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.
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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, ...
Phillip Ward-Jackson in his encyclopaedic "Public Sculpture in the City of Lo...
The four bas-relief panels by Edward Bainbridge Copnall depict the heads of G...
