The Festival ship Campania, which was officially opened at Hull yesterday by the Lord Mayor (Alderman R. E. Smith) and will receive her first visitors this morning, will be visited during her stay on the Humber by many organised parties of school-children from the West Riding. Yorkshire Post
A notable Leeds survey of British music
In Leeds Town Hall this evening, the Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra begin a Festival contribution of seven concerts devoted to British music. It is important to regard this scheme, and the idea behind it, in a proper light, and not merely as a cap-touching effort dutifully contrived for a special occasion,…
Ready to make festival
A ROSE-COLOURED sky over Leeds yesterday evening raised my hopes of a fine day for the opening of the festival of Britain celebrations in the city. With a wise respect for the vagaries of the English summer, Leeds has delayed the Festival until the eve of Midsummer’s Day. If we…
PARADES & PAGEANTRY TO MARK START OF LEEDS FESTIVAL
When the Princess Royal officially opens the Festival of Britain land travelling exhibition at Woodhouse Moor, Leeds today, she will be inaugurating a comprehensive programme of events in which the city is offering displays and entertainment designed to cater for all tastes. Yorkshire Post
South Bankitis
VISITORS to the South Bank Exhibition, says one from the West Riding, should plan their day and take the affair easily. The authorities (he says) have made the show so breathtaking that many a person leaves leaves the South Bank with bewilderment. Ask 20 per cent of those who go…
Sunday ‘shut down’ hits Festival ship
ALTHOUGH several hundred people went to King George Dock, Hull, yesterday, they were not allowed aboard the Festival ship Campania. The ship’s staff was willing to work – they would have been paid overtime, and they had little else to do because it was raining outside and they were stangers…
LEEDS GETS THE SPIRIT OF FESTIVAL
THE guide to the Leeds Festival of Britain celebrations says that Leeds is a city in which the present over-weighs the past. “It’s vigour,” it declares, “is more noticeable than the intimations of a past age.” Yorkshire Post
Spotters seek 766 prizes in Leeds shops
LEEDS shoppers eagerly scanned shop windows to-day for the 766 prizes offered in connection with Leeds Shopping Festival organised by the Leeds Chamber of Commerce as a contribution to the City’s Festival of Britain Week. First claim for a prize – a Biro pen – was made half an hour…
Y.S.O. Festival of British Music
A Festival of British Music by the Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra began in Leeds Town Hall on Saturday night with the first of seven concerts. The Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress (Lieut.-Colonel F. Eric Tetley and Mrs. Tetley) and many other prominent citizens were in the audience. The chief work was…
Festival prizes in Leeds shops
SCHOOLBOYS in Leeds have discovered a new form of spotting that may prove more profitable than railway engine numbers. The spotting competition organised by the Leeds Chamber of Commerce during the city’s Festival celebrations, has started them scanning shop windows for the 766 prizes. Yorkshire Post