Festival Pleasure Gardens under construction, Festival of Britain, Battersea Park, London: perspective view of the site looking towards Battersea Park Station with Battersea Power Station in the distance

RIBA Ref No RIBA31564

Architect/Designer	Gardner, James (1907-1995)
Artist/Photographer	Hoar, Harold Frank (1909-1976)
Country	UK: England
City	London
Subject Date	1951
Image Date	1951
View	Topographical
Medium	Drawing
Library Reference	PA783/6
Orientation	Landscape
Colour Info	Black and white
Credit	RIBA Collections
Subject	Gardens ; Garden buildings ; Fairs ; Exhibition buildings ; Amusement parks ; Parks ; Construction sites ; Power stations ; Exhibitions

NOTES: The Festival Pleasure Gardens were designed as a recreation and entertainment space for the 1951 Festival of Britain, with much of the planting designed by James Gardner. The site featured a new water garden and fountains with popular attractions including a 'Tree-Walk', the Guinness Festival Clock and a pleasure railway known as the Far Tottering and Oyster Creek Branch Railway.

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