Ebbw Vale Institute Schedule

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However the deep valley proved difficult to bomb and the plant survived.

The National Eisteddfod will return to Ebbw Vale in 2010 and will be sited on the new WORKS site.In 1992, the town hosted the Ebbw Vale Garden Festival, the last.Aneurin Bevan, the "father" of the National Health Service, represented Ebbw Vale as a Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) in Parliament from the 1929 general election.

These days Ebbw Vale RFC still compete at a semi-professional level in the WRU Principality Premiership along with the Welsh Cup.

Alongside this there is also the Ebbw Vale campus of Coleg Gwent, a Further Education college teaching a range of subjects from Mechanics, Media Studies, Humanities to Hairdressing and Beauty therapy.

The Ebbw Vale Iron Works later to become the Ebbw Steel works and opened in 1778, followed by the opening of a number of coal mines around 1790.

Since the festival the site has been renamed Festival Park and has slowly become dilapidated over 16 years due to lack of care and attention. Garden Festival of Wales website It is now the site of the Festival Park Branded Outlet, a retail outlet comprising approximately forty shops.Ebbw Vale last hosted the National Eisteddfod in 1958.