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Subsequent festivals were held in Stoke-on-Trent (1986), Glasgow (1988), Gateshead (1990) and Ebbw Vale Garden Festival (1992) which eventually won the competition. The festivals were highly successful in attracting millions of visitors from all over the country to industrial areas long ignored by British tourists.
1 May-4 October - The Ebbw Vale Garden Festival, the last garden festival held in the UK. 6 August - Texaco offers to purchase the entire village of Rhoscrowther which lies immediately adjacent to its Pembroke Refinery. [7] 26 August - Five people are killed in a speedboat accident off Llandudno.
The Ebbw Vale Garden Festival Funicular was a funicular railway built to carry visitors around the Ebbw Vale Garden Festival in 1992. The funicular was intended as a viewpoint across the festival site, as much as a means of transport between levels, and so at 920 metres (3,020 ft) it was quite long by funicular standards although had only a ...
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Glasgow Garden Festival: 1988: 28 April – 26 September: National No United Kingdom: Gateshead, England: Gateshead Garden Festival: 1990: 1 May – 4 October: National No United Kingdom: Ebbw Vale, Wales: Ebbw Vale Garden Festival: 1992: 1 May – 4 October: National No United States: Columbus, Ohio: AmeriFlora '92: 1992: 3 April – 12 ...
The National Garden Festivals were events held in the UK during the 1980s and early 1990s to promote the cultural regeneration of large areas of derelict land in industrial districts. Five were held in total – one every two years, each in a different town or city [ citation needed ] – after the idea was pushed by the Conservative ...
Visits by several members of the royal family and some television stars brought the crowds out across the country.
The original building now houses the Ebbw Vale Steelworks Archive Trust, a voluntary organisation which holds an historical record of steel making in Ebbw Vale, and a "4D" immersive cinema. A newly built wing houses the Gwent Archives , which were moved from Cwmbran , providing 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) of shelving to house thousands of documents ...