FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN 1951
Bird's-eye view of the model of the 1951 Exhibition, South Bank, London.
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1. Canopy over Chicheley St.
entrance.
2. Information and Post Office.
3. Restaurant.
4. Entrance from Waterloo Station, Escalator Hall for Underground below.
5. The Land of Britain.
6. The Natural Scene and The
Country.
7. Minerals of the Island.
8. Power and Production.
9. The 51 Bar.
10. Sea and Ships.
11. Dome of Discovery.
12. Transport and Communications.
Restaurant and Entrance from Bailey Bridge.
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14. Vertical Feature.
15. Landing Stage.
16. Administration.
17. The People of Britain.
Work has begun on the Festival of Britain Buildings which will form part of the 1951 architecture exhibition at Poplar, where the London County Council is reconstructing on a bombed area a new neighbourhood to be known as Lansbury.
These exhibition buildings will include:
A Building Research Pavilion.
A Town Planning Pavilion.
A Cafeteria with terrace, to accommodate 2,000 people. An Administrative Block.
A "Crazy House" which will illustrate the defects of
building without Science.
A Vertical Feature-a 200 feet high crane which will
symbolise the modern effort for better building. Reconstruction work in Lansbury is already well ahead. The plan includes new homes for 1500 people, new schools. churches, public houses, shopping centre and market place- a cross-section of all the amenities for a planned modern self- contained neighbourhood which by 1951 will be a living part of London's East End.
The Festival of Britain, to be held from May to September 1951, will be a nationwide demonstration of Britain's leading achievements in the arts, sciences, technology and industrial design. The centre-piece of the Festival will be the Exhibition. on the South Bank of the River Thames.
Because many aspects of our national life and achieve- ment do not lend themselves to Exhibition display-for instance, religion, music drama, literature, sociology-the South Bank Exhibition will be mainly concerned with those
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18. The Lion and the Unicorn.
19. Tea Shop.
20. Television.
21. Telekinema.
22. Locomotive
Buffet below.
Exhibit. Turntable
23. Police and First-Aid.
24. Homes and Gardens.
25. Courtyard.
26. Administration & Staff Canteen.
27. Royal Festival Hall,
28. Seaside.
30. 1851 Centenary Pavilion.
31. Shot Tower.
32. Bridge to Royal Festival Hall.
83. Entrance from Waterloo Bridge.
The New Schools and Design.
34. Shot Tower Buffet.
35. Health.
36. Riverside Cafeteria.
37. Sport.
38. Landing Stage.
contributions of science, technology and industrial desigu which can be illustrated by displays of tangible things and for which Britain's prestige stands highest.
The 1951 Exhibition will break new ground by telling a continuous story throughout its extent, each pavilion providing a chapter in this story.
The South Bank site (approximately 27 acres) bounded by the River Thames, York Road, County Hall and Waterloo Bridge, is very small for such a task by comparison with recent national and international exhibitions. The visitor will find a concise presentation of only the most significant aspects of contemporary British science, technology and industrial design, and will be encouraged to visit other parts of the country where the story may be followed up in detail. For example, the trade enquirer, whether from home or overseas, will be well served by information burcaux in each main section of the Exhibition, and buyers, having seen the range of British manufactured goods in the Exhibition, will be encouraged to make contact with industry itself.
Three supplementary Exhibitions, two in London and one in Glasgow, will deal in more detail with Architecture, Science, and Heavy Engineering respectively, and the amusement section normally associated with any large exhibition will be in Battersea Park. In addition, the two Travelling Exhibitions which will visit provincial centres during the Festival Summer will tell, in different language, the same story as that of the Exhibition on the South Bank, Thus the 1951 Exhibition, while being the centre-piece of the Festival, is not the whole Festival.
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