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dr_lightning wrote:What's left from it? Apart from the Bells Bridge and the Rotunda, of course....
escotregen wrote:I'm a bit surprised at the number of postings playing the Festival down. I was full growed up when I went and our crowd all thought it was a great success for Glasgow. It was the only one of the run of 'International' garden festivals in the UK in those years that got to put its name in the start of the Festival name. Glasgow's was seen as the best succcess, when Liverpool tried to outdo it for the next Festival it failed to make the same impact. The 'failure' of the Festival wasn't really within its control - it was intended to kick start the regeneration of Govan and the Clyde Waterfront areabut the Thatcherism induced recession of that decade put paid to any development prospects
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