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International Garden Festival

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Commemorative coffee mug from the festival, showing a cartoon Liver bird.

The International Garden Festival was a festival held in Liverpool from 2 May 1984 to 14 October 1984. It was the first such Garden Festival held in Britain, and became the model for several others held during the 1980s and early 1990s. The aim was to revitalise tourism and the city of Liverpool which had been in decline, and the idea came from Conservative Environment Minister Michael Heseltine.

The festival

The festival was held on a 950,000 square metre derelict industrial site in the docks near the Dingle. On this site was built a festival hall and 60 individual gardens, attractions such as a Yellow Submarine, Japanese garden and a walk of fame.

The festival was hugely popular, attracting 3,380,000 visitors.

The festival site

The hall, once the focal point of the Garden Festival, lies crumbling.

Since the festival closed, the site passed through the hands of a series of developers. Half of the site was turned into residential housing, while as of 2005 the festival hall and rest of the site remains derelict.

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