A trip to the Ideal Home Exhibition

This is a family history post with some pictures I took during a trip to the Ideal Home exhibition in London on Saturday. As well as the gallery below the pictures can be viewed in full size using this link.

Stevenage Station on our trip down to the Ideal Home show

The entrance to Olympia during the 2016 Ideal Home show

Fake trees lined the walk leading to the Ideal Home show

The ‘Good Homes’ magazine stand at the Ideal Home show

Rabbits and chairs at the Ideal Home show

Three bulbs – the ideal home show

Waiting for someone to buy some knives at the Ideal Home show

The flat stacks demo girls at the Ideal Home show

Demonstrating flat stacks at the Ideal Home show

Waiting for customers at the Ideal Home show

Waiting for one of the shows to start at the Ideal Home show

Artisan Bakery provided a snack area

Ice cream ‘pick and mix’ stand at the Ideal Home show

At the Ice cream ‘pick and mix’ a Cow was eating an ice cream

Posh Dogs at Olympia

One of the snack areas at the Ideal Home show

The shush puppies Logo at the Ideal Home show

The Posh Dogs Stand at the Ideal Home show

A cow eating an ice cream at the Ideal Home Show

I bored exhibiter playing with his phone

On the top floor of Olympia during the Ideal Home show

Emma with an Ice Cream at the Ideal Home show

Abandoned models at the Ideal Home show

People queuing to enter one of the show homes at the Ideal Home show

The Barclays Bank stand at the Ideal Home show

Yellow ducks on a demo garden tub at the Ideal Home show

The Pod – One of the show homes at the Ideal Home Show

Candid shot at the Good food stand – Ideal Home show

‘Good morning, Sir’ – trying to sell a car at the Ideal Home Show

Emma looking into the fountain at the Ideal Home Show

The fountain and false trees at the Ideal Home Show in Olympia

Insinkerator sales person trying to make a sale at the Ideal Home show

Hire bikes waiting to be used outside the Olympia conference centre.

I had originally planned to take some pictures with a 35mm film camera, and took along a recently acquired Pentax Z-20 autofocus camera loaded with some Fuji 800 ISO film. It turned out the venue was too dark for ‘only’ 800 ISO however, so the majority of the pictures above were taken with my Pentax K5 (which I fortunately had with me as well) which I had to set to ISO 1600 or higher to get those shots.

All in all it was a reasonably interesting day but I didn’t see too much that was innovative – the majority of the show is simply companies trying to sell things. Lots of stands had item with ‘never to be repeated’ discounts which I suspect are available all the time.