Liverpool Garden Festival Site

[Max]

Was that the dome that used to have Pleasure Island in it?

I also see you found my handprint.

[Kev]

Was that the dome that used to have Pleasure Island in it?

I also see you found my handprint.

Its was Max, remember the Rollerbaldes and The Quazar?

[Paul D]

That place has so much potential I wish they'd give it priority and develop it.

[Louis]

Its was Max, remember the Rollerbaldes and The Quazar?

they were great, i went there a few times

[Max]

Its was Max, remember the Rollerbaldes and The Quazar?

Only just yeah with all the tubes you could go in I think.

[lindylou]

I was really interested in those photos Kev.

It's so sad and depressing to see the state of the place tho' .. I had 3 great days out at the Garden Festival all those years ago.
I remember all the various features so well. I remember all the crowds of people and the queues to get in. There was a great atmosphere.

Who would have dreamed then that the site would end up looking like it does now.

Eerie and depressing.

It would make a fantastic park.

[scouserdave]

I was really interested in those photos Kev.

It's so sad and depressing to see the state of the place tho' .. I had 3 great days out at the Garden Festival all those years ago.
I remember all the various feartures so well. I remember all the crowds of people and the queues to get in. There was a great atmosphere.

Who would have dreamed then that the site would end up looking like it does now.

Eerie and depressing.

It would make a fantastic park.

I feel the same Lindy.

We had a cracking day there with some of our Chinese friends from London. I'm not sure whether they were more impressed with the Garden Festival or the fact that the waiters in China Town spoke Cantonese/Manchurian in a Scouse accent!

Guess who's doing the cuddling in the pic?

[Kev]

The most recent news on the site has stated that developers Langtree has teamed up with housebuilders David McLean to develop large areas of the site for residential and leisure use, with the former gardens restored, 2 weeks ago.

[lindylou]

A few old photos of the Garden Festival:

http://community.webshots.com/user/maidmarion114

[scouserdave]

I feel the same Lindy.

We had a cracking day there with some of our Chinese friends from London. I'm not sure whether they were more impressed with the Garden Festival or the fact that the waiters in China Town spoke Cantonese/Manchurian in a Scouse accent!

Guess who's doing the cuddling in the pic?

While searching for my Rock Against Racism pics (still ain't found them), I found these pics. I'll post a few more after tea. The baby's not ours btw. We had to wait a few more years before ours came along.

[ChrisGeorge]

Good pics everyone! I have not read enough to know whether anything is going to be one at the Garden Festival site for 2008? I sincerely hope so because it looks a bit of an eyesore now, doesn't it.

I was going to post the following in the new creative area. However, because of the close proximity of the area I am talking about to the Garden Festival site I thought it might fit here. Time, summer of 1965.

Sunset Over the River Mersey

In the misty summer distance,
the sun disappears in the hazy
Welsh hills beyond the Wirral:

one of the colour slides I took
as a teenager with my 35 mil
Zenith Russian camera, an orange-

purple sky and the reflection
on the muddy shore of Otterspool,
not exactly exotic but beautiful

despite the black, dun glutinous mud
(soil around Liverpool's black-brown),
maybe a car tire, the twisted wheel

of an old baby pram, just south
from the Beatles' Cazzie Shore.
I painted the same scene in acrylic;

long, slim painting to match the scene,
the layout of my slide, presented the pic
to some friends; never saw it again.

Christopher T. George

[lindylou]

You havn't changed Scouserdave. Just that your hair is longer in those days.

[scouserdave]

You havn't changed Scouserdave. Just that your hair is longer in those days.

Thanks Lindy. Your a star luv!
I'll upload some more in a few minutes. Just wish I concentrated more on taking pics of the buildings, but you don't think about things like that at the time.

[scouserdave]

Last lot folks. Hope you found them of interest. I know I did, as I only found the photos by accident!
BTW, at the time, my mate Tai, in the right of the first pic was Head Waiter of the Jade Garden restaurant, Wardour St. Him and his family have now had their own Chinese restaurant in Munich for the last 20 years. Top man

[A.D.W]

"Behave yourself and act your age young man!", says the old lady.