Visit southbankcentre.co.uk/festivalmemories for more info Page 1 One of my earliest memories I wasn't alive during the Festival o f Britain, (my elder sister was born on 10 May 1951, one week after it opened). However, one of my earliest memories is of the day my younger sister was born, Saturday 28 June 1958. When my gr andmother took my elder sister and me to Battersea Fun Fair, the only remaining relic of the Festival - and when we got home, we had a lov ely little sister!