Other Festival Events
There were hundreds of events associated with the Festival, some of which were:
- The selection of Trowell, a Nottinghamshire village in the middle of England, as the Festival Village.
- The re-design of Parliament Square by George Grey Wornum in preparation for the Festival of Britain year.
- A commemorative crown coin, commemorative postage stamps and many souvenirs, official and unofficial.
- The first performance of Robert McLellan's play Mary Stewart at the Glasgow Citizens Theatre.
- An exhibition about Sherlock Holmes (part of which is now owned by Westminster Libraries and part by the Sherlock Holmes pub).
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