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| Picture No | 10507770 |
| Date | early 1951 |
| Description | Inside the Dome of Discovery, Festival of Britain, London |
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General view inside the Dome of Discovery, part of the Festival of Britain site on the South Bank, London. This part of the exhibition covered Britain's conquest of the physical world through exploration and science. At the time this huge aluminium dome was the largest in the world, with a diameter of 365 feet. It contained several stairs and an escalator, a large telescope, a totem pole, and a model of the stern of Captain Cook's ship, the Endeavour.
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| Source | Illustration by Bryan de Grineau in The Illustrated London News, Festival of Britain supplement, 12 May 1951, pp746-7 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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