Festival of Britain, 1951 - drilling pavement

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
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