Festival Of Britain

The Festival Of Britain was a national exhibition which opened in London and around Britain in May 1951. It was a festival that celebrated the nation's recovery after the second World War. The main exhibition site was on the South Bank Site in london on 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 traveling exhibitions that toured Britain by land and sea. Outside London major festivals took place in Cardiff,  Stratford-Upon-Avon, Bath, Perth, Bournemouth, York, Aldeburgh, Iverness, Cheltenham, Oxford and other centres. Most of London was still in ruins and redevelopment was badly needed. The festival was to give better quality design when re-building British towns and cities. It was also aimed to raise nation's spirits whilst promoting British art.