Title

Festival Pleasure Gardens, Battersea Park, Wandsworth, London, 1955-1960.

Caption

Festival Pleasure Gardens, Battersea Park, Wandsworth, London, 1955-1960. Passengers riding the waterchute fairground ride at the Battersea Festival Gardens, Greater London, illuminated at night. Battersea Park was transformed as part of the Festival of Britain celebrations in 1951.

Date

1955

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England Archive

Reference

HRM19B35_307

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

53,9Mb (2,0Mb) / 14,4in x 14,6in / 4315 x 4370 (300dpi)

Keywords

water park London England fun riding rider fairground excitement night country entertainment splashing British English illumination location century illuminated Britain illuminate splash exciting fairground ride concept illuminations water chute time of day B&W MONOCHROME fifties 1950s lit Up black & white black and white B W 20th century English Heritage Battersea Park decade TGN Wandsworth photograph John Gay Gay John Festival Pleasure Gardens photograph