The Festival of Britain was a national exhibition held throughout the United Kingdom in the summer of 1951. It was organised by the government to give Britons a feeling of recovery in the aftermath of war and to promote the British contribution to science, technology, industrial design, architecture and the arts. The Festival's centrepiece was in London on the South Bank of the Thames. There were events in Poplar (Architecture), 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 and elsewhere, and there were touring exhibitions by land and sea. The Festival became associated with the post-war Labour gov
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| - The Festival of Britain was a national exhibition held throughout the United Kingdom in the summer of 1951. It was organised by the government to give Britons a feeling of recovery in the aftermath of war and to promote the British contribution to science, technology, industrial design, architecture and the arts. The Festival's centrepiece was in London on the South Bank of the Thames. There were events in Poplar (Architecture), 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 and elsewhere, and there were touring exhibitions by land and sea. The Festival became associated with the post-war Labour gov
- The Festival of Britain was a national exhibition which opened in London in May 1951 to boost national morale, as Great Britain was still recovering from World War II. The Seventh Doctor and Ace visited the Festival after defeating the Timewyrm. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus) The Eighth Doctor also visited the Festival and saw his past self, but neither recognised the other. (PROSE: Endgame) The exhibition was still popular in August the same year. (TV: The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith)
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| - The Festival of Britain was a national exhibition held throughout the United Kingdom in the summer of 1951. It was organised by the government to give Britons a feeling of recovery in the aftermath of war and to promote the British contribution to science, technology, industrial design, architecture and the arts. The Festival's centrepiece was in London on the South Bank of the Thames. There were events in Poplar (Architecture), 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 and elsewhere, and there were touring exhibitions by land and sea. The Festival became associated with the post-war Labour government of Clement Attlee, and the South Bank Exhibition was rapidly demolished by the incoming Conservative administration of Winston Churchill.
- The Festival of Britain was a national exhibition which opened in London in May 1951 to boost national morale, as Great Britain was still recovering from World War II. The Seventh Doctor and Ace visited the Festival after defeating the Timewyrm. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus) The Eighth Doctor also visited the Festival and saw his past self, but neither recognised the other. (PROSE: Endgame) The exhibition was still popular in August the same year. (TV: The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith) In an alternate timeline in which Germany won the war, the Festival of Britain was a celebration of ten years of Nazi victory. The Seventh Doctor and Ace visited this version of the Festival, where they realised that history had been altered, and went to work preventing this timeline. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus)
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