Bristol University Theatre Collection". Bristol.ac.uk. 21 July 2010. Archived from the original on 18 December 2011 . Retrieved 13 December 2011. The Festival was highly popular in every part of Britain. Richard Weight estimates that of the national population of 49 million, about half participated. [77] The Festival largely ignored foreign tourists, with most of the visitors from the Continent being expatriate Britons. [78]

The Riverside Theatre, Festival Pleasure Gardens, Battersea Park, London". Arthurlloyd.co.uk . Retrieved 13 December 2011.

Richardson, R. C. "Cultural Mapping in 1951: The Festival of Britain Regional Guidebooks" Literature & History 24#2 (2015) pp 53–72. The Museum of London". The Museum of London. Archived from the original on 30 July 2013 . Retrieved 13 December 2011.

The idea of holding the Festival became a party political issue. [7] Although Herbert Morrison said that he did not want the Festival to be seen as a political venture, [80] it became associated with the Labour Party, which had won the 1950 general election, and it was opposed by the Conservative Party. [7] Hugh Casson said that, "Churchill, like the rest of the Tory Party, was against the Festival which they (quite rightly) believed was the advanced guard of socialism." [80] Churchill referred to the forthcoming Festival of Britain as "three-dimensional Socialist propaganda." [7] The People of Britain. ( Architect: H. T. Cadbury-Brown. Theme Convener: Jacquetta Hawkes. Display Design: James Gardner.)

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Allen, Cecil J (1974). Titled Trains of the Western. Shepperton: Ian Allan. p.79. ISBN 07110-0513-3. Featherstone, Simon (2009). Featherstone, S., Englishness: Twentieth Century Popular Culture and the Forming of English Identity , 2009, Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9780748623655 . Retrieved 13 December 2011. Rennie, Paul, Festival of Britain 1951 (London: Antique Collectors Club, Ltd., 2007). ISBN 978-1-85149-533-7 ISBN 1851495339 Values in the table above are expressed in GBP. They are based on evaluations by Numista users and sales realized on Internet platforms. They serve as an indication only; they are not intended to be relied upon for buying, selling or exchanging. Numista does not buy or sell coins or banknotes. A wet weather pavilion with a stage facing two ways so that performances could take place in the open air. It had murals designed by the film set designer Ferdinand Bellan

The Wellcome Collection". The Wellcome Collection. Archived from the original on 7 October 2011 . Retrieved 13 December 2011. The Lion and the Unicorn ( Architects: R. D. Russell, Robert Goodden. Theme Conveners: Hubert Phillips and Peter Stucley. Display Designers: Robert Goodden, R. D. Russell and Richard Guyatt. Commentary: Laurie Lee.) [19] Sea and Ships. ( Architects: Basil Spence and Partners. Theme Conveners: C. Hamilton Ellis and Nigel Clayton. Display Designers: James Holland and Basil Spence.) Given the amount of time that has since passed it’s clear to see why the value for one of these coins is fairly high at coin dealers. What Was The 1951 Festival Of Britain?The Festival's centrepiece was in London on the South Bank of the Thames. There were events in Poplar (Architecture – Lansbury Estate), Battersea (the Festival Pleasure Gardens), South Kensington (Science) and Glasgow (Industrial Power). Festival celebrations took place in Cardiff, Stratford-upon-Avon, Bath, Perth, Bournemouth, York, Aldeburgh, Inverness, Cheltenham, Oxford, Norwich, Canterbury and elsewhere, [3] and there were touring exhibitions by land and sea. Treasury Historical Memorandum No.2". Archive.treasury.gov.uk. 8 March 1951. Archived from the original on 25 November 2011 . Retrieved 13 December 2011. University of Brighton Faculty of Arts, Design Archives material at Festival Hall". Arts.brighton.ac.uk. 18 April 2011 . Retrieved 13 December 2011. The Royal Mint issued British Pound coins in 16 different denominations, including this British Five Shillings coin Festival of Britain Crown (1951). They are part of the predecimal and withdrawn Pound Sterling coins series. The Royal Mint started issuing these 0.25 British Pound coins in 1951. They were withdrawn from circulation in 1951. F.M. Leventhal, "'A Tonic to the Nation': The Festival of Britain, 1951." Albion 27#3 (1995): 445-453.

The idea behind it was quite simple. Following World War Two, Britain was still suffering from the years of austerity before, and the Festival of Britain was a great way to boost the morale of the people. Leventhal, F. M. "'A Tonic to the Nation': The Festival of Britain, 1951." Albion 27#3 (1995): 445–453. in JSTOR

a b c d "Sarah Easen, Film and the Festival of Britain 1951, British Universities and Video Council". Bufvc.ac.uk . Retrieved 13 December 2011. Hoon, Will. The 1951 Festival of Britain: A Living Legacy (Department of History of Art and Design, Manchester Metropolitan University, 1996). Eric Nahm (1992). Britain Since 1945: The People's Peace. Oxford University Press. p.111. ISBN 9780191587993. The Guide Book to the Festival described its legacy in these words: "It will leave behind not just a record of what we have thought of ourselves in the year 1951 but, in a fair community founded where once there was a slum, in an avenue of trees or in some work of art, a reminder of what we have done to write this single, adventurous year into our national and local history." [8]