Images Dated 2015 December

Root Bodied Forth BB96_02064

Festival of Britain 1951. Lambeth, London. Mitzi Solomon Cunliffe's sculpture Root Bodied Forth exhibited on the South Bank Exhibition site

© Historic England

Archive, Exhibition, Sculpture

Ballooning CVS01_01_042

Tales of balloon flight. Hand-coloured engraving of two men in a balloon flying over London. This engraving is by William Lionel Wyllie, who made sketches over London from a balloon c.1880-1884 - this one appeared in The Graphic magazine on September 11th 1880. It shows one of the balloons participating in the International Contest between England and France in 1880 that flew from Crystal Palace to Hayling Island. The contest was one of "a serious of simultaneous ascents with the view of endeavouring to ascertain the various currents of air at different heights, as well as other collateral matters of interest." From the Cecil Victor Shadbolt collection of lantern slides dating from 1882-1892

© Historic England

Festival of Britain AA51_06896

Festival of Britain, South Bank, Lambeth, London. An elevated view looking down onto the courtyard of the Regatta Restaurant on the South Bank Exhibition site during the Festival of Britain. The sculpture Stabile with Mobile Elements (Maquette for Cypress') by Lynn Chadwick can be seen in the foreground. Photographed by M W Parry in 1951

© Copyrighted