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What a beautiful day we had for our Parish Open Day!\u00a0 We hosted almost 1000 parishioners; that’s about 20% of the village.\u00a0 Our M.P. Kevin Bonavia joined us, attending also the Twinning AGM, on what I reminded him is meant to be his one day off (Sunday).\u00a0 Here we are in front of Knebworth House… and, yes, that’s the 50 Years of Knebworth Rock Concerts jacket I\u2019m wearing, because I’d been signing copies of my new book on the subject.<\/p>\n

I’ll be doing that again on the second May Bank Holiday Monday (26th).\u00a0 I’ll repeat the talk I gave for Knebworth Twinning last September, so if you missed it here\u2019s a second chance to hear my romp through all the fun and frolics of 50 years of Knebworth Park Concerts.\u00a0 I\u2019ll do the talk at 11am and at 2pm, and your ticket will include a visit to our concert exhibit; and of course the Gardens and Park will be open for you to go find the spot in the field where you were standing when Led Zeppelin played \u2018Stairway To Heaven\u2019 or Oasis played \u2018Wonderwall\u2019.<\/p>\n

Details are on the Knebworth House website, as they are for the other talk I\u2019m giving in May, a repeat of another talk I have given for Knebworth Twinning, on the mystery surrounding my ancestor Emily Bulwer Lytton.\u00a0 This talk will be in the context of the unusual peripatetic childhood she shared with her brother Robert, whose role as Viceroy of India during the Second Afghan War is the subject of a full day\u2019s conference in the Cobbold Barn on Friday 16th May.\u00a0 So, whether your interest is politics or rock & roll, there\u2019s history for everyone at Knebworth House this May!<\/p>\n

Henry Lytton Cobbold
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