IN PICTURES
DID YOU KNOW?
TOO GOOD TO WASTE
Designed by Sir John Simpson and Maxwell Ayrton, the original stadium was only intended to be a temporary structure for the British Empire Exhibition (see page 60). It was saved by businessmen Arthur Elvin and Sir James Stevenson, who saw its future potential.
WORK IN PROGRESS, 1923
Located in a quiet corner of Middlesex and surrounded by open fields, construction work on Wembley Stadium – originally known as the Empire Stadium – was completed in April 1923, less than a year after it began. Here, labourers are seen putting the finishing touches to a block of turnstiles () and erecting one of).
