The relief shows the Royal Festival Hall, surrounded by a violin, saxophone, drums, musical score, a transmitting tower and a crown.
W1, Oxford Street, 213
This building was put up in 1951 by architects Ronald Ward and Partners. Ornamental Passions has an excellent report on the building.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Festival of Britain - Arts
'A tonic for the Nation', The Festival was intended to cheer us all up after ...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Festival of Britain - Arts
The relief shows a pair of compasses, globe, hour-glass, rolled document, anc...
The date, 1887, is repeated at least twice more on the building.
This 1940-67 NLS map shows a 'picture theatre (disused)' at number 24 (now flat-fronted post-war shops), and at Cinema Treasures we found...
George Bernard Shaw wrote his play Saint Joan with Thorndike in mind, and this image is very similar to photos of her in the role.
There are two identical bronze panels, the other being at the south-west corner of this bridge structure. There used to be an arm of the ...
The puzzle here is: what does this image depict? The Barbican? And what do the fox and heavenly bodies represent?
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