The Garden festival then and now; Astonishing Glasgow Ep39

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  • Опубликовано: 27 окт 2024

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  • @Mevmotto
    @Mevmotto Год назад +4

    Best school trip ever!

  • @calanm7880
    @calanm7880 Год назад +30

    Astonishing work went into this: the research, the travel to where these artefacts now live, and the awesome editing of old photos placed in perfect perspective with modern footage. This should be on the TV - way more interesting and relevant than plenty of the guff on the box!

  • @Kal-ir9ze
    @Kal-ir9ze Год назад +1

    Ahhhhh the memories

  • @joannepaul7889
    @joannepaul7889 2 месяца назад +1

    Superb!! I was 5 years old when I visited the garden festival...memorable place for me ❤

  • @connormeechan5784
    @connormeechan5784 Год назад +1

    Great Video👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

  • @ariescustom
    @ariescustom Год назад +2

    I grew up in Glenrothes in Fife, we ended up with Malcolm Robertson's big metal Iris sculptures, Glenrothes' contibution to the garden festival, just around the corner from our home. Now I live in Ibrox, just around the corner from their festival location.
    I remember not long after they returned to Glenrothes and were installed I moved a "Heavy Plant Crossing" sign from a nearby work site in front of them and someone thought that was funny enough that it got in the local paper The Glenrothes Gazette. 🤣
    Great video.

  • @Tommybhoy-df9hk
    @Tommybhoy-df9hk Год назад +1

    Great video mate

  • @davehedgehog4391
    @davehedgehog4391 Год назад +1

    Brilliantly researched video and very well put together 👍

  • @Htiler
    @Htiler Год назад +1

    Great to see those photographs people sent in, keep them coming.

  • @dmcn6940
    @dmcn6940 Год назад +1

    Great video. Good job

  • @dmgsoultogetherness6667
    @dmgsoultogetherness6667 Год назад +1

    fantastic video

  • @taxidude
    @taxidude Год назад +2

    A lot of travel, research and hard work went into this. Thanks!

  • @marjoryross2754
    @marjoryross2754 Год назад +1

    Great video and a ton of work🇨🇦

  • @DiscoverWithPajerico
    @DiscoverWithPajerico 3 месяца назад +1

    I remember most of the things shown here on my visit as a 13-year-old and have always remembered how much I enjoyed it, great work putting this together and thanks for the flashbacks 👌🏼

  • @stephenlemon8270
    @stephenlemon8270 Год назад +1

    Well done great video I always enjoy your videos

  • @VONMEEK
    @VONMEEK Год назад +1

    Thank you so much for this vid! I was 12 at the time and so great to see it all again 😊

  • @TheDon-m3h
    @TheDon-m3h Год назад +1

    A wee trip doon memory lane 👍♥️

  • @hamishpaterson2413
    @hamishpaterson2413 9 месяцев назад +2

    Brilliant! Loved this, brought back so many fond memories - it was an amazing event, one Glasgow should be very proud of!

  • @ayeright
    @ayeright Год назад

    Thanks!

  • @pattyd3205
    @pattyd3205 Год назад +2

    LOVED this brilliant Video.
    Glasgow is and always will be my FAVOURITE Scottish City 😀
    🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  • @hettyscetty9785
    @hettyscetty9785 Год назад +1

    This is pretty cool, the festival itself is a bit before my time but its pretty cool to see the event that changed the city's reputation for the better.

  • @traceymiller7441
    @traceymiller7441 Месяц назад +1

    I really enjoyed this video. Thank you for your hard work!

  • @DarrenCGraham
    @DarrenCGraham Год назад

    Your doing an amazing job man. Love the videos and this one’s the cherry on top

  • @rickyhaggerty6159
    @rickyhaggerty6159 Год назад +1

    That was brilliant! Great bit of nostalgia and can't believe I drive past the furkin trowel 😂😂😂 every day.... Had no idea that was them! 👌👍

  • @Glesga_lassie
    @Glesga_lassie Год назад +8

    I have lots of photos and professional videos from this. I went with my gran a couple of times, and separately my grandad (they were divorced so different occasions). My grandad was a professional videographer so took videos of every time we were out with him and his wife. I have footage of this, the carnival at the exhibition centre, Strathclyde park carnival, lots more I can't remember. We were given the tapes and I have so many of them. My mum got some transferred on to dvd years ago. Wish I'd saw your messages looking for footage as I could have sent it to you, and the photos. Love the video, I was 8/9 at the time and remember it so well.

