Six years after the Second World War the UK government decided a celebration was in order.

More than half a decade had passed since the Allies defeated the Nazis and helped bring an end to the global battle which killed millions and devastated billions.

Britain still looked war-torn and showed physical and mental distress despite years of peace in the time that had passed.

In truth the idea for an exhibition came in 1943 but was kept aside because the cost of reconstruction across the country was the priority.

Eventually it was decided something would be held in 1951 to mark the centenary of the 1851 Great Exhibition which was solely held in London.

This new event, the Festival of Britain, would be spread out across the four nations with each country's contributions celebrated with every ounce of creativity that could be summed up in a time when Britishness was a sought-after quality around the world.

The main players in the festival were science, technology, industrial design, architecture and the arts.

Many other festivals in cities and towns which were already taking place were all linked in with the Festival of Britain: an Aberdeen arts festival, the Edinburgh International Festival of Music and Drama, the Highland Festival in Inverness.

Royal aircraft carrier HMS Campania also toured the nation with visits to Dundee and Glasgow.

But while the majority of the festival would take place at a centre-piece exhibition in London, Glasgow was included as part of the planning with a display of its Industrial Power prowess.

The Glasgow exhibition was held at Kelvin Hall and featured several separate "halls" dedicate to some form of contributing factor to industry such as the Hall of Power (top picture), a steel section (above) and an exhibition on the age of electricity (below).

Each featured individual attractions such as a replica coal mine, blacksmith's forge and a miniature display of hydro-electricity from how it would look and work inside a power station.

King George VI opened the first part of the festival in London on May 3 but it was not until towards the end of the month that the Glasgow leg was to open.

After the London opening the King was ordered to take several months off on medical grounds which led to his daughter, Princess Elizabeth, to come to Scotland on his behalf instead.

Just eight months later the King passed away and it would be down to her to succeed him as Queen Elizabeth II the following year.

The BBC article says the then Princess described herself as "a lover of Scotland", something which she has arguably shown through the decades since, and said the exhibition was "a well-deserved compliment to the land of so many famous engineers and inventors".

The Scottish influence on the festival did not end at the border, with a locomotive built in Glasgow transported down to London earlier that year to form part of the South Bank exhibition at the centre of the celebrations.