Guide to the Pleasure Gardens, Festival of Britain, Battersea Park, London: plan with key to attractions including funfair attractions, restaurants, and miniature railway Architect/Designer Gardner, James (1907-1995) Artist/Photographer Fenton, E. W. Country UK: England City London Subject Date 1951 Image Date 1951 View Plan Style Modern Movement Medium Drawing Orientation Landscape Colour Info Black and white Credit RIBA Collections Subject Parks ; Water features ; Fountains ; Restaurants ; Theatres ; Cafeterias ; Rivers ; Exhibitions ; Bars ; Fairs ; Exhibition buildings
NOTES: This plan forms the centrefold (pages 26 and 27) of a Festival of Britain guide booklet. 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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