    • @AstonishingGlasgow
      @AstonishingGlasgow  Год назад +10

      Oh, wow. You need to get that uploaded to you tube as there is so little footage from the festival out there a lot of people would love to see it, me included.

  • @skyhill4279
    @skyhill4279 10 месяцев назад +2

    Great video. I'm not on social media except this platform so didn't see your plea. I have lots of photos I took at the festival. It was held mainly in Princes Dock where I worked when it was a cargo dock. Love your videos!

    • @AstonishingGlasgow
      @AstonishingGlasgow  10 месяцев назад +2

      Im starting to think about a part two so I may be in touch if thats OK?

    • @skyhill4279
      @skyhill4279 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@AstonishingGlasgow most certainly!

  • @georgekerr9630
    @georgekerr9630 Год назад +1

    Fantastic work mate ,that Festival inspired me to become a landscaper for the last 30 year

  • @jamchiell
    @jamchiell Год назад +21

    Brilliant video. What a lot of research and effort to make this video. Thank you so much. I feel a little sad because I moved to London at that time and missed the whole thing. All my mates went and I always feel that I missed out on something great.

  • @dustymillar7026
    @dustymillar7026 Год назад +7

    I'm the sole survivor of the Saltcoats Harbour Band who were regular performers at the festival. My wife and I visited it often, taking advantage of our free ticket, and I even got a solo gig entertaining guests at a private company soiree on board the Blue Bird, where my wife and I were wind and dined and given accommodation! Oh the memories! The band also wrote and performed a song for an earlier contest about our wee pal "Oor Wullie", who was of course, resident at the festival! Thanks for these great memories ❤

    • @AstonishingGlasgow
      @AstonishingGlasgow  Год назад

      Thank you very much for sharing your story and I am glad the video brought back good memories.

  • @janetmackinnon3411
    @janetmackinnon3411 Год назад +2

    Oh I remember the Festival! We had season tickets, and used them often .I remember the wonderful Irish grass garden....Thank you for such pleasant memories!

  • @YokoBhoona_Raistlin
    @YokoBhoona_Raistlin 9 месяцев назад +1

    Hi. I found your channel last year while looking for photos/vids of the Garden Festival. I'm quite a reclusive person, always have been but every now and then throughout my life I randomly make a connection with someone that leaves a mark and I believe you are one of these people. If I'm right I met you and your mother at the festival as you took photos and I asked you both about it. I was 13 at the time and had previously been there as part of a school trip. We ended up talking about the history of some of the festival attractions, Glasgow's Statues of Liberty, Scotland Street and some other stuff. I for sure remember seeing you at the waterfall feature as that was my favourite piece there. Great to see that you still have your health and zest for life. Your vids have been helping me remember those times and for that I truly thank you. They really are inspirational.

    • @AstonishingGlasgow
      @AstonishingGlasgow  9 месяцев назад +1

      Thanks for getting in touch and Im really glad you found my channel. Im a great believer in not trying to change the whole world but trying my best to make my wee bit of the world better and even better if it brings a smile to other people. If you did get chatting, I do tend to waffle on so apologies if you were trying to get away from me as I went off on a rabble. There are so many places in Glasgow that hold stories that need to be told and I just try and tell them. Have a great year and I hope you hang around for more videos when I make them.

