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AtGF1988: After the Garden Festival

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Recording the form, story and legacy of the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival with LambLex, @GordonBarr.scot & @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social (Pic J McDougall, CC 2.0) www.glasgowgardenfestival.org

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AtGF1988: After the Garden Festival @glasgowgardenfestival.org · 28/04/2025
Our profound thanks are due to @glasgowheritage.bsky.social and Glasgow Riverside Innovation District whose funding enabled this project to take place. And in case you're wondering, that's @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social @gordonbarr.scot and Lex Lamb celebrating the occasion this morning...
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AtGF1988: After the Garden Festival @glasgowgardenfestival.org · 28/04/2025
The walking tour leaflet is now being distributed to sites across Glasgow and is also available digitally from our website. The two boards can be seen at the site of the Festival Waterfall and Lochan at Festival Park, G51 1HJ www.glasgowgardenfestival.org/wp-content/u...
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AtGF1988: After the Garden Festival @glasgowgardenfestival.org · 28/04/2025
It's the 37th anniversary of the Glasgow Garden Festival’s Public Opening Day, and hence a fitting occasion to announce our new walking tour leaflet and interpretation boards. The two boards in Festival Park mark the first onsite recognition of the event.
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AtGF1988: After the Garden Festival @glasgowgardenfestival.org · 07/12/2024
which aligns closely with the after-use model exhibited at the Festival itself - these would appear to have the same ultimate source. (Credit: JC Raulston Arboretum at NC State University)
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AtGF1988: After the Garden Festival @glasgowgardenfestival.org · 07/12/2024
This after-use study shows a marina, housing planned for where the BBC, Science Centre and business park are today, and a business park where housing was finally built! (Plus a nice 'Riverside Area' with hotel, restaurants, etc., roughly where the STV studios are now located.)
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AtGF1988: After the Garden Festival @glasgowgardenfestival.org · 07/12/2024
This (frustratingly undated) document - an inventory of tree stock for reuse - shows the proposed Pacific Drive, cut right across the Garden Festival site.
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AtGF1988: After the Garden Festival @glasgowgardenfestival.org · 07/12/2024
Some more fascinating Garden Festival documents came to light recently - in this case relevant to the proposed afteruse of the site, and very interesting in the light of what actually came to pass. (Credit: Ann and David Lever archive)
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AtGF1988: After the Garden Festival @glasgowgardenfestival.org · 29/11/2024
From the archives: East Kilbride’s Anniversary – Tram Stop Credit: Morven Maciver (1988) Sculpture at Priestknowe Roundabout, East Kilbride, May 2023 – Credit: Claire J www.glasgowgardenfestival.org/object_recor...
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AtGF1988: After the Garden Festival @glasgowgardenfestival.org · 25/11/2024
From the archives: Bell’s Bridge Credit: 1 - Donald Whannell (1988) 2 - Gordon Barr (2022) www.glasgowgardenfestival.org/object_recor...
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AtGF1988: After the Garden Festival @glasgowgardenfestival.org · 23/11/2024
From the archives: Tourist Information, High Street. Credit: Ross Mackay www.glasgowgardenfestival.org/object_recor...
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AtGF1988: After the Garden Festival @glasgowgardenfestival.org · 21/11/2024
From the archives: Decoration of Bollards (Daniel Buren) Credit: Richard East (1988) Gordon Barr (2023) www.glasgowgardenfestival.org/object_recor...
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AtGF1988: After the Garden Festival @glasgowgardenfestival.org · 19/11/2024
From the archives: Waterfall/Cascade Credit: Ian White 1988a / Gordon Barr 1988b / @gordonbarr.scot 2022 www.glasgowgardenfestival.org/object_recor...
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AtGF1988: After the Garden Festival @glasgowgardenfestival.org · 19/11/2024
From the archives: Flower Piece III (Jake Kempsall) Credit: Donald McCrae www.glasgowgardenfestival.org/object_recor...
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AtGF1988: After the Garden Festival @glasgowgardenfestival.org · 18/11/2024
From the archives: Reclining Woman (Dhruva Mistry) Credit: Donald McCrae Have you seen this statue recently? If so, please let us know! We’d love to find out what happened to it…. www.glasgowgardenfestival.org/object_recor...
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