Join Glasgow City Heritage Trust Director Niall Murphy for a tour of some of the highlights from his Moments of Beauty series, exploring the Merchant City and beyond.
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The 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival was a seminal event in the modern history of Glasgow. This temporary event ran for 5 months across a 120 acres site on the south side of the Clyde. But what became of the site after the festival? The After the Garden Festival project is researching the material legacy of the Festival, including where everything from the Festival is now, but also what remains on the Festival site itself. This is being done through a combination of archival research, interviews and archaeological fieldwork. This walk, guided by the project team, will span the whole of the Festival site from Springfield Quay to Pacific Quay. During the walk you will see buildings, artworks, landscape features, plants, and signage that survives from the Festival. You’ll also be able to visit the locations of some of the most notable Festival features such as the Coca Cola Roller Coaster and find out where in the world outside of Glasgow they can now be found. Through a combination of anecdote, archaeological observation and psychogeography, we’ll aim to help you to relive a day out of this world.
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After the Garden Festival is a project that began in 2021 to document the physical legacy of the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival. This includes documentation of the development and dismantlement of the Festival. Data is being gathered by archival research, interviews, archaeological fieldwork and information submitted by members of the public. Kenny Brophy is Senior Lecturer in archaeology as the University of Glasgow. Gordon Barr manages the Scotland grants programme for the Architectural Heritage Fund. Lex Lamb delivers visual communications projects & is former chair of New Glasgow Society.
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Join Glasgow City Heritage Trust Director Niall Murphy for a tour of some of the highlights from his Moments of Beauty series, exploring the Merchant City and beyond.
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Organised by Glasgow Building Preservation Trust, Glasgow Doors Open Days is part of a family of Doors Open Days events taking place across Scotland throughout September, coordinated nationally by the Scottish Civic Trust.
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