    • @YokoBhoona_Raistlin
      @YokoBhoona_Raistlin 9 месяцев назад

      @AstonishingGlasgow Hi. Yeah, I'll be around for sure. I know I sound unsure that we met back then but that's just because, we'll, to put it bluntly, before we met I had childhood trauma that led me to suppress my past memories, starting with the bad and then finishing with the good. We definitely did meet. I said to both of you that I had a phobia about having my photo taken but I may have asked you to take a photo with me by the end as you were both such genuine, nice people and I knew even then how rare and previous that is. If I didn't ask you to take a photo with me then it's likely that I was kicking myself about it for years afterwards. The past few years fragments have been resurfacing and I've been using the Internet to help me put the pieces together. That's when I found your content. Your reply has helped me more than you could imagine. I remember your mum and perhaps you also telling me you talk too much and apologising in the same way you did in your reply. I replied that it was fine and I laughed and said to you both that you'd probably met your match in me and nit to worry about it. I remember telling you both about Charles Rennie Mackintosh and some of the places you have visited on your channel here on YT are one's I mentioned back then. I also told you I had recruited guys door to door from my primary school and convinced them all to go on historical walks in my hometown of Coatbridge. One of these walks was from Coatbridge to Calderbank and back again in the same day. A very hot summer day walk along the Monklands Canal pathway to the Calderbank end with the lily pond and Eurocentral which was still in part under construction. I had been inspired by The Goonies and Stand by Me and I asked them to think about those movies and how good it would be to look back on trips like that we had taken ourselves as children without any adult supervision. We were at most 10 or 11 years old. I'm not on social media, only YT but I'd like to stay in touch by email or something. You lead an incredibly packed and busy life so it would be at your convenience. I'm flexible but can take a while to reply to messages, like just now lol. Great to hear from you man.

  • @dinkiydoo70
    @dinkiydoo70 Год назад

    Outstanding work this is superb thank you 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 o and there is giant flowers in Glenrothes from the festival

  • @tygrawr
    @tygrawr 7 месяцев назад +1

    This was a wonderful video. Love seeing that some of the festivals pieces are still able to be seen today.

  • @Gazzi79
    @Gazzi79 Год назад +1

    Wow that's truly amazing! Thanks. Went there twice when I was 8 with school...simply magical.

  • @WeeShooey
    @WeeShooey Год назад

    Thanks

  • @FenderTele
    @FenderTele Год назад +4

    An absolutely amazing piece of work, it's hard to believe that the festival was so long ago . This documentary is worthy as a pilot for a T.V series ,I'd certainly watch such a series. I could see it running for multiple seasons to cover all your work.

  • @Kevin-j4g4h
    @Kevin-j4g4h 8 месяцев назад +1

    Thank you for the memories, born in Rutherglen in '81, i was at the festival in '88 and often think back on those days

  • @Alistair14
    @Alistair14 Год назад +1

    Yet another fantastic video. I was a very regular visitor and my own stories with which to bore people at the drop of the proverbial hat (I am not alone in this, I am sure). I was there on the first day and the last, and many days in between. Couple of point of order. Firstly my memory of the tunnel rotunda was not a Dome of Discovery (although there was a Dome of Discovery at the Festival of Britain in 1951), rather it was a restaurant run by Nardini's in Largs. I can vouch for the excellent ice cream! Talking of food, next to where the trams were kept when not in service was another Restaurant - called the Four Winds Restaurant. A wee story. One evening a pal and I were visiting the festival. We went into the Four Winds for a meal. On the other side of a dividing barrier between the tables were seated what turned out to be a quite elderly lady and her daughter. the mother was in a wheelchair. We made desultory conversation over the barrier. It was time for the ladies to leave. Out of the blue the daughter said, "This is not a miracle" has her mother stood up and walked about! The lady was not wheelchair bound at all, however wheelchairs were available not only to permanent users, but also for those who felt that a day walking about the festival might be just that wee bit too tiring!
    Talking of Exhibitions, The Glasgow School of Art, Digital Design Studio recreated the Exhibition. her is an example of their work:
    ruclips.net/video/UJgYWcmCd6U/видео.html
    I had a tiny (literally) involvement in this Having research the International Exhibitions in Glasgow in 1888, 1901, 1911 (all in Kelvingrove Park) and the Empire Exhibition in Bellahouston Park. Four more potential videos, perhaps?? Also, the was an industrial exhibition in in the east end of the City in the early 1880's, but this is getting to the boring stage - sorry. Well done again for the first rate (as usual!) video. Please keep them coming..

