Glasgow archaeologists dig for lost treasures from 1988 garden festival

The hunt is now on for missing exhibits from the event that helped to transform a post-industrial city

How does an operational railway, an entire rotunda or indeed a three-metre-tall working sculpture of a floating tap manage to go missing? For five months over the spring and summer of 1988, each enjoyed a home on Glasgow's riverside alongside hundreds of other rides, attractions and exhibits, as part of the city's garden festival. But then, in the mists of time, they disappeared.

Now an online project appealing to the public and an archaeological dig, which starts this weekend, will attempt to uncover the whereabouts of these long-lost objects.