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Ebbw Vale
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on Thursday, December 26th, 2002 at 9:35 am
Ebbw Vale is located in the South East of Wales. It is an old steel making town, which employed a large percentage of the population. The Steelworks was finally shut down completely in June 2002, and the last of the steelworkers marched through the town on their day of departure. ebbwvale/right The last part of the steelworks pictured in the background was recently demolished, and a hospital is rumored to be built on the old site.Ebbw Vale was the center of attention in the UK, when it was host to the 1992 Garden Festival. The reclaimed landscape has since been turned into a housing community, with parts of the garden festival still visible, and a small shopping center with a view of the surrounding landscape is one of the local attractions.
festival/left Personally I think they should have built an amusment park. It would have been a continuing source of revenue for the town, not to mention a good employment source. Instead we have housing way out of the price range of any young locals hoping to stay in the area.
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