  • @randymctavish5308
    @randymctavish5308 Год назад +1

    I remember the big celtic crest made of flowers have a photo as me as a wee boy standing next to it somewhere, great wee video, cheers 👍

  • @catmac2182
    @catmac2182 Год назад +1

    Well Done !!!! 👌👌👌....A lot of work and time has been spent making this....
    Great to see where it all ended up , i was there with my daughter who was 5 at the time, got a few pics 🙂

  • @theworldisyours5831
    @theworldisyours5831 Год назад +1

    Brilliant 👏 👏 👏

  • @bernarddalbeck2199
    @bernarddalbeck2199 Год назад +1

    Just watch this wee video, I’m a Glasgow born and bred man and this brought back so many memories, I worked in the shipyards on the Clyde at Govan for 45 years and can so appreciate what what you have created in this video it so much of the soul of the city.

    • @AstonishingGlasgow
      @AstonishingGlasgow  Год назад

      Thanks for getting in touch and I hope you can check out my other videos as I cover the Clyde and parts of the shipyards in other episodes.

  • @jameslove1363
    @jameslove1363 Год назад +1

    Thoroughly enjoyed your episode on the garden festival, My then girlfriend who became my wife had a flat in Brand Street opposite the garden festival ( now festival park ) we spent many happy day in the festival ,cheers for the memories. Jim

  • @theparnells2485
    @theparnells2485 Год назад +1

    Great video. I still have my Glasgow Garden Festival key ring!

  • @beegnutz
    @beegnutz Год назад +1

    I've still got a few pics from that event. So nostalgic 😁

  • @BigPinkJohn
    @BigPinkJohn Год назад +1

    Thank you so much for this video. Fond memories of visiting the festival with my mum & aunt, both sadly no longer with us, whilst on holiday in Stenhousemuir.

  • @gillmull
    @gillmull Год назад +1

    What a fantastic video, brought back many memories.

  • @MartinFarrell1972
    @MartinFarrell1972 Год назад +1

    I only got to the graden festival once with the school. I was desperate to go back but didn't get the chance. I love doing history walks so may looki into this. Great presentation

  • @TopCatFCD
    @TopCatFCD Год назад +1

    Ah fair few memories there. I was not long time served in the Glasgow Parks and Recreation as a Gardener and well remember some of the work that went into that site. The grass pyramids were a "favourite" amongst the team lol. Thanks :)

  • @anniemacdonald3957
    @anniemacdonald3957 Год назад +1

    Came across this by accident. So interesting and so brilliantly done. Thank you

  • @paulbennie5690
    @paulbennie5690 Год назад +1

    Superb. A great video.

  • @colinriley123
    @colinriley123 Год назад +1

    Just watched this again. Brilliant!

    • @AstonishingGlasgow
      @AstonishingGlasgow  Год назад

      Thank you. Im sitting working on the next episode. I hope to have it ready by the end of this week.

  • @anderson357
    @anderson357 Год назад +1

    Amazing. So much work in this

  • @rgedwards3412
    @rgedwards3412 Год назад +8

    Excellent episode, demonstrating an awesome amount of research. Well done!

  • @lorrainehamilton5051
    @lorrainehamilton5051 Год назад +3

    Thoroughly enjoyed your trip back to the GGF, I was in a choir which sang there one day, sun splitting the trees...brought back Happy Memories! Enjoy a wee Coffee on me!

  • @marcelwiszowaty1751
    @marcelwiszowaty1751 Год назад +8

    Very interesting! As a frequent visitor to Glasgow over recent years, I have walked through this area (and indeed over the Bells Bridge) However I didn't appreciate that this was the site of the Garden Festival until this vid... so thanks. Incidentally I first travelled to the city way back in 1973 with my parents because my dad was working in Irvine. As a keen rail enthusiast, particularly underground systems, I was determined to ride on the Subway which was still in its pre-modernisation days. It absolutely fascinated me... and still does to this day.

  • @rosemcloughlin
    @rosemcloughlin Год назад +1

    Fantastic....I loved the Garden festival.and its a pity the small park was not maintained...my grandsons loved to catch tadpoles in the small stream..it was a lovely area.

