In 2018 Prime Minister Theresa May announced that the government was planning a Festival of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, to be held in 2022. If your product is not a graded coin and is considered a bullion item, it should be noted that these are bought and sold on low premiums over their precious metal content and not solely for aesthetic purposes; therefore, some products may have edge knocks and/or marks.

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.

Its advocacy of Good Design had grown partly out of the standards of utility furniture created during the war ( Gordon Russell, the Director of the CoID, had been Chairman of the Utility Furniture Design Panel) and partly out of the CoID's Britain Can Make It exhibition of 1946.

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. The official guide to the Festival was written by Ian Cox, the Director of Science for the exhibition. As well as the material legacy, the Festival gave rise to new traditions, in particular the performances of medieval mystery plays in York and Chester. The Festival's centrepiece [8] was the South Bank Exhibition, in the Waterloo area of London, which demonstrated the contribution made by British advances in science, technology and industrial design, displayed, in their practical and applied form, against a background representing the living, working world of the day.Before it even opened, some condemned it as a waste of public money, particularly when so many houses had been destroyed during the war.

A smaller exhibition of the South Bank story was put on in the Festival ship Campania, [3] which toured the coast of Britain throughout the summer of 1951, and on land there was a travelling exhibition of industrial design. In the month following the Festival’s closure a new Conservative government was elected to power and it is generally believed that incoming Prime Minister Churchill considered the Festival a piece of socialist propaganda.As you can tell, the frosted proof and matte versions are incredibly rare and worth thousands of pounds, however, the chances of coming across one of them are slim to none. This image shows people relaxing on the terrace of the Festival's Regatta Restaurant, sitting on 'Antelope' and 'Springbok' chairs designed by Ernest Race. Formed in the reign of Alfred the Great about the year 886, during the period 1279-1812 it was generally referred to as The Tower Mint as it was housed at the Tower of London. 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. The Dome of Discovery, the Exhibition of Science in South Kensington and the travelling Festival Exhibition made extensive use of educational and explanatory film.

As the attractions failed to cover their costs, it was decided to keep them open after the rest of the Festival had closed. His Festival of Britain symbol, known as the 'Festival Star', was used on souvenirs and official publications.Churchill referred to the forthcoming Festival of Britain as "three-dimensional Socialist propaganda. Harlow new town and the rebuilding of Coventry city centre are said to show the influence of the Festival Style "in their light structures, picturesque layout and incorporation of works of art", [32] and Coventry Cathedral (1962), designed by Basil Spence, one of the Festival architects, was dubbed "The Festival of Britain at Prayer". Film [ edit ] Audience wearing special glasses watch a 3D "stereoscopic film" at the Telekinema on the South Bank in London during the Festival of Britain in 1951. Englishness: Twentieth Century Popular Culture and the Forming of English Identity , 2009, Edinburgh University Press. Certain aspects of science, which did not fall within the terms of reference of the South Bank Exhibition, were displayed in South Kensington.