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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 ...
Visits by several members of the royal family and some television stars brought the crowds out across the country.
1992 in Wales; 0–9. 1992 United Kingdom general election in Wales; E. Ebbw Vale Garden Festival; L. Llanelli RFC 13–9 Australia; P. Murder of Edna Phillips
Jeff Banks CBE PPCSD (born Jeffrey Tatham-Banks, 17 March 1943) is a Welsh fashion designer of men's and women's clothing, jewellery, and home furnishings.Born in Ebbw Vale, Wales, Banks co-founded the fashion chain Warehouse in the late 1970s.
The actress helped inspire the look for the famous logo, one of several actresses ordered by Columbia Pictures to pose as Miss Liberty, for which she was only paid $25. (Photo: Tim Boyle ...
It was an unsurprising choice for the royal, who has worn the brand for many of her outings as a royal.