(The first in a series of posts about my new home town!)
Forgive me if, over the coming weeks, you get a little inundated by photographs from my new home town of Glastonbury in Somerset!
As mentioned previously, it’s only direct connection with the music festival is its name, and it was never this that drew me to Somerset.
The town is very open to people of different faiths, beliefs, and lifestyles, and the residents – myself included – are often drawn to live here by way of some unknown, unfathomable force.
For the uninitiated, the small market town is extremely Bohemian and accepting of most things. You can happily wander down the High Street and pass people wearing steampunk clothing, or fairy wings, or flowery headbands, or kaftans, or tie dye, or Hunter boots and wax jackets, or all of the above. Tourists are often a little stunned by this diversity; you can tell the locals by the fact they are totally nonplussed by this.
The shops in the town are just as diverse as the people who frequent them (and this, in fact, has helped Glastonbury retail stay afloat while other High Streets have suffered a downturn over the last decade or so).
My first post dedicated to the town, therefore, highlights these retail establishments, in all their diversity and colour.
(Click on an image to see a larger version.)
CKPonderingsToo 
Great post 🙂
I hope you soon settle into your new surroundings and from these shots and your words it looks like an interesting place to be.
I am of course a big fan of shop fronts and it’s great to pick out individual fronts rather than a block or a run of shopfronts. Individually we start to see something more interesting.
I don’t know if you ever visited my Shop Fronts of Sheffield site? If you are interested then there is a link below. Admittedly it is a site that hasn’t been maintained of late…!
Best wishes
Mr C
https://shopfrontsofsheffield.wordpress.com
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Thank you Mr C! I will check it out! 🙂 Richard
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I really like the giant street-art keyboard on the wall beside the music shop. 🙂
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It’s quite something, isn’t it?!
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That’s quite a riot of retail colour, Richard. About the nearest thing we have up here is Hebden Bridge, also a little on the alternative spectrum 😉
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Haha! Glastonbury does like to pt on a show! 🙂
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Sounds like a cool place to live. So you’ve left Worthing then?
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Yup, we moved down to Somerset nearly four weeks ago now. 🙂 And yes, Glastonbury is a really cool place to live! 🙂
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Cool and good for you!
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