1951 FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN CROWN IN ITS ORIGINAL BOX - Stunning condition and worth so much more with it's box. Coins for Collectors and The Great British Coin Hunt.

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To celebrate the centennial of the Great Exhibition of 1851 it was decided that in 1951 there would be a national exhibition to celebrate the achievements of Great Britain. It was known as the Festival of Britain.

Barbara Hepworth was a sculptor born in Wakefield, West Yorkshire in 1903. She studied at Leeds School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London. Hepworth was commissioned to provide two sculptures for the Festival of Britain: Contrapuntal Forms and Turning Forms. a b ae-pro.com. "Kinross, R., "The Royal Festival hall has regained the thoroughly English lettering of its origins in the Festival of Britain – on one side only", Eye, No.65". Eyemagazine.com . Retrieved 13 December 2011. University of Brighton Faculty of Arts, Design Archives material at Festival Hall". Arts.brighton.ac.uk. 18 April 2011 . Retrieved 13 December 2011. Hoon, Will. The 1951 Festival of Britain: A Living Legacy (Department of History of Art and Design, Manchester Metropolitan University, 1996).English Heritage, PastScape, "The Festival of Britain: 60th anniversary" ". Pastscape.org.uk. 3 May 1951 . Retrieved 13 December 2011. The Living World. ( Theme Convener: Kenneth Chapman. Display Designers: Austin Frazer and Stirling Craig.) An Exhibition of Sixty Large Paintings commissioned for the Festival of Britain" ("60 Paintings for '51"), Suffolk Galleries, organised by the Arts Council, prize awarded to William Gear; [51]

Scottish Committee of the Arts Council of Great Britain (1952), New Scots Poetry, Serif Books, Edinburgh The British Film Institute was asked by Herbert Morrison in 1948 to consider the contribution that film could make to the Festival. [57] It set up a panel including Michael Balcon, Antony Asquith, John Grierson, Harry Watt and Arthur Elston, which became a committee of sponsorship and distribution. Over a dozen sponsored documentary films were made for the Festival, including The arts were displayed in a series of country-wide musical and dramatic performances. [8] Achievements in architecture were presented in a new neighbourhood, the Lansbury Estate, planned, built and occupied in the Poplar district of London. Although the coin was always part of the British coin family, its large size made it unpopular for general circulation and the half-crown was favoured as the de-facto largest coin in circulation. The Crown was more-or-less relegated to a commemorativecoin. The Northern Ireland exhibition was designed by Willy de Majo and showcased the contributions Northern Ireland was making to post-war industrial recovery. Northern Ireland was well known for its shipbuilding and textile industries in particular.Elstow and Moot Hall: A Brief History" (PDF). Pilgrim Publishing. 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 January 2019. The idea of holding the Festival became a party political issue. [7] Although Herbert Morrison said that he did not want the Festival to be seen as a political venture, [80] it became associated with the Labour Party, which had won the 1950 general election, and it was opposed by the Conservative Party. [7] Hugh Casson said that, "Churchill, like the rest of the Tory Party, was against the Festival which they (quite rightly) believed was the advanced guard of socialism." [80] Churchill referred to the forthcoming Festival of Britain as "three-dimensional Socialist propaganda." [7]