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Banquets, pageants, gala performances, street parties… there are many ways to mark a monarch’s anniversary on the throne. Back in 1935, however, the Royal Warrant Holders Association did it in some style, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the accession of George V by building a large brick house, filling it with its members’ creations, and presenting it to the King.

The King’s House, as it was known, was built for the 1935 Ideal Home Exhibition at Olympia, London, and later dismantled and rebuilt in Surrey. And, for the exhibition, the house was filled with examples of the trades, products, and skills of warrant holders – furniture designers, jewellers and clockmakers, clothes designers and more.