape for almost a week listening to the best line-up in pop history.

"Sadly some more powerful people were not so keen on the permissiveness and large festivals were soon banned."

The segment aired on Friday, August 23, and here, we have a collection of photos taken at the iconic festival all those years ago. Scroll through the photos above

They featured in two of Isle of Wight historian Alan Stroud’s books covering the 1970 festival, capturing the event from the crowd, as festivalgoers would have experienced it.

Pictures courtesy of Alan Stroud.