The relief shows a pair of compasses, globe, hour-glass, rolled document, anchor, some cogs and two buildings on the Festival site: the Dome and the Skylon.
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 - Science
'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 - Science
The relief shows the Royal Festival Hall, surrounded by a violin, saxophone, ...
This ornate frieze, titled "The Triumph of Art and Letters", encircles the building. It is 244 metres long, designed by members of the R...
The two be-wreathed babies are on the building on the south-east side of the street, which was the 1914 nurses home; the others on the, p...
Unveiled by Hutton's widow.
Around the top are some delightful reliefs in iron of the badges of early fire insurance companies: Sun, Phoenix, London and Royal Exchan...
Lookup London draws attention to the signature on the side of the boat. It is very different from Kremer's other signatures but our zoome...
Born Dublin, Ireland as Abraham Gottheimer. The King of Italy conferred the title of Baron Grant - for improvement schemes in Milan. He was also MP for Kidderminster. His financial dealings were...
Student at Eltham High School, who co-designed the Buddy Bear statue in Woolwich.
From the picture source website: " founded in 1957 by Duncan Sandys, a British politician, and the former son-in-law of Sir Winston Churchill. It campaigned to make better places for people to live...
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...
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