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Description: | The medal is circular and shows the Festival of Britain emblem, which was designed by Abram Games, with the words 'Festival of Britain' above and '1951' below. The design is repeated on the other side. It is mounted on a blue, white and red striped ribbon with a safety pin for attachment. The Festival of Britain was a national exhibition which opened in London and around Britain in May 1951. The principal exhibition site was on the South Bank Site, London, near to 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". (www.wikipedia.com)
A Metcraft medal made of bronze coloured cardboard, to commemorate the Festival of Britain. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Walsall Museums | Rights holder: | Walsall Museums | Subjects: | Black Country Printing industry Lithography Festival of Britain (1951) | Temporal: | 1951
The 50s (1950-1959) | Source: | Black Country History | Creator: | Walsall Lithographic Company Limited; 1894-2009 | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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