  • @MT-cd7cs
    @MT-cd7cs Год назад +1

    Thank you so much for this video and all that’s gone in to producing it. I was at the festival many times at the grand old age of 3/4 and have a raft of photographs in my loft from it - a lot with Mr. Boom performing there.
    It also confirms my memory of the big tap - I have some large photoshoot images of me dancing at and on top of the tap as part of a dance school promotion - one image at the Garden Festival, another in another location which I’ve always thought was the Dobbies (now Calders) Garden Center in Cumbernauld however I subsequently lived in that area of Cumbernauld in the mid 2000s and it wasn’t present so I thought I was mistaken! I was also a frequent visitor to the Calders in Falkirk at that time and didn’t know the buildings origins.
    Brilliant video - thank you for bringing back a lot of memories and filling in a lot of information. Look forward to watching more of these nuggets of info on the greatness of Glasgow now that I’m subscribed 👍

  • @williamanderson9915
    @williamanderson9915 Год назад +1

    Great video. Only thing I remember from then was the rollercoaster, great weather and my crazy fashion from them

    • @AstonishingGlasgow
      @AstonishingGlasgow  Год назад

      It was about that time that Barrs were giving away free tshirts if you collected the tokens so my fashion statement was the festival tshirt or one of the three Irn Bru shirts. 10 year olds these days are walking about in horrible looking tshirts with designer names on them so I think we win. Better times.

    • @williamanderson9915
      @williamanderson9915 Год назад

      @@AstonishingGlasgow ah my jeans with daft patches on them disagree haha. Thought I was so cool at the time 😂

  • @juliemoran7382
    @juliemoran7382 Год назад +1

    Wow! That really was epic! Brilliant as ever:-). Missed your call for photos. I'm sure my parents have some, will have a look when I'm next back. There's defo pics of my younger sister doing some judo demonstrations there!

  • @HC_GUITAR
    @HC_GUITAR Год назад +2

    I was in a team of yts Landscapers who built a lot of the raised flower beds and flower display's at the festival. Great memories of that long hot summer. Really enjoyed this!

  • @TW-vb9vr
    @TW-vb9vr Год назад +1

    Great video, some effort. Visited with school in p2 and with family.

  • @livingston7025
    @livingston7025 Год назад +1

    Thankyou I love learning more about my hometown 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  • @vallamb9499
    @vallamb9499 Год назад +1

    This was a fab video, thank you. If you do get round to doing anymore on the garden festival you can find the giant iris sculptures on a roundabout in Glenrothes in Fife.

  • @noisyshaun
    @noisyshaun Год назад +3

    Your dedication and effort here is immense pal. Thanks to you for reminding me of memories I had a vague recollection of from my childhood, and thanks to the algorithm for randomly suggesting this to me! When I visited the garden festival as a wee boy I stood for a photo in front of a stable and the horse reached down ate my hat. My uncle has a series of three photos of it happening 😂

  • @patriot2yt
    @patriot2yt Год назад +2

    Brilliant video this should be showing on the BBC Scotland TV channel.

  • @LynieT
    @LynieT Год назад +1

    Brilliant video - thank you! Great memories 😊

  • @falken_gt4
    @falken_gt4 Год назад +1

    The rollercoaster was the first one I went on, remember when it went in reverse coming out of my seat and being a skinny 12 year old I thought I would fall out past the bars 😅

  • @JimL1029
    @JimL1029 Год назад +5

    Loved this one. I've been gone from Glasgow a long time, and have wondered what the Garden Festival was like, especially since it was in my old backyard. Enjoy your videos.

  • @PeteyPeteee
    @PeteyPeteee Год назад +5

    Nice! I have great memories of going to the festival with the school. My neighbour still has a garden festival tote bag in the window of their outhouse. Its clearly been there over 30 years 😅

  • @kildogery
    @kildogery Год назад +2

    This is brilliant.
    I definitely remember the big tap and Wullies bucket.
    My main memory is greetin' because I was too wee for the roller coaster.

