London: Southbank Centre

Country: England, United Kingdom
City: London
Borough: London Borough of Lambeth
Location: Southbank

Arts complex with various venues:

Royal Festival Hall was the first part of the Southbank Centre to be opened in 1951. Other concert halls, theatres, and museums like Queen Elizabeth Hall (917 seats), Purcell Room (370 seats), National Film Theatre, Hayward Gallery, Museum of the Moving Image, and Saison Poetry Library followed, making Southbank Centre one of the largest cultural centres in the world.

The Royal National Theatre is adjacent to the site, but not operated as part of Southbank Centre.

Links: www.southbankcentre.co.uk, Wikipedia

London: Royal Festival Hall Picture: left: Queen Elizabeth Hall/Purcell Room, middle: Royal Festival Hall, right: Shell Tower
Reverse Text: "The Royal Festival Hall and Shell Centre. Built for the 1951 Festival of Britain, the Royal Festival Hall, seating 3,000, is claimed to be acoustically the best concert hall in the world. The giant Shell Centre (1957) in two huge blocks connected by a tunnel, is one of the largest office builidngs in the world. [...] On the left are the arches of Waterloo Bridge."
Publisher: J. Arthur Dixon; PLO/21362/London
Size: Modern
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London: Royal Festival Hall Picture: left: Queen Elizabeth Hall/Purcell Room, middle: Royal Festival Hall, right: Shell Tower
Reverse Text: "Royal Festival Hall and the Shell Centre"
Publisher: Floodlite, London; PT8041
Type: Divided Back
Size: Classic
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London: Royal Festival Hall Reverse Text: "London, Lambeth, South Bank Arts Centre, Aerial View. Between Waterloo Bridge on the left and Hungerford railway bridge on the right lies an integrated group of buildings on the South Bank. The landing steps in the foreground give on to a riverside terrace. To the right is the Royal Festival Hall with its curved roof. Left of it is the Queen Elizabeth Hall with the Purcell Room behind it. These three halls are for various types of music making. To the rear of the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room is the Hayward Gallery."
Publisher: Gordon Fraser; LRFH-C9
Size: Modern
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London: Southbank Centre Picture: below, centre: Queen Elizabeth Hall/Purcell Room, below, right: Royal Festival Hall, centre: Royal National Theatre
Reverse Text: "Aerial view of the National Theatre and Festival Hall, London"
Publisher: J. Arthur Dixon; Dickinson Robinson Group; PLO/24246
Size: Modern
Sent: to Bielefeld (Germany) [without postmark]

London: Royal Festival Hall Picture: left: Queen Elizabeth Hall/Purcell Room, right: Royal Festival Hall
Reverse Text: "Royal Festival Hall as taken from the Embankment"
Publisher: SBC, London; C21002X
Size: Modern
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London: Southbank Centre Picture: left: Royal National Theatre, centre: Queen Elizabeth Hall/Purcell Room/Hayward Gallery, right: Royal Festival Hall
Reverse Text: "The National Theatre and the Royal Festival Hall from the Victoria Embankment", signed: David Gentleman
Publisher: Penguin; 14/100
Size: Modern
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