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The Knebworth Festival was a recurring open-air rock and pop festival held on the grounds of the Knebworth House in Knebworth, England. The festival first occurred in July 1974 when The Allman Brothers Band , The Doobie Brothers and other artists attracted 60,000 people.
The grounds of Knebworth House near the village of Knebworth had been a major venue for open air rock and pop concerts since 1974. In 1979, veteran promoter Freddy Bannister booked Led Zeppelin to play that year's concerts which took place on 4 August [1] and 11 August [2] after the bandleader of the Electric Light Orchestra, Jeff Lynne, turned down the offer to headline the festival.
Easton Town Center is a shopping center and mall in northeast Columbus, Ohio, United States.Opened in 1999, the core buildings and streets that comprise Easton are intended to look like a self-contained town, reminiscent of American towns and cities in the early-to-mid 20th century.
Knebworth House in 2007. Knebworth House is an English country house in the parish of Knebworth in Hertfordshire, England. It is a Grade II* listed building. [1] Its gardens are also listed Grade II* on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. [2] In its surrounding park are the medieval St. Mary's Church and the Lytton family mausoleum.
In the 1960s the Lytton Cobbolds undertook an extensive renovation of Knebworth House. They opened it to the public in 1971. [2] The title of her best-selling 1986 memoir, Board Meetings in the Bath: How We Opened Knebworth House to the Public, [1] was inspired by the bathtub she had installed in the kitchen of their Little Venice home.
In the late 1960s, Clough Mill in Birkby was bought with plans for 90,000 sq ft hypermarket, objections delayed opening until 1978 and it was sold to Asda in 1980. Remaining stores were bought in 1991 for more than £5 million. [113] The brand was sold to Co-operative Retail Services in March 1995. [114] Lowfreeze: Bought by Bejam
The Knebworth and Winter Green Railway was a 1 ft 11 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (597 mm) narrow gauge railway built in the grounds of Knebworth House in 1972 as a tourist attraction.. The railway was built by Pleasurerail Ltd. a company set up to build and operate private tourist railways which included the Great Whipsnade Railway and also the line at Blenheim Palace.
Knebworth is a village and civil parish in the north of Hertfordshire, England, immediately south of Stevenage.The civil parish covers an area between the villages of Datchworth, Woolmer Green, Codicote, Kimpton, Whitwell, St Paul's Walden and Langley, and encompasses the village of Knebworth, the small village of Old Knebworth and Knebworth House.