Speechification » White City http://speechification.com Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:33:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Postcards from the White City http://speechification.com/2008/10/28/postcards-from-the-white-city/ http://speechification.com/2008/10/28/postcards-from-the-white-city/#comments Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:57:17 +0000 Steve Bowbrick http://speechification.com/?p=368 Court of Honour, Franco-British Exhibition, London 1908

Friend of Speechification Matt Jones suggested this one. A nice half hour presented by Robert Elms, White City native, about one of those glorious temporary fantasy cities, this one built to house the Franco-British exhibition of 1908: a dazzlingly white affair that filled a huge vacant plot between Shepherd's Bush Green and Wood Lane (where the BBC now stands). Also the reason we now call White City White City. MP3.

The pic is from the White City Stories Archive project for primary schools in Hammersmith and Fulham. And here's a set of lovely pictures made by children in the project.

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