Studio Brief 2 - The Land Travelling Exhibition - Newspaper Headlines

Press Coverage

Headlines (in Bold)

Shining Red Roof in Leeds Festival 

- structure made from welded steel

- 35,000 square feet

- 120 ft high towered entrance

- shining roof of red plastic sheeting with red, white and blue spotlights

10 Lorries will make 100 journeys with the Festival exhibition for Leeds

- 60 foot long 'Queen Mary' truck

Princess Royal praises and criticises during Festival Tour

- suggested the toy exhibits were moving too fast for the cuddly toys to the be taken in 

- she thought the top bunks were too high in the nursery exhibits

- praised much of the exhibition and asked lots of questions

Leeds Graduate solves a festival hitch

- the exhibition needed someone who could demonstrate knots, ties and splices at the Sea travel section

- they found it hard to find a suitable person with the knowledge

Scoutmaster is exhibition knot tier

- he was the only applicant to the Yorkshire Post advert in which a 'demonstration knotter' was needed

How Leeds Festival looks now

Exhibition in Leeds opens today

Festival Flower garden may stay

- an acre of wasteland was converted into a flower garden and was planned to remain after the festival

Leeds Festival radio link with Italy and Sweden

- Leeds ameteur radio station received 20 postcards since the beginning of the show from other stations across the country and world

Glimpses of the big Leeds Exhibition

5000 'Wonders' on Woodhouse Moor

Travelling exhibition has a more homely appeal

- suggests that it was more attractive to the everyday person in comparison to the main event in London

- London was very futuristic and modern whereas Leeds was understandable to the people

- However the Leeds Exhibition was cramped with the amount of people visiting and how long they took to look at things , when compared with London

- advises to see both exhibitions - people who see only the London exhibition 'may regard the Festival of Britain Exhibition as too much of a scientist’s domain, and excessively expressive of modern art.' However people who miss the London Exhibition will not see the Dome of Discovery

Exhibition Linguist

- Mr Daniel Reardon a head attendant at the Leeds Festival could speak eight languages - was a prisoner of war and then worked for a travel company 

Well Behaved children 

- 23000 children from across Yorkshire visited the exhibition

Household Troops win a victory at Leeds 

- their site next to the fairground is moved closer to the main marquee allowing them to be seen more and increasing inquiries from possible recruits

Festival show moves on

- one minute past 11 on the Saturday the show started being dismantled

- 20 men began the 7000 man hour day and night job of dismantling the show to be sent to Birmingham

- final attendance figures - 144,844 which beat Manchester at 135,736

Flowers, dinner for 100.000th Festival visitor in Leeds

- prearranged plan for the 100.000 person who visits

- be given a bouquet of flowers worth over £3, entrance free with an guided tour by an exhibition official

- behind the scenes at the model theatre and see the festival mannequins

- allowed to send and receive messages at the exhibition radio station, taken by taxi to the city to have a restaurant meal then taken home by taxi

- Presented a souvenir catalogue signed by the Director General of the Festival of Britain

100,000th visitor to Leeds festival

- Mrs E.M. Reeves (66 years old) was told by her doctor to go to the exhibition

- lived only 500  yards from where the exhibition was taking place

Festival site 'not to be wasted'

- tarmac created for the marquee to be built on would be used by the Corporation Parks committee after the event

- could be used as tennis courts

'Get a souvenir for 2051 to show what 1951 was like" - Princess Royal launches festival in Leeds

-The Lord Mayor, introducing the Princess Royal, said the scientific side of our life, of which the Exhibition showed examples, had been achieved by two great wars, from which, in spite of their destructiveness we had learned a great deal for the good of mankind in the future.

-the Lord Mayor, “but it does show an enormous advance during the 100 years since the Exhibition of 1851, and I think we can be justly proud of the achievements that have been made.”

she said, “that if you buy a well-chosen souvenir and keep it safely, it will give your descendants of he year 2051 a chance to see what our workmanship and ideas were like in 1951.

Princess Royal opens Festival in Leeds : 'A Magnificent gesture'

- thousands of people lined the streets five or six deep to see the Princess Royal arrive 

- “This nation-wide event must be seen as a magnificent gesture of fortitude and determination by a people who had put pessimism aside, a people aware of their tremendous past and secure in the knowledge that the dark moments in their history had often been noble ones, and that trials and tribulations, war, poverty, devastation, are powerless to destroy the living spirit of a great nation.” she said.

“Like the air you breathe, the Festival spirit is all around you, and you yourself are part of it,”

"When half the world is forced to live behind a curtain of secrecy, Britain is opening her doors wide to visitors from abroad"

Traffic Jam blocked the view

- Visitors were prevented from seeing the Princess Royal and opening ceremony because of a huge traffic jam 

Nearly 19000 visit Leeds exhibition - Manchester Festival figures beaten 

Spotters seek 766 prizes in Leeds shops 
- all of the 30000 handbooks had a number on the back-cover, if this number matched to an article in one of the 170 participating shop windows the person would win a prize

Big festival programme for Leeds
- there were military displays at the exhibition 
- at Roundhay Park there was athletics,University Rag procreation,parachute jumping,flat and cycle racing, fireworks displays and music.

Y.S.O Festival of British Music 
- The Festival of British Music  by The Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra took place at the town hall

'Tom Jones' at Temple Newsam 
- open air festival production which featured the British Legion players and Hunslet Choral and Operatic Societies