The Glasgow Evening News was an important Scottish newspaper in the early 20th century. It was founded as the Glasgow Evening Post in 1866 and became the Evening News in 1915.
14-571: The Latin-British Exhibition of 1912 (May 25 to October 19) was the fifth in the series of the White City Exhibitions, after previous exhibitions such as the first Franco-British Exhibition of 1908, and one of the last exhibitions held in Shepherd's Bush , London, in the exhibition space known as the Great White City, and later simply as White City . The exhibition site is now occupied by
28-431: A " Senegalese village", which were designed to communicate the success of imperialism . The Irish village ("Ballymaclinton") was inhabited by 150 "colleens" (Irish girls) who demonstrated various forms of domestic industry, as well as displays of manufacturing and even an art gallery. The "Senegalese village" was a so-called "native village" displaying day-to-day life, as well as various artefacts. Press reports commented on
42-647: The BBC White City centre and the Westfield London shopping centre, one of the largest in Britain. There were reproductions of the cities of Rome, Naples, Venice, Florence, Granada, Toledo, as well as sites in Britain plus native villages from the colonies. Although the amusement section was smaller compared to previous years, it still featured popular exhibits including the Mountain Railway, The House of Troubles,
56-638: The Glasgow Evening News and the sister papers the Daily Record and the Sunday Mail , for £1 million. He formed a controlling company known as Associated Scottish Newspapers Ltd . Kemsley sold all three papers to the London-based Mirror Group in 1955. The journalist and author Neil Munro was editor for a time, and his Erchie MacPherson and Para Handy stories were first published in
70-619: The Territorial Army (TA) took over a corner on South Africa Road in WW2, The BBC took over much of the remaining site from the 1950s onwards with the BBC Television Centre (now itself being developed into the 'Television Centre' flats, studios and retail), BBC Media Village and BBC Worldwide buildings and in the early 2000s the last buildings on the East of Wood Lane were demolished to make way for
84-565: The Westfield London development. Only the internal structure of the TA building on South Africa Road remains from the numerous halls and ornate buildings of the original exhibition. Hammersmith Park, at the north of Frithville Gardens, was once part of the Japanese Garden, and is the only part of the 1908 exhibition site still visible. A small area of tiling preserved from the Garden could be seen inside
98-630: The "surprising cleanliness" of the Irish, while readers were reminded that the Senegalese were "cleaner than they looked". Also exhibited was Locomotive No.516 from the South Eastern & Chatham Railway (SE&CR) with a tri-composite railway brake carriage. Limericks were used to advertise this event: In 1937, a large portion of the White City site was cleared to make way for a housing estate. During
112-595: The Franco-British Exhibition" first published in the Glasgow Evening News of 4 July 1908. After being used for four more exhibitions up to 1914, the site fell into disrepair and was unused for over twenty years. It was then demolished bit by bit to make way for various developments over the last century. First in the 1930s the housing estate in the North of the site, now centred on Commonwealth Avenue, then
126-678: The Great Bostock Jungle, the Spiral Chute, and the Caves of Laughter. Among the attractions was the Flip Flap, a large cable car with views of the city. This article related to a British festival is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Franco-British Exhibition The Franco-British Exhibition was a large public fair held in London between 14 May and 31 October 1908. It
140-724: The clearance, the Flip Flap, and a number of other White City structures, were sold for scrap to the steel firm George Cohen, Sons and Co Limited—the same company who had dismantled the Great Wheel of the Earl's Court Exhibition , and went on to dismantle the Skylon , dome, and ten other buildings, at the Festival of Britain site in 1952. On 14 August 1908, a balloon owned by American balloonist Captain Thomas Turpin Lovelace (1873–1964) exploded at
154-424: The district alongside the festivities. The fair was the first international exhibition co-organised and sponsored by two countries. It covered an area of some 140 acres (57 hectares), including an artificial lake, surrounded by an immense network of white buildings in elaborate (often Oriental) styles. The most popular attractions at the exhibition were the two so-called "colonial villages"—an " Irish village" and
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#1732858992413168-420: The exhibition, killing his 18-year-old secretary and a male employee. Six others were injured, including a 47-year-old employee who died days after the accident. Newspaper reports indicated that the explosion occurred when a lighted match was thrown to the ground during preparations for a flight. Neil Munro gives a satirical account of a visit to the Franco-British Exhibition in his Erchie Macpherson story "At
182-755: The main Television Centre site adjacent to the Studio 1 Audience Entrance. The White City Stadium site, in Wood Lane adjacent to the Westway overpass and once part of the Exhibition, is now occupied by the BBC Media Village . 51°30′44″N 0°13′46″W / 51.51222°N 0.22944°W / 51.51222; -0.22944 Glasgow Evening News In 1922, Gomer Berry (later 1st Viscount Kemsley) bought
196-615: Was the first in the series of the White City Exhibitions. The exhibition attracted 8 million visitors and celebrated the Entente Cordiale signed in 1904 by the United Kingdom and France. The chief architect of the buildings was John Belcher . The Exhibition was held in an area of west London near Shepherd's Bush which is now called White City : the area acquired its name from the exhibition buildings which were all painted white. The 1908 Summer Olympics fencing events were held in
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