Title

Royal Festival Hall, Belvedere Road, South Bank, Lambeth, London, c1954-1962

Caption

Royal Festival Hall, Belvedere Road, South Bank, Lambeth, London, c1954-1962. Interior view showing an orchestra playing to an audience. The Royal Festival Hall was designed by Sir Robert Matthew, Leslie Martin and Peter Moro. It was built in 1949-1951 as a concert hall for the Festival of Britain.

Date

1954

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England Archive

Reference

HRM19A82_156

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

54,1Mb (1,4Mb) / 14,6in x 14,4in / 4370 x 4327 (300dpi)

Keywords

road building buildings London England people interior indoors event music architecture street arts country playing entertainment audience musician British English stage lane avenue performance seating seat performer performing location century Britain inside concert auditorium orchestra furniture classical music B&W venue MONOCHROME fifties royal festival hall 1950s south bank Southbank black & white black and white B W 20th century concert hall Lambeth English Heritage Belvedere Road decade Festival of Britain 1951 TGN photograph Robert Leslie Peter Matthew Robert Matthew Sir Robert Matthew Leslie Martin Martin Peter Moro Moro Eric de Maré Maré Eric de Mare Eric de Maré Robert Matthew Leslie Martin Peter Moro photograph