sentences:  The Festival's centrepiece was the South Bank Exhibition, in the Waterloo area of London, which demonstrated the contribution made by British advances in science, technology and industrial design, displayed, in their practical and applied form, against a background representing the living, working world of the day.There were other displays elsewhere, each intended to be complete in itself, yet each part of the one single conception.Festival Pleasure Gardens were set up in Battersea, about three miles up river from the South Bank.