The Festival of Britain 1951: Map of the South Bank Exhibition, image courtesy of The Twentieth Century Society.

from the archive of Waterloo Festival 2021. Original post appeared here.

Take a walk back in time to the Festival of Britain! Waterloo Festival 2021 celebrated the 70th anniversary of the Festival of Britain and we produced this audio-tour of the South Bank site as it looked in 1951. Your guides are leading Festival of Britain experts Alan Powers and Elain Harwood, of the Twentieth Century Society (C20), accompanied by Nick Rampley, former Vice-Principal at Morley College, and Euchar Gravina, Waterloo Festival’s Artistic Director.

Part of “Festivalcast”, the Waterloo Festival’s podcast project brought to you by Morley Radio. You can access the map and more images (courtesy of The Twentieth Century Society) here.