Recording the form, story and legacy of the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival with @LambLex, @GordonBarr & @urbanprehisto (Pic J McDougall, CC 2.0)
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Great to see copies of @LambLex’s 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival book out in the wild aka the Kelvingrove Museum shop.
Also some GGF artefacts on display in the Glasgow gallery. @AtGF1988
ALT Lex Lamb’s Glasgow Garden Festival book
ALT Glasgow Garden Festival uniform and book on display in the Kelvingrove Museum shop
After the Garden Festival... retweeted
Some news! On 26 September I will be appearing at the Byres Road Book Festival in conversation with the journalist Mark Smith about my book, 'The 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival'. Tickets available here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/lex-lamb-…
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The first full account of the event which changed how Glasgow is seen by the world, and how it sees itself: a lavishly-illustrated 200-page hardback, available here.
‘Superb… a proper landmark Glasgow publication’ (Rory Olcayto)
gardenfestivalbook.com/
Anyone know anyone that might have worked at Yorkhill Children's Hospital around 1990? We've had a report that the extraordinary animatronic McVitie's Clock was placed at reception there after the Garden Festival and we'd love this to be true. glasgowgardenfestival.org/ob…
It’s always lovely to hear that our efforts are appreciated (and that the boards remain remarkably un-vandalised for now)
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It's 38 years to the day since the Glasgow Garden Festival threw open its gates to the general public, with Charles and Diana coming along the following day to cut the ribbon. It attracted 4.3 million visitors during its 152 day run.
#Glasgow
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Announcement: preview pages and the opportunity to pre-order 'The 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival' (a 220pp hardback book, lavishly illustrated and featuring a full gazetteer) will be available next week, along with a surprise item! Publication will take place this summer.
ALT Front cover of a forthcoming book on the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival
Though Harding himself didn’t produce work for the Garden Festival, his stamp and influence is all over the Artworks Programme, with his successor Malcolm Robertson, assistant Stan Bonnar and the likes of Shona Kinloch all producing significant work for the event.
I was sad to hear of the recent death of David Harding, the first town artist for the new town of Glen Rothes in Fife, the former head of Environmental Art at the Glasgow School of Art and the god-father of post-war public art in Scotland.
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#glasgow #publicart #sculpture
Bit pricey, this - but it is an extremely unusual bit of GGF merch. ebay.co.uk/itm/317985082982?…
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Good news. Next up needs to be the Glasgow Garden Festival waterfall in Festival Park and Kelvingrove Park’s Kelvin Wheelies skatepark.
HES are seeking views on the proposal to designate the archaeological remains of the pavilion at First Hampden as a scheduled monument historicenvironment.scot/abo…
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Garden Festival Book update: read-through and fact-checking with another two veteran GGF designers this morning went well. Also currently awaiting confirmation (or otherwise) that a future Turner Prize winner worked as a chef in a Garden Festival cafe!
Bell's Bridge being lowered into place by the 250-tonne Mersey Mammoth floating crane, 4th November 1987. What is now the Crown Plaza hotel is just beginning to be built. (Credit: Bob Jones archive)
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One of the very last remaining new-to-me Glasgow Garden Festival survivors on the list, so I seized an opportunity to seek out the Walter Segal self-build house at Monimail Tower. Heavily modified but probably one of the only two currently inhabited original GGF structures.
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I finally have written conformation of the previously merely anecdotal appearance of live pink flamingoes as part of a garden display in the SEC during the Garden Festival. (Oddly, via an article quoting the father of one of the biggest contributors to the @AtGF1988 archive.)
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Thanks for flagging this up again Niall, of interest of course to @AtGF1988 - and another sad indication that for some organisations, 1988 is not old enough to be considered as our heritage....
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