Do you remember the Garden Festival Wales, Blaenau Gwent

In 1992 the Ebbw Vale Garden Festival Wales was opened.  

Located near the Brecon Beacons National Park with easy access from both the M4 and the A465 "Heads of the Valleys" roads it drew over two million visitors during the five months it was open.

The site was originally part of the Iron & Steel Works and since the festival has become home to1000 houses, a fishing lake, Festival Church, an owl sanctuary, woodlands and a shopping centre.

Your Memories are required

for a new 

Exhibition of Memories!!

Blaenau Gwent Borough Council are planning an exhibition of memories in 2012.
  
They have joined forced with 3VTV to make a series of films about the festival.  One of these films will be devoted to your personal memories.

You can complete a survey form at www.blaenau-gwent.gov.uk with your experiences, or forward video footage of the festival that may be sitting in a drawer.

For more information call 01495 355937.

Images included in this article were designed by Penknife Ltd., Cardiff for the original Garden Festival leaflet.


This website gives the political history behind the 1992 Garden Festival at Ebbw Vale:
http://www.gardenfestivalwales.co.uk/index.php?p=before