Images Dated 10th December 2015

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

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John Rylands Library BL15842

John Rylands Library, Deansgate, Manchester. The front of John Rylands Library seen from Deansgate. When John Rylands died in 1888 his wife commissioned architect Basil Champneys to design a library which would house Rylands collection of theological books. The library, designed in the Gothic style, was built between 1890-1899. It later became part of the University of Manchester. Photographed in June or July 1900 by Harry Bedford Lemere

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Festival of Britain BB96_02052

Festival of Britain, South Bank, Lambeth, London. Siegfried Charoux's sculpture The Islanders exhibited on the River Walk at the South Bank Exhibition site during the Festival of Britain. Photographed in June 1951

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