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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.
In 1992, the Ebbw Vale Garden Festival was the last National Garden Festival. It was sited on the south side of the recently demolished steel works. The festival ran for five months between May and October 1992 attracting over two million visitors. The development cost around £18 million.
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 ...
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
Stoke-on-Trent Garden Festival, 1986. [2] Now mostly maturing garden parkland, with some retail and offices. Glasgow Garden Festival, 1988. [3] Now the Glasgow Science Centre, and a digital media village on the banks of the River Clyde. Gateshead Garden Festival, 1990. [1] Now a housing estate. Ebbw Vale Garden Festival, 1992. Now a mix of ...
Visits by several members of the royal family and some television stars brought the crowds out across the country.
It was on this part of the site that Blaenau Gwent Borough Council approved a bid for the 1992 National Garden Festival, awarded to the council and site in November 1988. It was billed as Garden Festival Wales and attracted over 2 million visitors to South Wales. [1] [13]