The Royal Festival Hall at 75

There are a couple of tickets left for my walk exploring the lost streets and history of the Barbican on Saturday the 16th of May. Click here for details. I am also adding new walks for June. Click here for an overview of all walks. This is the post that should have appeared last Sunday, the 3rd of May, which was the 75th anniversary of the official opening of the Royal Festival Hall on the 3rd of May 1951. Unfortunately, on Friday 1st of May, my web site went down again, coming back online on Sunday afternoon. I wont go into the issues with my current hosting provider (to keep my blood pressure down), but in the next couple of weeks I plan to move to an alternative, and hopefully better performing hosting platform. So on the 75th (and one week) anniversary of the opening ceremony of the Royal Festival Hall, this post looks at the construction and opening of this South Bank icon. If you attended the opening ceremony, then you may have purchased this souvenir programme of the event:…