Sea and Ships pavilion at the Festival of Britain 1951 London History Barges are moored on the

Barges are moored on the river

The image is taken from a series of 37 photographs published in the book

This is one of a collection of images commissioned by the Society for Photographing Relics of Old London to record historic buildings that were being threatened with demolition

Supporters of 'enosis' or the union of Cyprus with Greece

Sea and Ships pavilion at the Festival of Britain 1951 London History Barges are moored on theThe Sea and Ships Pavilion at the Festival of Britain was situated alongside the river near Hungerford Bridge. Wolfgang Suschitzky photographed the visitors teeming through the nets of the fishing display in this Pavilion. The souvenir stall in the centre of the picture would have sold an array of commemorative products, from books to ceramics to replicas of the festival's structural highlight the Skylon.