Glasgow's 1938 Empire Exhibition was described by the organisers as "the greatest held anywhere in the world since the famous British Empire Exhibition at Wembley in 1924". Opened by George VI, it was staged over 175 acres of Bellahouston Park and ran for six months at an estimated total cost of £10m. The event presented a microcosm of the Empire, with all its arts, culture, and industrial products. It contained over 70 palaces and pavilions, scores of smaller buildings and the gas, electricity, water and drainage services installed in the park would have supplied a permanent city of half a million inhabitants. Ten sub-stations distributed electricity for the million-candle-power illuminations through 13 miles of underground cables and 240 miles of wiring. Following the Exhibition many of the buildings were dismantled and rebuilt throughout Britain and abroad.
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