A handful of the sculptures produced for the festival are still on public display in Stoke-on-Trent.

In 1986, Stoke-on-Trent's National Garden Festival opened with big aims to revitalise the city.

Dave Scragg says restoring a 140-year-old locomotive used for short journeys at the festival could cost about £150,000 Visitors had the choice of air, land and water for getting around the National ...

Dhruva Mistry's first large scale bronze sculpture, titled Her Head, was one of the artworks commissioned for the National Garden Festival There were "probably too many" sculptures at the National ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stoke-on-Trent looked lost. By the middle of the 1980s, after nearly two decades of industrial decline, the city was searching for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dhruva Mistry's first large scale bronze sculpture, titled Her Head, was one of the artworks commissioned for the National Garden ...