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Gordon Barr @gordonbarr.scot · 04/07/2026

At last - the 1988 show! The dedicated book the Glasgow Garden Festival always deserved is finally here thanks to a huge amount of work from @lexlambwrites.bsky.social Glad to have been a wee part of this through the @glasgowgardenfestival.org team. Get your own copy here: gardenfestivalbook.com

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Dr Edward Stewart @eddiecstewart.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

@urbanprehistorian.bsky.social I see the ‘Glasglow’ at the botanics this year features some throwbacks to @glasgowgardenfestival.org! There’s also a set of doors in the GGF colours and an arch of flowers, a hot air balloon, and a mini uppy-down-ride?

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Lex Lamb @lexlamb.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Hello all. I am shamelessly here to hustle orders for 'The 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival'! The first full account of the Glasgow Garden Festival is now available to preview and pre-order. And a print of the Garden Festival sketch map is available right now! gardenfestivalbook.com

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The 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival - a book

The first full account of the Glasgow Garden Festival - publishing July 2026

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Gordon Barr @gordonbarr.scot · 23/05/2025

Meanwhile it was nice to spot our new @glasgowgardenfestival.org walking trail that takes you round the former site of the Glasgow Garden Festival 1988 out in the wild in leaflet stands across Glasgow today! You can also download a digital copy at 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 · 06/02/2025

Our own Dr Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social delivering his lecture on the Archaeology of the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival at the Society of Antiquaries last month. (Strong recommend!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V3E...

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The archaeology of the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival

YouTube video by Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

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Nessie @amdme.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

@glasgowgardenfestival.org Found another leaflet, this one for the Clydesdale Tower.

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

It was built by Mctaggart & Mickel as a temporary structure for the festival, which ran for five months. Here's my copy of the brochure, which contains the background story on the design... (THREAD)

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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

If you missed my Society of Antiqs of Scotland lecture last week on The archaeology of the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival, fear not! @glasgowgardenfestival.org @glasgowheritage.bsky.social You can now watch it here: youtu.be/_V3EGcS-Ilw

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The archaeology of the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival

YouTube video by Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

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AtGF1988: After the Garden Festival @glasgowgardenfestival.org · 12/12/2024

One of the finds from our Glasgow City Heritage Trust funded digs earlier this year at the site of the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival made a list of the top 5 finds of the year - and featured on the BBC Scotland news homepage today! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Glasgow plant pot tag among 'amazing archaeological finds'

The discovery made in Glasgow is on a list of top five Scottish artefacts for 2024.

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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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whiskyneil.bsky.social @whiskyneil.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Was shown these during your What Remains tour last December. It was very interesting. A special bottle of whisky.

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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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Alistair Fair @alistairfair.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

From the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival: a postmodern pavilion.

Postmodern building with banded elevations and big projecting eaves

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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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