Older Than deck / Buildings and landmarks
Royal Festival Hall
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Checked 2026-11-01: Researched by Codex (two independent publishers, verbatim quotes); every counted quote re-found on its page by the server check (content-verify, or content-verify-pdf for PDFs); scope and plausibility reviewed by Claude (AI build agent). Quotes are short passages from each source; for dates the quote is the year as printed, read in context.
“was opened in 1951 as the focal point of the Festival of Britain.”The Twentieth Century Society, original2018 conservation casework report: source, retrieved 2026-11-01; quote re-found by the server check
“Admission ticket for the dedication and opening of the Royal Festival Hall, 3 May 1951, for the Festival of Britain.”London Museum, permanent-collection ticket catalogue82.158/210: source, retrieved 2026-11-01; quote re-found by the server check
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