The Festival
Ebbw Vale was chosen as the last British Garden Festival site (1992) because of the waste land which had been the British Steel (Corus) steel and tin works, part of which had been demolished in the early 1980s. The festival began on 1 May 1992 and ran until 4 October 1992. As well as gardens, plant exhibitions and fairground-style attractions the festival also featured a funicular railway, the Ebbw Vale Garden Festival Funicular.
The Festival Park (Garden Festival) site is now occupied by over 1000 houses, a fishing lake, Festival Church, an owl sanctuary, Mother Earth, woodlands and a shopping centre.
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