DOWNSTREAM CIRCUIT - "THE PEOPLE" : The Lion and the Unicorn (SB14)
Clues to the British character and tradition. The Lion symbolises action, the Unicorn imagination.
"The British people are something more than the sum of men with ancestors, children in schools, families in homes and gardens, patients in hospitals. They are, in addition, compositions of various particular habits, attitudes, instincts, qualities and characteristic moods. But these attributes, not being tangible, are hard to display 'in the round'.
Nevertheless, even in such an Exhibition as this, there should be some tokens and visible reminders of the British people's contributions to the world of ideas. So, this Pavilion offers some clues to their character-as it reveals itself in the use of the English language, in the growth of British parliamentary government, and in the pattern of the British way of life.
The title of the Pavilion - "the Lion and the Unicorn" - serves to symbolise two of the main qualities of the national character: realism and strength on the one hand and, on the other, independence and imagination."
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