Reputedly the biggest ever audience for the Big Z ( although IOW 69 would have been close in the running stakes ) , The Picnic at Blackbushe was also one of the biggest ever events staged by promoter Harvey Goldsmith ( of Crystal Palace Garden Party fame ). This time round Goldsmith continued the ' English Coutnry garden ' theme he had adopted for Crystal palace and applied it to Blackbushe. Unfortunately the Aerodrome was not anywhere near as picturesque as the verdant surroundings of Crystal Palace, it was , like almost all aerodromes, flat and featureless, and when the 200,000 plus punters had managed to cram themselves into its confines, if you were up the back there wasn't a great deal to see really , as there were no video screens .

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