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View of the Canadian Pavilion from Lake, British Empire Exhibition, Wembley, Middlesex England 1924-25 :: -Standard Size Vintage Lithograph Postcard -Condition: EX, -Publisher: Campbell-Gray / Heelway Press Ltd. I ... Read More
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View of the Canadian Pavilion from Lake, British Empire Exhibition, Wembley, Middlesex England 1924-25 :: -Standard Size Vintage Lithograph Postcard
-Condition: EX,
-Publisher: Campbell-Gray / Heelway Press Ltd.
It was opened by King George V on St George´s Day, 23 April 1924. The British Empire contained 58 countries at that time, and only Gambia and Gibraltar did not take part. It cost £12 million and was the largest exhibition ever staged anywhere in the world - it attracted 27 million visitors.[6]
Its official aim was "to stimulate trade, strengthen bonds that bind mother Country to her Sister States and Daughters, to bring into closer contact the one with each other, to enable all who owe allegiance to the British flag to meet on common ground and learn to know each other". Maxwell Ayrton was the architect for the project. The three main buildings were the Palaces of Industry, Engineering and Arts. The Palace of Engineering was the world´s largest reinforced concrete building, a building method that allowed quick construction.
A special railway loop line and station were built, to connect the site to London Marylebone station.[7] The various buildings of the site were linked by several ´light railways´, including the screw-driven ´Never-Stop Railway´.[8][9]
Most of the exhibition halls were intended to be temporary and demolished afterwards, but at least the Palace of Engineering and the British Government Pavilion survived into the 1970s, if only because of the high cost of demolition of the huge concrete structures. The Empire Pool became the Wembley Arena, and at the suggestion of the chair of the exhibition committee, Scotsman Sir James Stevenson, the Empire Stadium was kept; it became Wembley Stadium, the home of Football in England until 2002 when it was demolished to be replaced by a new stadium.
-Condition: EX,
-Publisher: Campbell-Gray / Heelway Press Ltd.
It was opened by King George V on St George´s Day, 23 April 1924. The British Empire contained 58 countries at that time, and only Gambia and Gibraltar did not take part. It cost £12 million and was the largest exhibition ever staged anywhere in the world - it attracted 27 million visitors.[6]
Its official aim was "to stimulate trade, strengthen bonds that bind mother Country to her Sister States and Daughters, to bring into closer contact the one with each other, to enable all who owe allegiance to the British flag to meet on common ground and learn to know each other". Maxwell Ayrton was the architect for the project. The three main buildings were the Palaces of Industry, Engineering and Arts. The Palace of Engineering was the world´s largest reinforced concrete building, a building method that allowed quick construction.
A special railway loop line and station were built, to connect the site to London Marylebone station.[7] The various buildings of the site were linked by several ´light railways´, including the screw-driven ´Never-Stop Railway´.[8][9]
Most of the exhibition halls were intended to be temporary and demolished afterwards, but at least the Palace of Engineering and the British Government Pavilion survived into the 1970s, if only because of the high cost of demolition of the huge concrete structures. The Empire Pool became the Wembley Arena, and at the suggestion of the chair of the exhibition committee, Scotsman Sir James Stevenson, the Empire Stadium was kept; it became Wembley Stadium, the home of Football in England until 2002 when it was demolished to be replaced by a new stadium.
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