Glastonbury—lock gates graveyard

IF YOU have ever wondered what happens to old discarded lock gates, the answer is they end up as part of Glastonbury Festival.

70 old lock gates, including those recently removed from the Kennet & Avon Canal, have been taken to the site of the Glastonbury Festival to make a bull ring.

Work is underway to create a 200 seats arena, where mock bull fights will be staged with an artificial bull, with festival founder Michael Eavis explaining:

"We've got to do one new project every year, and this is it. I've got 50 of these 10 inch thick lock gates, and I need another 20 to build it—but it's going to be fantastic.

"I've got this bullfighter coming over from Portugal with a cape to fight an artificial bull in a mock bull fight."

Most of the gates came from the Caen Hill Flight, but this is not the first time lock gates have been used at the festival. Last year old gates were used to construct bridges.