Castlebank Street, Partick, was a bleak place in 1963 as this family took the dog for a walk. The spire of Glasgow University provides a landmark in the background but much of the area has changed in the intervening years
EIGHTEEN Glasgow school-children charged to a new pastime in April 1988, gardening tools in hand.
They were among 200 pupils from Cleveden Secondary who were enjoying lessons giving them basic green-finger skills for their part in the Glasgow Garden Festival.
Along with 16 pupils from a Nuremberg school, they were set to dig in at a Bavarian garden created for the extravaganza. This first group of children are pictured after some training at Langside College department of horticulture at Buchanan Drive, in Rutherglen. And no one could doubt the enthusiasm with which they were tackling their task.
The Bavarian garden was to be open throughout the festival which ran from April until September that year.
Pupils were to tend to their garden each day during the festival to make sure it was immaculate for the more than four million visitors who attended the event.
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