London Boat Show in March 2015 after allegedly operating a Ponzi scheme. Here are the attendances of recent years of the Show. London Boat Show The London Boat Show was held each January at the ExCeL Exhibition Centre in London. It was organised by National Boat Shows, which is a subsidiary of the British Marine Federation. The show's cancellation from 2019 was announced in May 2018, with low visitor satisfaction and lack of industry support cited by the organisers. The first London Boat Show was held at Olympia, before moving to the Earls Court Exhibition Centre in 1957. A popular feature of the
Ideal House Competition Ideal House Competition The Ideal House Competition was run for many years as part of the Ideal Home Show. Every year designs were invited and the winning schemes would be constructed at Olympia for the Ideal Home Show the following year. The houses were often the product of progressive builders who were keen to secure sales of their houses. As a result, many of the Ideal Homes temporarily exhibited at Olympia were subsequently permanently built across the Country. Examples include: A more innovative aspect of the Ideal Home Show was the House of the Future which ran through the 1930s