1950s in London - Festival of Britain, Harrow and Wealdstone Rail Crash, Great Smog, West Ham United F.C. Season 1959-60, This Is Tomorrow (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 100. Not illustrated. Chapters: Festival of Britain, Harrow and Wealdstone Rail Crash, Great Smog, West Ham United F.c. Season 1959 60, This Is Tomorrow, Lewisham Rail Crash, 1950 World Figure Skating Championships, West Ham United F.c. Season 1958 59, 1958 Notting Hill Race Riots, Skylon, Miss World 1959, Towpath Murders, Miss World 1958, Miss World 1957, Miss World 1956, Barnes Rail Crash, Miss World 1952, Dagenham East Rail Crash, Miss World 1953, Miss World 1954, Stratford Tube Crash, Islington North By-Election, 1958, Twickenham By-Election, 1955, Dome of Discovery, 15th World Science Fiction Convention. Excerpt: The Festival of Britain was a national exhibition which opened in London and around Britain in May 1951. The official opening was on 3 May. The principal exhibition site was on the South Bank Site, London of the River Thames near Waterloo Station. Other exhibitions were held in Poplar, East London (Architecture), Battersea Park (The Festival Gardens), South Kensington (Science) and the Kelvin Hall in Glasgow (Industrial Power) as well as travelling exhibitions that toured Britain by land and sea. Outside London major festivals took place in Cardiff, Stratford-upon-Avon, Bath, Perth, Bournemouth, York, Aldeburgh, Inverness, Cheltenham, Oxford and other centres. At that time, shortly after the end of World War II, much of London was still in ruins and redevelopment was badly needed. The Festival was an attempt to give Britons a feeling of recovery and progress and to promote better-quality design in the rebuilding of British towns and cities following the war. The Festival also celebrated the centenary of the 1851 Great Exhibition. It was the brainchild of Gerald Barry and the Labour Deputy Leader Herbert Morrison who described it as "a tonic for the nation." A view of the Festival of Britain from the north bankConstr...