The Glasgow Garden Festival was the first international event to be held in Glasgow in over 50 years following the Empire Exhibition in 1938 and arguably marked a turning point in the fortunes of the biggest city in Scotland. With substantial investment in the event, the Festival signalled a rebirth of the city from a historically industrial city to a hub of culture with Glasgow being named as the European City of Culture in 1990.
If you visited, you may remember the Coca Cola rollercoaster and the Clydesdale Bank tower. Here we take another look back at he hugely successful Garden Festival, which attracted over 4 million visitors to the city, making the Glasgow event the most popular of the five Garden Festivals held across the UK. Take a look at part one of our look back at the Glasgow Garden Festival here.
5. Glasgow Garden Festival 1988
The most prominent feature of Glasgow Garden festival was the 240ft Clydesdale Bank Anniversary Tower, completed in February 1988. Photo: Allan Milligan
6. Glasgow Garden Festival 1988
Police interview an employee of S Tuck Ltd beside an 8 ft high sculpture of an ox, bound for the Glasgow Garden Festival, April 1988. Photo: Donald Macleod
7. Glasgow Garden Festival 1988
One of the sheep at the Glasgow Garden Festival makes a bid for freedom in May 1988. The sheep leaves a trail through the pottery shed, chased by shepherd John Barrington's collie. Photo: Allan Milligan
8. Glasgow Garden Festival 1988
Ian Lang MP on the back of Maureen, Robert Brothers circus elephant, at the Glasgow Garden Festival site in January 1988. Photo: Allan Milligan