National Garden Festival Gateshead 1990

A general overview of the highly successful Garden Festival held in Gateshead in northeast England in 1990. Also shows the monorail, trams, steam trains and road trains. Original shot on video8.

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Travel & Events

Tags:

• Gateshead
• NGF
• NGF90
• national
• garden
• festival

[BillyfromConsett]

The best piece of documentary I've had the pleasure to see about the Gateshead Garden Festival.

Excellent work.

[trev68e]

Wow! Thanks for the kind comments. Wish I'd had a digital camcorder then (I don't think they had been invented yet!)

[gary72carol61]

Great video, I have been working Gateshead as a Taxi Driver now for the last 7 years, and before that I was working on local council for 5 years. So this takes me back to 1998, I have heard lots about Gateshead Festival but sadly I never lived here then. This is the 1st time I have seen anything in video and now I know what it looked like. I would have enjoyed that, it looked great. Ah well thanks for the video.

[citytransportinfo]

Hi there,

re: your comment about people not having camcorders and filming the Gateshead Garden Festival, I did that and have uplifted the first of several films based on the transports used there.

Regards

Simon

[pobhockle]

Excellent video, it's amazing to think anyone had a camcorder back in 1990. Trev (or anyone), do you by chance happen to have any footage or photos of the St. Cuthbert's Village area just up the road?

[geordielass84]

I went to the garden festival on a school trip. I was only 6 but i still remember it! Great video, helped bring back even more memories of it :) Can't believe it was 20 years ago.....god i feel old!

[DavidRalph1984]

I think Eslington is the only part of the festival site that is still parkland. Mainly football pitches. I'd love to walk around it and see what used to be there.

[citytransportinfo]

Excellent - the only shame is that more people have not seen it.

Simon

[DAVIDUK2381]

Such a shame when you look at the area now. The area in my view would have been a great park - which incidentally came fully landscaped after the festival finished. It was left to rot for years after. Instead the developers/planning officials couldnt resist the 'luxury flat' fetish that has been going around for the last 10 years. What a shame the land wasnt saved.

[sunderlandgent]

I loved working at the N.G.F. Almost 20 years ago but seems just like yesterday.

[trev68e]

Thanks for the comment 4 days ago (just got round to checking the inbox today). What a difference a bit of planning, editing, (and tripod), makes. Unfortunately I tend not to use one so much these days, 19 years later!

[trev68e]

Thanks - you would think lots of people had shot video there, but I've only ever seen one other.