Graham Webb
Blog 22 April 2008
In Belgium this week there are many celebrations to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the World’s Fair opened on the 17th April 1958 at the Heysel. It is as if they are still under the spell of those events that took place half a century ago.

The Belgians are still very proud, and quite rightly so, that they were allocated the first World’s Fair to be held since the end of the Second World War in 1945. The previous one had been held in New York, 1939, and would be a hard act to follow. But the Expo 1958 at Brussels was a big success; and some 6 months after the opening more than 42 million people had paid a visit. More

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