Results tagged “Olympia”

It's got a bit of history to it this Ideal Home Show business. Unlike many of the massive events gracing London's exhibition centres, this one has a lineage that goes back more than 100 years. It was founded by the Daily Mail in 1908, the same year Suffragettes were chaining themselves to railings in a bid to get the vote, Ford's first Model T rolled off the production line and work on the first tower in the UK to use reinforced concrete - The Royal Liver Building - had just begun.

The annual Toy Fair trade show is quitting Excel for Olympia.

Organisers have announced that the exhibition will be moving to West London from 2010, and switching from a four to three-day fair to "sustain the Toy Fair over the coming years".