1951 FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN CROWN IN ITS ORIGINAL BOX - Stunning condition and worth so much more with it's box. Coins for Collectors and The Great British Coin Hunt.

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Some prominent members of the Labour government considered the Festival to be a Labour undertaking which would contribute to their future electoral success, and Clement Attlee, the Labour Leader, wrote to Morrison saying that an election in autumn 1951 would enable the Labour Party to benefit from its popularity. Then, once it was open, criticism turned to both cost – the entrance to the Dome of Discovery was considered expensive at five shillings – and the artistic taste – some thought parts were too futuristic, too gaudy, too innovative.

The guide included a breakdown of the elements that made up each exhibition, along with a series of maps showing the routes around them. Achievements in architecture were presented in a new neighbourhood, the Lansbury Estate, planned, built and occupied in the Poplar district of London. Although Herbert Morrison said that he did not want the Festival to be seen as a political venture, [80] it became associated with the Labour Party, which had won the 1950 general election, and it was opposed by the Conservative Party. Government grants were made to the Arts Council, the Council of Industrial Design, the British Film Institute and the National Museum of Wales for work undertaken as part of the Festival.The wet winter of 1950–51 delayed work, but the first houses were completed and occupied by February 1951.

The aim of the festival was to promote a feeling of confidence whilst the country recovered from the Second World War. Old Victorian buildings and railway sidings which had been left untouched since being bombed in the war were transformed into the South Bank site, a new public space which was intended to showcase the principles of design that would feature in the post-war rebuilding of London and the creation of new towns. The only existing building to be incorporated into the new site was a tall brick tower, built in the nineteenth century to make lead shot by dropping molten lead from a height. In 2018 Prime Minister Theresa May announced that the government was planning a Festival of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, to be held in 2022.In April 1988 it was designated a Grade I listed building, the first post-war building to become thus protected. A commemorative crown coin (presented with a certificate in either a red or green presentation box), [68] The crown coin featured on its reverse the St.