Ring, architectural feature

This ring plate was mounted beneath the Skylon, a distinctive architectural feature at the 1951 Festival of Britain exhibtion site on London's South Bank. Designed by the architects Powell & Moya the Skylon was a 90 metre high futuristic vertical, steel latticework structure clad in aluminium. Mounted on cables 15 metres above ground the structure appeared to hover over the exhibition site without any means of support. At night, the Skylon could be seen lighting up the London sky for miles and became an iconic symbol of the Festival and South Bank throughout 1951. With the closure of the Festival at the end of 1951 the Skylon, along with other architectural features was sold to a scrap metal dealer and dismantled. This brass plate is the only surviving material feature of the Skylon.