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.
9. Glasgow Garden Festival 1988
Dhruva Mistry's huge sculpture of a nude woman ('The Reclining Woman') is spruced up for the Glasgow Garden Festival in March 1988. Photo: Bob Nicholson
10. Glasgow Garden Festival 1988
Five new Tennent's lager models (Karen, Natalie, Fiona, Violet and Linda) at Glasgow Garden Festival, May 1988. Photo: Donald MacLeod
11. Glasgow Garden Festival 1998
Ben Cooper (10) and William Mooney (11) won a prize at the Glasgow Garden Festival for their wind- and water-powered machine. Photo: Allan Milligan
12. Glasgow Garden Festival 1988
Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh takes a ride on the top deck of a 1901 tram during a visit to the Glasgow Garden Festival in April 1988. Photo: Allan Milligan