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 bronze frieze shows a winged Victory holding wreaths and flanked by camels, mules, bullocks, horses, elephants, dogs and pigeons, al...
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...
Number One Poultry, built in 1995 in a post-modern style, and voted by Time Out readers the fifth worst building in London. Designed by t...
The building's listing entry describes this sign, 1934-5 designed by Arthur Szyk: “a metal relief, painted gold and fixed to the wall. Th...
Vauxhall History gives: "Doulton worked closely with the renowned Lambeth School of Art and several well-known artists worked for the fir...
Activist for maternity health and wife of the Prime Minister. Born Lucy Ridsdale in Bayswater but grew up in Rottingdean and was always known as Cissie. Married Stanley Baldwin in 1892 and had 6 ch...
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