Celebrate Good Times....with a Map!

A marching column featured the British Chiefs of Staff and the Allied Supreme Commanders. Then came a mechanised column more than 4 miles long and containing over 500 vehicles. Nearly 2 million people viewed the procession

The Festival of Britain was a national exhibition and fair that reached millions of visitors throughout the UK in the summer of 1951

In London, events spread out across the capital with the main sites being the purpose built Festival Hall on the South Bank, and the Festival Pleasure Gardens in Battersea Park. Over 8 million people visited these 2 sites alone

The 1951 Festival Maps are the earliest we have that include foreign languages - something quite common in our material today

2 million copies of a special folder map showing the coronation area were issued to assist spectators in planning their journeys. The map design was strikingly similar to that of the 1937 coronation!

Bespoke publications including passenger guides, sight-seeing leaflets and underground maps were produced to support the communication strategy and featured an image of World Cup Willie, the tournament’s mascot

A Royal procession and several large-scale events were planned to mark the occasion, including a music concert at Buckingham Palace Gardens, a firework display at Green Park and Trafalgar Square, and a Notting Hill Carnival recreation down The Mall involving 20,000 people

It began in 1966 and takes place every August Bank Holiday weekend in the streets of London W11.

Carnival is the single most popular event in London, attracting between 750,000-1.5 million people across the 2 days. London Underground transports c.50% of those attending

People arrive and leave through key stations that serve the Carnival area and there are often station closures for crowd control measures

It's crucial to effectively communicate to the public what constraints may be in place. This communication can take the form of maps, leaflets, radio adverts, TV adverts, and posters directing people to the TfL website

Queen Elizabeth II was only the second monarch in history to reach this milestone. The focus of the celebrations was London, with the Thames Diamond Jubilee River Pageant a major event on the 3 June 2012. All 8 of TfL’s piers were involved

Locations of main rail and Underground stations, city celebration sites, discovery trails, National Olympic Houses, visitor information sites, London 2012 venues, Olympic Museum, 2012 shop and road event routes, were all displayed on a single map

Includes map of key bus routes in Central London, and basic map of East London showing Olympic venues and main transport hubs