I thought id dig this out,found it in a file on my pc, its the garden festival/pleasure island in Liverpool.
splored with Georgie..
HISTORY=
Billed as "a five month pageant of horticultural excellence and spectacular entertainment" it took place on a site that only two years before had been derelict.
The Festival contained more than sixty individual gardens, a Festival Hall, public pavilions and even a miniature railway which toured the site.
It also included a pub, The Britannia and a Pathway of Honour recognising Liverpool stars including Cilla Black, Ken Dodd, and Nerys Hughes.
The Garden Festival was built on a site in the old south docks area by the Dingle. Much of the site was derelict and needed to be cleared of industrial waste before the landscaping for the festival could commence.
Why Liverpool and why 1984?
The Garden Festival was one of the first major projects undertaken by the Merseyside Development Corporation a body set up to in the wake of the Toxteth riots to regenerate Liverpool in the early 1980's.
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