    • @AstonishingGlasgow
      @AstonishingGlasgow  Год назад +1

      I stood in line for the roller coaster twice and both times it got stuck and closed before I got to the front so I never got to ride it either. Maybe I should go to Pleasurewood hills and have a shot on it now?

  • @eddyquigley2350
    @eddyquigley2350 Год назад +1

    Thanks for putting this up you've taken me back to a time I fondly remember I would have been 7 .👍

  • @BillyBobDingo1971
    @BillyBobDingo1971 Год назад +1

    Cheers dude. Cool video.

  • @stuartmays
    @stuartmays Год назад +1

    Thanks for this mate,I was there aged 16 with my parents,now both passed,and vaguley remember most of it,I went for a helicopter ride with Captain George,which was amazing and remember a ride on the Coca Cola roller coaster and thats about it. Cheers mate.

  • @ruthmclennan1914
    @ruthmclennan1914 Год назад +2

    Thanks for this excellent video. It brings back pleasant memories

  • @lesleycarroll8125
    @lesleycarroll8125 Год назад +1

    Loved it brought back so many memories 😃

  • @rebenaq4506
    @rebenaq4506 Год назад +1

    Love the before , during and after of a lot of the structures. Amazing video. ❤ Fork and Trowel 😅😅😅😅😅😅

  • @colinriley123
    @colinriley123 Год назад +1

    Wonderful Video and a personal one. Thank you for sharing it all. I love the tribute to the "Two Ronnies" and their "fork handles" or "four candles".

  • @tonycassidy4112
    @tonycassidy4112 Год назад +1

    wow ! that was excellent, David, thanks very much ... i went on that rollercoaster about 50 times, great memories, cracking video, except for yer jokes 🤣😆

    • @AstonishingGlasgow
      @AstonishingGlasgow  Год назад

      Oi, whats wrong with those jokes? They came straight out of the Les Dennis joke book 1989......... Wait! I see it now.

    • @tonycassidy4112
      @tonycassidy4112 Год назад

      @@AstonishingGlasgow 😁😁😁👍

  • @cameronmccaskell5024
    @cameronmccaskell5024 Год назад +1

    Thanks for this, brought back some great memories of the festival. I volunteered then worked for the Red Cross in the welfare office (wheelchair loan). Loved the big guy on stilts (Hamish?) and the big pram that you showed one of the photies of.

  • @nobordersnoflags9905
    @nobordersnoflags9905 Год назад +2

    Fantastic video. A lot of work must have gone into this one.

  • @angelatunstall9418
    @angelatunstall9418 Год назад +1

    Thanks for this, brings back great memories for me. I was 18 at the time and worked at the Glasgow Garden Festival for the Nardina's from Largs. I worked in one of the rotunda's as a waitress and sometimes I would get to serve the ice cream outside. I also remember riding the roller-coaster on my breaks as I got on free with my pass. It was a amazing project to be part off.

  • @dovesfan1
    @dovesfan1 Год назад +1

    Scottish expat living in South East Asia. I was only 9 when I went to the festival but can remember bits and pieces. Thanks for your effort in making the video. Really enjoyed it. Annoyed you mentioned caramel short cake though. Now I have a craving I can't satisfy!!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  • @CB394
    @CB394 Месяц назад +1

    I went to the Garden Festival 3 times, because we moved from Glasgow to Dalry, North Ayrshire in July of 1988. The first time I went was with my parents, the second time was with St Columnkille's primary and the 3rd was with my new school, St Palladius Primary. I turned 6 in the midst of it all.

  • @TheFrogfather1
    @TheFrogfather1 Год назад +1

    Great video. I wasn't living in Glasgow then (moved over in 1989) but visited from Shields Road station. There was a wooden strip painted red about knee height that you followed round to the wee train that took you to the entrance. I'd forgotten the tap, but remembered the teapot and kettle!

  • @maryrobins2016
    @maryrobins2016 Год назад +4

    Great research and a fascinating episode. Like you my family had season tickets and visited at least weekly often meeting friends and family on the site. It helped that the weather was mainly good that summer. Before one visit my daughter found a frog in the garden which was carried to the festival in a margarine carton and released on the Scottish Wildlife Trust's wild garden with pond where it lived happily. We were on holiday in Bute when listening to a radio programme from the Garden Festival the frog got an honourable mention!

