{"id":351018,"date":"2025-08-17T06:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T06:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/351018\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T06:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T06:26:10","slug":"the-changing-fortunes-of-liverpools-festival-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/351018\/","title":{"rendered":"The changing fortunes of Liverpool&#8217;s Festival Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Opened by Queen Elizabeth II the festival area contained more than 60 individual gardens, a hall, public pavilions and a miniature railway that went around the site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There was even a pub, The Britannia and a walk-of-fame type feature called the Pathway of Honour which recognised Liverpool entertainers including Cilla Black, Ken Dodd, and Nerys Hughes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The festival, which ran from 2 May to 14 October 1984, was meant to have a lasting legacy of a unique riverside parkland &#8220;available for all to share&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opened by Queen Elizabeth II the festival area contained more than 60 individual gardens, a hall, public pavilions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,179,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-351018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115042686539771277","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}