This advertisement is from South Bank Exhibition Guide: Festival of Britain.  If you are interested in learning more about the Festival of Britain (FoB), click here.

This image is under Crown copyright.

This advertisement is from South Bank Exhibition Guide: Festival of Britain.  If you are interested in learning more about the Festival of Britain (FoB), click here.

This image is under Crown copyright.

Buy the whisky taken by Sir Ernest Shackleton on his Imperial Trans-Atlantic Expedition of 1914 ‘for medicinal and celebratory purposes’.

This advertisement is from South Bank Exhibition Guide: Festival of Britain.  If you are interested in learning more about the Festival of Britain (FoB), click here.

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This advertisement is from South Bank Exhibition Guide: Festival of Britain.  If you are interested in learning more about the Festival of Britain (FoB), click here.

This image is under Crown copyright.

If you would like to buy a 1950s bottle of Black & White Scotch, click here.

You probably cannot read it on this image, but the bottom of the ad says “The only gin that holds the Blue Seal of the Institute of Hygiene” … not your normal alcohol tag-line!

This advertisement is from Pleasure Gardens Guide: Festival of Britain.  If you are interested in learning more about the Festival of Britain (FoB), click here.

This image is under Crown copyright.

Buy a 1950s bottle of Booth’s Finest Dry Gin.

Never heard if this brewery until I saw these ads … because today, it has been converted into a site for small, creative businesses.

This advertisement is from Pleasure Gardens Guide: Festival of Britain.  If you are interested in learning more about the Festival of Britain (FoB), click here.

This image is under Crown copyright.

This advertisement is from Pleasure Gardens Guide: Festival of Britain.  If you are interested in learning more about the Festival of Britain (FoB), click here.

This image is under Crown copyright.

This advertisement is from the Festival Ship Campania: A Guide to the Story It Tells (1951).  If you are interested in learning more about the Festival of Britain (FoB), click here.

This image is under Crown copyright.

This advertisement was taken from the Festival of Britain 1951 in Northern Ireland: Official Souvenir Handbook.  If you are interested in learning more about the Festival of Britain (FoB), click here.

(Note: This is just the first of many FoB images that I am going to upload as I finish working on my dissertation.  All of them are published in Crown documents, meaning that they are under Crown copyright.)