  • @juliusseizer514
    @juliusseizer514 Год назад +1

    An absolutely brilliant video, thank you for all your work on this. A nice trip down memory lane.

  • @pampam112
    @pampam112 Год назад +1

    Love this. I worked there at Nardinis in the Rotunda & then up in the High Street. Amazing vibe. Best job ever for a 15 year old 😁

  • @dougc5880
    @dougc5880 Год назад +2

    Brilliant video! I don’t remember a lot about it, but I did recognize many of the exhibits. My main memory,apart from the fabulous weather, was a big guy on stilts pushing a wean around in a huge pram! Fabulous memories. Thank you so much. 🙏🏻

  • @Delboy219
    @Delboy219 Год назад +1

    Lucky man getting a season ticket! I love my family to bits but they never bothered taking me. My one visit was with my school and i had the time of my life that day.

  • @goatsdontshave1840
    @goatsdontshave1840 Год назад +1

    Fantastic video. Appreciate the work you must have put into it.

  • @Diana-007
    @Diana-007 Год назад +2

    Great video thank you, brings back lots of lovely memories including oor Wullie’s pail! it’s a little sad that more of the garden festival wasn’t maintained even as a destination in its own right - I remember many people voicing the same at the time. Your absolutely right I’m sure it laid the foundation for all the big events that came to and are still coming to Glasgow to date.

  • @riggy42
    @riggy42 Год назад +2

    Being a fifer we have the huge Iris sculpture from the festival sitting next to a roundabout in Glenrothes .

  • @SimonWallwork
    @SimonWallwork Год назад +1

    Wonderful. I couldn't be arsed going.

  • @ianstrachan7668
    @ianstrachan7668 Год назад +1

    Fascinating...thank you so much 😊

  • @PaulEcosse
    @PaulEcosse Год назад +2

    I remember it well. I was 13 and visited 3 or 4 times. I went to the one in Liverpool which I think was a few years earlier so was buzzing when it came to Glasgow.

  • @TheDriftdog
    @TheDriftdog Год назад +1

    Fantastic video! I too was 11 years old when visiting the Glasgow Garden Festival. We went so many time and I finally went on the Coca Cola rollercoaster on the very last day, talked into it by my dad & sister both stating I’d never get another chance. My parents still have a rouges gallery up in their hall of some of their photographs from then. I have no recollection of the Motherwell tree yet pass it frequently as I live near Motherwell now, I will look at it differently now. My son is fascinated by The Vulcan so he enjoyed seeing that part of your film. I think I will now have to visit all the places you mentioned that have remnants of the festival before it’s too late! Thanks for sharing such great memories!!

    • @AstonishingGlasgow
      @AstonishingGlasgow  Год назад

      If I am honest, I was sent the old picture of the Motherwell tree and struggled to recognise it myself. In the old picture you can see the Sky Park behind it which gives a rough idea of where it once stood on the festival site.

  • @solobrouk
    @solobrouk Год назад +2

    Great video . Came across this as was recently at the location trying to re-visit my youth when we attended the festival. Seemingly the floating head is still in storage at a scrapyard just up the Clyde a bit from the former sight . Would love to get in for a nosey 🤣

    • @AstonishingGlasgow
      @AstonishingGlasgow  Год назад +1

      The head was refloated and spent a bit of time in the canting basin where it was during the festival. I believe it is now in storage at Rothesay dock further down the Clyde but I didnt get a chance to try and get access. Maybe for part 2.

  • @jonscotlad
    @jonscotlad Год назад +2

    Cracking video mate, brings back happy childhood memories even though I still remember thinking 'the f*** do I want to go to a GARDEN festival for' at the time!!

  • @HGVdiscoDave
    @HGVdiscoDave Год назад +1

    nice video , I was 6 when this was on so remember very little of it so nice to see some of it here and that I see minders of it almost every day in Cumbernauld