Editing Festival of Britain (section)

==Other festival events==
[[File:fobstamps.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Postage stamps commemorating the Festival of Britain, with the Festival Star on the 4d issue]]
There were hundreds of events associated with the Festival,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/archive/exhibits/festival/list_objects.asp?ob=&ob_s=any&pr=&pr_s=any&de=&de_s=any&num=10&firstob=141&sortby=1 |title=The Museum of London |publisher=The Museum of London |access-date=13 December 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130730095302/http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/archive/exhibits/festival/list_objects.asp?ob=&ob_s=any&pr=&pr_s=any&de=&de_s=any&num=10&firstob=141&sortby=1 |archive-date=30 July 2013 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> some of which were:
*The selection of [[Trowell]], a [[Nottinghamshire]] village in the middle of England, as the Festival Village<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13168016 |title=BBC News – 'Festival village' Trowell marks 60th anniversary |publisher=BBC  |date=22 April 2011 |access-date=13 December 2011}}</ref>
*The re-design of [[Parliament Square]] by [[George Grey Wornum]] in preparation for the Festival of Britain year<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.londongardensonline.org.uk/gardens-online-record.asp?ID=WST078 |title=London Garden Online |publisher=Londongardensonline.org.uk |date=29 August 2007 |access-date=13 December 2011}}</ref>
*Commemorative postage stamps and many souvenirs, official<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/archive/exhibits/festival/list_details.asp?key=111113&rtn=ob%3D%26ob_s%3Dany%26pr%3D%26pr_s%3Dany%26de%3D%26de_s%3Dany%26num%3D10%26firstob%3D21%26sortby%3D1 |title=The Festival of Britain |publisher=Museum of London |date=31 August 2001 |access-date=13 December 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130730113256/http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/archive/exhibits/festival/list_details.asp?key=111113&rtn=ob%3D%26ob_s%3Dany%26pr%3D%26pr_s%3Dany%26de%3D%26de_s%3Dany%26num%3D10%26firstob%3D21%26sortby%3D1 |archive-date=30 July 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and unofficial<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oldcopper.org/Festival%20of%20Britain.htm |title=Festival of Britain |publisher=Oldcopper.org |access-date=13 December 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111205141216/http://www.oldcopper.org/Festival%20of%20Britain.htm |archive-date=5 December 2011 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
*A commemorative [[Crown (British coin)|crown]] coin (presented with a certificate in either a red or green presentation box),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://24carat.co.uk/frame.php?url=crownsstoryframe.html |title=Crown Story |publisher=24carat.co.uk |access-date=13 December 2011}}</ref> The crown coin featured on its reverse the [[St. George]] and the Dragon design by [[Benedetto Pistrucci]], best known for its place on British Sovereign coins. The certificate states "The first English Silver Crown piece was minted in 1551. Four hundred years later, on the occasion of the Festival of Britain, the Royal Mint has issued a Crown piece, bearing on its edge the Latin inscription MDCCCLI CIVIUM INDUSTRIA FLORET CIVITAS MCMLI-1951 ''By the industry of its people the State flourishes'' 1951".  A non-circulating cupronickel coin, about 2 million were minted, most in "prooflike" condition.  It remains very inexpensive<ref>[https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces10641.html 5 Shillings - George VI Festival of Britain]</ref>
*The restoration of [[Moot Hall, Elstow]] by Bedfordshire County Council<ref>{{cite web|url=https://moothall.weebly.com/uploads/2/2/0/1/22015178/moothistory_pdf.pdf  |title=Elstow and Moot Hall: A Brief History|publisher=Pilgrim Publishing|year=2014|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190125183158/https://moothall.weebly.com/uploads/2/2/0/1/22015178/moothistory_pdf.pdf   |archive-date=25 January 2019 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
*The first performance of [[Robert McLellan]]'s play ''Mary Stewart'' at the [[Glasgow Citizens Theatre]]<ref>Ian Campbell and Ronald Jack (eds), ''Jamie the Saxt'', London, Calder and Boyars, 1970, p.154.</ref>
*The first performance of [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]]'s opera ''[[The Pilgrim's Progress (opera)|The Pilgrim's Progress]]'' on 26 April 1951, at the [[Royal Opera House]]<ref>{{Cite web|date=1999-04-02|title=Leonard Hancock obituary|url=http://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/apr/02/guardianobituaries|access-date=2021-12-29|website=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref>
*An exhibition about [[Sherlock Holmes]] (part of which is now owned by Westminster Libraries<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.westminsteronline.org/holmes1951 |title=Westminster Online |date=22 May 2001 |publisher=Westminster Online |access-date=13 December 2011}}</ref> and part by the Sherlock Holmes pub<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sherlockholmespub.com/history.php |title=The Sherlock Holmes |access-date=2014-06-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140621031531/http://www.sherlockholmespub.com/history.php |archive-date=21 June 2014 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>)
* ''[[The William Shakespeare]]'' and ''[[The Merchant Venturer]]'', two daily excursion trains run by the [[Western Region of British Railways]] from London to sites of British history, [[Stratford upon Avon]] and [[Bristol]].  ''The William Shakespeare'' proved to be financially unviable and only ran for the summer of the festival,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Allen |first1=Cecil J |title=Titled Trains of the Western |date=1974 |publisher=Ian Allan |location=Shepperton |isbn=07110-0513-3 |pages=21–23}}</ref> but ''The Merchant Venturer'' remained in service until 1961<ref>{{cite book |last1=Allen |first1=Cecil J |title=Titled Trains of the Western |date=1974 |publisher=Ian Allan |location=Shepperton |isbn=07110-0513-3 |page=79}}</ref>