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20 Jan 2006

Cor blimey, look at the struts on that!

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,14932-2000097,00.html

royalfestivalhall_small.jpgThere's an enticing strip show taking place at the South Bank, finds Richard Morrison

[Times Online, 20 January 2006]

It’s London’s most exciting archaeological dig. Except that nothing is being dug, and what’s being uncovered are not Roman treasures but the sometimes disconcerting secrets of the British building trade, circa 1949. Yes, this is the Royal Festival Hall as it hasn’t been seen since it was frantically constructed for the 1951 Festival of Britain: stripped to its concrete and stuffed with 30 miles of scaffolding and 300 construction workers.

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