1951 FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN CROWN IN ITS ORIGINAL BOX - Stunning condition and worth so much more with it's box. Coins for Collectors and The Great British Coin Hunt.

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Typography at the Festival of Britain". Wharferj.wordpress.com. 8 June 2011 . Retrieved 13 December 2011. In terms of rare crown coins, there are a lot of examples, so we’ll take you through a few of them and how much they’re worth. 1935 Jubilee Crown – Raised Edge Proof Error/Gold Versions

The Festival of Britain emblem – the Festival Star – designed by Abram Games, from the cover of the South Bank Exhibition Guide, 1951 Scottish Committee of the Arts Council of Great Britain (1952), New Scots Poetry, Serif Books, Edinburgh 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 BellanThe 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 They are part of the predecimal and withdrawn Pound Sterling coins series.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 They were withdrawn from circulation in 1951. After the Union of England and Scotland in 1707 a new coin, the British Crown, replaced the English Crown and Scottish Dollar. The value was set at 5 shillings and the size was 38mm in diameter and weighed about 1oz as before. Several images of the South Bank Exhibition can be found on the internet, including many released by The National Archives on the 60th anniversary of the festival. [87] A Festival Council to advise the government was set up under General Lord Ismay. [8] Responsibility for organisation devolved upon the Lord President of the Council, Herbert Morrison, the deputy leader of the Labour Party, who had been London County Council leader. He appointed a Great Exhibition Centenary Committee, consisting of civil servants, who were to define the framework of the Festival and to liaise between government departments and the festival organisation. In March 1948, a Festival Headquarters was set up, which was to be the nucleus of the Festival of Britain Office, a government department with its own budget. [9] Festival projects in Northern Ireland were undertaken by the government of Northern Ireland. [12] 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.

Scott-Moncrieff, George (1951), Living Traditions of Scotland, His Majesty's Stationery Office for The Council of Industrial Design Scottish Committee

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The Country. ( Architect: Brian O'Rorke. Theme Conveners: A. S. Thomas, Peter B. Collins. Display Designer: F. H. K. Henrion.) The Festival Pleasure Gardens were created to present a lighter side of the Festival of Britain. They were erected in Battersea Park, a few miles from the South Bank Exhibition. Attractions included: a b "The Festival of Britain, 1951', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851–1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011". Sculpture.gla.ac.uk. 31 December 1949 . Retrieved 13 December 2011. Gold investment products are VAT free. Silver investment products are inclusive of VAT at the current rate unless otherwise stated.

The Natural Scene ( Architect: Brian O'Rorke. Theme Convener: Kenneth Chapman. Display Designer: F. H. K. Henrion)

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The re-design of Parliament Square by George Grey Wornum in preparation for the Festival of Britain year [65]