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| Subject: Glasgow Empire Exhibition 1938 | |
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] Date Posted: 22:41:16 01/19/05 Wed The Empire exhibition was an international Expo of its day, with each country of the empire creating their own exhibitions. I managed to dig out some colour photos of the event in 1938, held in Glasgow. As the empire faded, the expo was renamed the Festival of Britain. London has retained the Festival Hall (a barnacle in my opinion) from its hosting of the event in the 50s. I wish Glasgow had kept some of these buildings, especially the tower! I certainly found them interesting. Check out the tacky golden imperial lion.               [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
| [> Subject: Frightening.... | |
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Author: Ed Harris (London) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 00:34:17 01/20/05 Thu It looks like South Bank. Worse still, the brass lion thing looks like the things on the stairs of the art-deco fitness club on Hampstead Way. What it does demonstrate, however, is that the imperial sentiment was far from dead by 1945. Indeed, it is arguable that the War led to a recrudescence of our enthusiasm for the far-flung which was only killed by a combination of the Americans and Europeans in the 1960s. Quomodo sedet sola civitas... [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> Subject: Wow - I'm really impressed how ultra-modern it looks. | |
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Author: Nick (UK) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 22:47:22 01/22/05 Sat Quite at odds with the image of a backward looking Empire cowering in its mock-tudor cricket pavilions before the outbreak of war. Great post. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Nick (UK) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 11:12:33 01/23/05 Sun On a point of history, I think the 1951 Festival of Britain was a deliberate attempt to brighten things up and boost morale during the Post-War austerity period, and nothing to do with the Empire Exhibitions. The first ever international festival was the Great Exhibition of 1851 (hosted at the Crystal Palace in London), and the 'Festival of Britain' was its centenary update. The world Expos grew out of the Great Exhibition and the other international and Empire copycat exhibitions which followed it. If you can dig out any more history on the Empire expos Dave I'd like to use these and any other images to put together a report for the reports page. I think this is something that could really inspire and shock people, to see the British Empire in such a modern and forward-looking guise. A real whiff of what might have been, and what might be. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> Subject: It reminds me of Canberra | |
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Author: Ian (Australia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 12:52:44 01/23/05 Sun The vistas look very much like aspects of my dear national capital (perhaps the first city to be built entirely within a roundabout). The lion does not remind me of Canberra at all, for which I can only be thankful. The tower, on the other hand, looks much more recent than 1938, especially in the 4th photo. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Dave (UK) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 14:38:59 01/23/05 Sun When looking through these photographs, I was puzzled by my sense of familiarity with the Engineering Hall exhibition building. I know that no such building still stands in Bellahouston Park today. However, it transpires that the building was dismantled, and moved to Prestwick Airport - literally 3 miles from my house. It is used today as a BAe Systems factory! More details, with personal accounts are to be found at the following URL: http://clyde-valley.com/glasgow/empire.htm A complete CD with 50 photos can be ordered from: http://www.glasgow1938.com/ A photo and poster of the 1924 event at Wembley can be found here: http://members.fortunecity.com/gbex/empire2.htm [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |