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FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN
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This Exhibition, travelling by land, will visit the following four centres during the Festival Summer:-. City Hall, Deansgate ttttttttttttttttttttttttttt. May 5 – 26. June 23 July 14. Bingley Hall, King Alfred Place ttttttt tttt. Sept 15 Oct. 6. The Façade, which will be the first thing anyone visiting the Exhibition will see, is 120 feet long and 50 feet high and inside its structure will be 21 ex-Naval searchlights, each producing three quarters of a million candlepower. These searchlights will be ...
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FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN
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The original site plan is at the West Yorkshire Archive Service - reference LLD1/2/811890. Exhibition designer Richard Levin's site plan. Created by Themes by bavotasan.com.
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FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN
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Dr Mossadeq. Time magazine. 4 June 1951. Maclean had been due to be interrogated by MI5 on the 28th May 1951. Three days before this, he and Burgess left Maclean’s home in Kent, and drove to Southampton where they took the ferry to St Malo and then trains to Paris and Moscow. It was five years before Krushchev admitted that the two were in Moscow. Burgess and Maclean were recruited to the KGB along with Kim Philby at Cambridge, by Anthony Blunt. Photo courtesy of US Department of Defense. N the day that ...
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FESTIVAL OF COLOUR | FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN
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May 1, 1951 Filed under: Yorkshire Evening Post. THE Inquiring Yorkshireman has made his first tour of the South Bank Exhibition of the Festival of Britain. He found a Bank of Wonderland, crammed with treasure that looked as though someone had broken into the next century and looted it. The kind of thing you see in a Hollywood dream sequence is the kind of thing the Inquiring Yorkshireman saw on South Bank. It has ships and greenhouses and bales of wool; it has an icebound Polar exploration base, complet...
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FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN
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N a letter to the Times published in September 1945, John Gloag of East Sheen called for a Great Exhibition of 1951 to showcase Britain’s industrial art, which could also mark the centenary of the Great Exhibition of 1851. Shortly afterwards, the editor of the News Chronicle, Gerald Barry, made a similar plea to Sir Stafford Cripps, then President of the Board of Trade. Although the centrepiece of the Festival was to be the South Bank Exhibition in London, it was intended that entire country should parti...
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Battersea Pleasure Gardens | FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN
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Letter from Alan Bennett | FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN
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Letter from Alan Bennett. July 10, 1951 Filed under: Yorkshire Post. Sir, – When Mr E. L. Roberts refers to large doses of British music he seems to forget that these eight concerts are but a fraction of the number of concerts throughout the year. Rarely does he have such a large and pleasing pill as this to swallow; yet he prefers his musical indigestion caused by a surfeit of Brahms and Tchaikovsky to a refreshing dose of British music. 8211; Yours etc.,. 92a Otley Road, Leeds, 6.
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THE Y.S.O. HAS BEEN BADLY LET DOWN | FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN
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THE YS.O. HAS BEEN BADLY LET DOWN. July 7, 1951 Filed under: Yorkshire Observer. THE Festival of British Music in Leeds has had a shock. It is a tragedy that audiences are so meagre. The West Riding has insulted present-day British composers and eminent artists. Without a blush, I say the programmes are the finest that have been compiled for the Festival anywhere in Britain. But what does Mr. Maurice Miles, conductor of the Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra get out of them? 8211; or did the B.B.C....The Radio...
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FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN
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June 23, 1951 Filed under:. A notable Leeds survey of British music. In Leeds Town Hall this evening, the Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra begin a Festival contribution of seven concerts devoted to British music. It is important to regard this scheme, and the idea behind it, in a proper light, and not merely as a cap-touching effort dutifully contrived for a special occasion, or as an admirable but misplaced piece of patriotic sentiment called forth by the Festival of Britain. Shall this outstanding Leeds Fe...
