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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Certain aspects of science, which did not fall within the terms of reference of the South Bank Exhibition, were displayed in South Kensington. The Festival became a "beacon for change" that proved immensely popular with thousands of elite visitors and millions of popular ones. The Festival of Britain, which took place in 1951, was a government-backed Festival that coincided with the centenary of the Great Exhibition in 1951. 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.

These included the Royal Festival Hall - a new 2,900 seater concert hall; the Dome of Discovery – the largest dome in the world at the time at 365ft in diameter which housed exhibitions on the theme of discovery such as Polar regions, the New World, the sea, the sky and outer space - and the Skylon – an iconic, futuristic vertical cigar-shaped tower held in place by tension cables which gave the impression it was floating in mid-air. If you happen to stumble across one, it could be worth a fortune if you are lucky enough to find a matte or frosted version – although the odds are incredibly small!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". The University of Brighton Design Archives have digitised many of the Design Council's files relating to the planning of the festival. Labour cabinet member Herbert Morrison was the prime mover; in 1947 he started with the original plan to celebrate the centennial of the Great Exhibition of 1851. It was designed by Hidalgo Moya, Philip Powell and Felix Samuely, and fabricated by Painter Brothers of Hereford, England, between Westminster Bridge and Hungerford Bridge.

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. Old Victorian buildings and railway sidings which had been left untouched since being bombed in the war were transformed into the South Bank site, a new public space which was intended to showcase the principles of design that would feature in the post-war rebuilding of London and the creation of new towns. The 1951 Festival of Britain: A Living Legacy (Department of History of Art and Design, Manchester Metropolitan University, 1996).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. Associated with the Festival of Britain Office were the Arts Council of Great Britain, the Council of Industrial Design, the British Film Institute and the National Book League. In April 1988 it was designated a Grade I listed building, the first post-war building to become thus protected. In making the Festival the Herbivores "earned the contempt of the Carnivores – the readers of the Daily Express; the Evelyn Waughs; the cast of the Directory of Directors". The architects' design was made possible by the engineer Felix Samuely who, at the time, was a lecturer at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in Bedford Square, Bloomsbury.

Barry selected the next rank, giving preference to young architects and designers who had collaborated on exhibitions for the wartime Ministry of Information. These are not regarded as faulty or damaged goods as their precious metal content and value as a bullion coin is not affected.a b c d "Sarah Easen, Film and the Festival of Britain 1951, British Universities and Video Council". 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. His wife became knows as " Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother" and lived until30th March 2002 when she was 101.