New Food Hall showcases quality

The new landmark Food Hall, costing around £1.7 million, is one of the most ambitious projects completed at Llanelwedd since the Royal Welsh moved to its permanent site in 1963.

It will provide double the exhibition space of its predecessor, occupies a prime position on the showground fronting the South Glamorgan Exhibition Hall with access off the main thoroughfare between the Montgomery Pavilion and the old Food Hall which is being put to other uses.

“The level of investment made by the society in the new Food Hall indicates the importance placed on showcasing and promoting the quality food and drink produced in Wales,” says Royal Welsh chief executive, David Walters.

Attracting crowds

“The old Food Hall was opened in 1992 and has always attracted the public in large numbers to view, taste and select from the large variety of products on display.

“The new facility provides much more space and flexibility to do this more effectively.”

What show visitors will not see, however, is the Forestry Commission Wales pavilion which has stood at the entrance to the forestry section for the past 27 years.

It has been dismantled – but the building has been carefully taken down, log by log, and rebuilt just down the road in Newbridge-on-Wye, where it will have a fitting retirement as a forestry training building where foresters of the future will be able to learn their trade.

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