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Carlisle Fairgrounds is located in downtown Carlisle, Pennsylvania. It is the home of Carlisle Events and the location for the largest collector car and truck events in the country. Prior to Carlisle Events' emergence, anyone interested in restoring or showing 1950s- or 1960s-era cars had few options.
Norden Farm Centre for the Arts is a multi form arts centre located in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England providing a 225-seat theatre and 100-seat studio space. Following calls for an arts centre in Maidenhead since the 1970s, Norden Farm eventually opened in September 2000. [1]
Carlisle Park is a park located on the southern bank of the River Wansbeck in Morpeth, Northumberland. [1] The park has the William Turner Garden, [2] [3] an aviary, a paddling pool, [4] an ancient woodland, tennis courts, [5] several bowling greens and a skate park. [1] The park has one of the only four floral clocks in England, which was ...
Dobbies Garden Centre, Aberdeen. The business was founded in 1865 by James Dobbie, who created a seeds business named Dobbie & Co. in Renfrew, Scotland.After being awarded the Royal Warrant for Gardeners and Nurserymen to the Royal Household, the company expanded into a seed catalogue business, where it built up a customer base of 50,000 over the following century.
In the summer of 2016, the local council purchased land from the adjacent Thrift Wood Farm to extend the park by 86 acres (35 ha) to add to the original 44 acres (18 ha). [3] [6] The site was open to the public in April 2017 after having been cleared of equipment from the previous owners and a bridge to the existing park site being built. [7]
The park was originally part of the estate belonging to Braywick Lodge. [3] In 1969 the 19th-century mansion was demolished, but the stables were saved and refurbished in 1989 to provide a nature centre. [3] In 1999 the site was declared as a local nature reserve by the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. [1]
The park covers an area of 22 acres (0.1 km 2). Opening times vary by season: park gates are opened at 07:00am and closed at/after dusk e.g. at around 16:00pm in mid-winter, and in the summer it can stay open 'til as late as 21:00pm; notices re park closing-times are posted on all three park entrances. [ 1 ]
The Maidenhead Archaeological & Historical Society, [3] founded in 1960–1, collaborates with the centre. [4] In December 2006, the centre and museum moved to a permanent location in Park Street. Special exhibitions are organised and presented, [5] for example one on Maidenhead Bridge, the main historic road bridge to the east of the town, in ...