“We love you Knebworth”
Roger Daltry, of the rock band The Who, quoted in The Times, 11th June 2006
Thank you, Roger. I don’t recall him saying this, but it’s nice to see a journalist inventing something positive for a change! 41 years, almost to the week, since The Who played the Bowes Lyon Centre in Stevenage they returned to North Herts to play a private party for an international stockbrokers conference in the Park on 7th June. Park numbers were small for us – only a few thousand – but the conference received good national and international coverage. Our licensing officers, as they are for all Park events, were on hand, rigorous, and content. The stockbrokers had a wonderful time – and everyone present will, I believe, remember Knebworth with love.
This month it’s Knebworth Village’s turn for a festival and we are very pleased to be the venue for “Secrets of Knebworth House Gardens” – which I believe is sold out! The Knebworth House Education and Preservation Trust has made the Gardens available, Knebworth Barns is providing Pimms on the terrace and a subsidised barbeque in the Garden Terrace Room – and David Roberts, the Head Gardener, will be exploring with guests, the familiar and the less familiar corners of his 28-acre domain. David’s one request is that no member of the Lytton Cobbold family join the tour (what “secrets” will he be revealing?!) – but he can rest easy, we couldn’t get a ticket if we tried!
Henry Lytton Cobbold
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