Building workers, Tom Byrne and Michael Farrell, working with pneumatic drills on the site of the South Bank Exhibition, Festival of Britain, 1951.

The Festival of Britain was an attempt to give the post-war period a feeling of recovery and progress and to promote better-quality design in the rebuilding of British towns and cities following the war. The Labour Party's Deputy Leader, Herbert Morrison, described it as "a tonic for the nation".

Title	Festival of Britain, 1951
Maker	Trades Union Congress
Production Date	1951
Format	Photograph
Copyright	National Archives, ref. Work 25/202 (2495)
Holding Institution	TUC Library Collections, London Metropolitan University
Related Objects	Festival of Britain, 1951 South Bank Exhibition - poster, 1951