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Re: Glasgow Garden Festival 1988

PostPosted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 7:03 pm
by Giffer
In your words Mori..it was only an opinion.

Re: Glasgow Garden Festival 1988

PostPosted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 8:32 pm
by Mori
Giffer wrote:In your words Mori..it was only an opinion.


Thats the 1st ive heard of anyone slate the 1988 GGF !, no doubt there will many more like you.

In my opinion the city turned around after the festival, i seen the demised docks and waterfronts from the the then government that shut down most of the shipbuilding from when i was a youngster during the 60s/70s.

For me and many 100s of 1000s of Glaswegians this was a Godsend and brought much prosperity and recognition to the City.

Are you excited about the 2014 CWG or is the feeling mutual like the 1988 GGF ?

Re: Glasgow Garden Festival 1988

PostPosted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 8:39 pm
by banjo
i loved it.thought it was here one day and gone the next though.much needed colour at just the right time and not too harsh on the pocket as i recall.

Re: Glasgow Garden Festival 1988

PostPosted: Fri Apr 19, 2013 10:39 am
by Dexter St. Clair
Getting an early family season ticket was an unusually good decision for me. Great place to take the young ones and I enjoyed a carefully watched pint of German beer on most visits and a ride on the trams.

Re: Glasgow Garden Festival 1988

PostPosted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 11:12 pm
by Pointyears
Does anyone have any pictures of the talking one-eyed alien cactus thing that was at the GGF?

Re: Glasgow Garden Festival 1988

PostPosted: Thu Mar 27, 2014 11:35 am
by DickyHart
Pointyears wrote:Does anyone have any pictures of the talking one-eyed alien cactus thing that was at the GGF?



Only in HG would you get a question like this!! brilliant.

Re: Glasgow Garden Festival 1988

PostPosted: Wed Jan 21, 2015 11:48 am
by ninatoo
I was rummaging through my Gran's papers today on a genealogy hunt (she died in 1995 so she wouldn't mind me going through her things). I came across this! In her typical way, she made a note on the ticket of the day she attended. She made notes about everything, and I mean everything! This date was four days after her birthday so it could have been a birthday treat.

Re: Glasgow Garden Festival 1988

PostPosted: Sat Mar 07, 2015 12:35 pm
by Verbal Kint

Re: Glasgow Garden Festival 1988

PostPosted: Sat Mar 21, 2015 5:42 pm
by BTJustice
I have been going through some old VHS tapes and found the full 2hr long BBC coverage of the royal opening.

https://youtu.be/kOKTI0UeekQ



Dave

Re: Glasgow Garden Festival 1988

PostPosted: Sat Mar 21, 2015 5:53 pm
by gap74
Ooh, that's my night shift viewing sorted!

Re: Glasgow Garden Festival 1988

PostPosted: Mon Apr 06, 2015 5:56 pm
by Pointyears
BTJustice wrote:I have been going through some old VHS tapes and found the full 2hr long BBC coverage of the royal opening.

https://youtu.be/kOKTI0UeekQ



Dave


Many thanks for posting this! Happy Easter!

Re: Glasgow Garden Festival 1988

PostPosted: Sun Apr 22, 2018 9:41 pm
by BTJustice
3 years since the last reply on this post and 30 years this year since the festival.
To mark the occasion I have put my then and now pictures together in a wee video;



Dave

Re: Glasgow Garden Festival 1988

PostPosted: Sun Apr 22, 2018 11:45 pm
by Delmont St Xavier
Thank you Dave!

I must have been one of the few Glaswegians who never managed to visit the Garden Festival. At that time i worked for a funeral company in Glasgow who were notorious with their staff turn around (eventually I too left) but found myself always 'on call' at the weekend despite their being one other guy who could have taken a turn but he found a way to get out of it and would be so smug about getting along to see it.

He would never swap or offer to take his turn and the bosses of the company never challenged him, allowing him instead to run riot until he up and left and went on to a big chain of funeral directors. His met his Waterloo eventually when he left the big chain and returned to the family firm only to be dismissed some months later.

If it wasn't being 'on call' it would be a wedding or private hire to a racecourse so I never did get along and it is one of my biggest regrets.

Re: Glasgow Garden Festival 1988

PostPosted: Mon Apr 23, 2018 5:46 am
by RDR
Delmont St Xavier wrote:Thank you Dave!

I must have been one of the few Glaswegians who never managed to visit the Garden Festival. At that time i worked for a funeral company in Glasgow who were notorious with their staff turn around (eventually I too left) but found myself always 'on call' at the weekend despite their being one other guy who could have taken a turn but he found a way to get out of it and would be so smug about getting along to see it.

He would never swap or offer to take his turn and the bosses of the company never challenged him, allowing him instead to run riot until he up and left and went on to a big chain of funeral directors. His met his Waterloo eventually when he left the big chain and returned to the family firm only to be dismissed some months later.

If it wasn't being 'on call' it would be a wedding or private hire to a racecourse so I never did get along and it is one of my biggest regrets.


I did manage to go, which since I wasn't living in Glasgow at the time was an achievement in itself. I remember it being a very sunny hot day and it being very very busy. I was impressed at the time but less impressed with the legacy of it, which I can't think of anything that was a direct result of the garden festival.

Re: Glasgow Garden Festival 1988

PostPosted: Sat Aug 10, 2019 7:41 am
by Rachaelmacfarlane
Hey Alan!

I work for the Crowne Plaza- would it be okay if we shared your Dad's pictures?

It's our 30th anniversary of opening in September :)

Many thanks
Rachael