| Description | Material includes: minutes and agendas form the second, third and fourth meetings in 1949 of the Council. Memoranda including: 'Regional Plans'; 'The Old Vic'; 'Commonwealth Participation'; 'Finance and Organisation'; 'Festival Centres in Scotland'. 'Festival Gardens'; 'Festival Estimates' and 'Recommendations from the Northern Ireland Committee'. A Council Paper with a report and text of the speeches made by: General Lord Ismay, Chairman of the Council; Gerald Barry, Director-General; and Sir George Aylwen, the Lord Mayor of London at the meeting of the Heads of Local Government of England and Wales at Guildhall (8 Jun 1949). Material also includes a copy of a correspondent from Lord Ismay to the Lord Mayor of Manchester with his reply regarding Manchester inclusion in the Festival of Britain 1951. |