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4 unusual facts about British Empire Exhibition


Charles Frederick Higham

In 1924-25 he visited America to popularise tea-drinking, also publicising the British Empire Exhibition.

Maxwell Ayrton

Wembley Stadium, Palace of Industry, and Palace of Engineering (1921–1923, all now demolished) for the British Empire Exhibition, Wembley (1924–1925) (with John William Simpson)

Wembley’s Conference of Living Religions 1924

Wembley's Parliament of Living Religions was part of the British Empire Exhibition of 1924, inviting famous representatives of important Living Religions within the British Empire.

William Trethewey

Subsequent works were a bust of Christchurch Hospital benefactor Hyam Marks, a bust of Christchurch Mayor Charles Gray (1853–1918) commissioned by Christchurch City Council, a shearer for the British Empire Exhibition in 1924–1925, and plaster work at the Civic Theatre, next to the then civic offices in Manchester Street.



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Watkin's Tower

Among the pavilions and halls designed for the exhibition by John William Simpson, Maxwell Ayrton and Owen Williams was a grand sports arena, the 125,000-capacity British Empire Exhibition Stadium, later to be known as Wembley Stadium.