Editing Festival of Britain (section)

===Displays===
The arts were displayed in a series of country-wide musical and dramatic performances.<ref name=guide/> Achievements in architecture were presented in a new neighbourhood, the Lansbury Estate, planned, built and occupied in the Poplar district of London.

The Festival's centrepiece<ref name=guide/> was the South Bank Exhibition, in the [[Waterloo, London|Waterloo]] area of London, which demonstrated the contribution made by British advances in science, technology and industrial design, displayed, in their practical and applied form, against a background representing the living, working world of the day.<ref name=guide/>

There were other displays elsewhere, each intended to be complete in itself, yet each part of the one single conception.<ref name=guide/> Festival Pleasure Gardens were set up in Battersea, about three miles up river from the South Bank. Heavy engineering was the subject of an Exhibition of Industrial Power in Glasgow. Certain aspects of science, which did not fall within the terms of reference of the South Bank Exhibition, were displayed in South Kensington. Linen technology and science in agriculture were exhibited in "Farm and Factory" in Belfast. A smaller exhibition of the South Bank story was put on in the Festival ship ''[[HMS Campania (D48)|Campania]]'',<ref name="Britain 1951"/> which toured the coast of Britain throughout the summer of 1951, and on land there was a travelling exhibition of industrial design.<ref name=guide/>

[[File:Minehead 2018 - London Transport RF13 (LUC213).JPG|thumb|London Transport RF13 (LUC213)]]London Transport ordered its first batch of 25 post-war [[AEC Regal IV|RF]] single deck buses fitted with roof lights to provide a fleet of sight-seeing coaches for the festival.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bowker |first1=David |title=Our Buses |date=2021 |publisher=London Bus Museum |location=Brooklands |page=30}}</ref>

The [[University of Brighton Design Archives]] have digitised many of the [http://vads.ac.uk/results.php?&cmd=search&page=1&mode=boolean&words=dcafb&idSearch=boolean&ordered=title&ordered=image_up,key1 Design Council's files] relating to the planning of the festival.