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Southbank Centre · London

Southbank Centre: The Festival That Never Ended

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Southbank Centre: The Festival That Never Ended

📷 Opringle at English Wikipedia / Wikimedia Commons, Public domain

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Built for a single festival in 1951 to prove that postwar Britain was still capable of joy, the Southbank Centre became something nobody planned — the cultural heart of London.

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