Ideal Home Show in the Century Street. In September 2009 the show changed hands for the first time in its history, after being sold by the "Daily Mail" to Media 10. The 2010 Ideal Home Show won the award for Best Consumer Show over 2,000sqm at the Industry AEO Awards. The 2011 Ideal Home Show took place from 11 to 27 March at Earls Court Exhibition Centre. With more than 50,000 buyers each exhibitor sold goods worth £1,000,000. Ideal Home Show The Ideal Home Show (formerly called the Ideal Home Exhibition) is an annual event in London held at Olympia, London. The show
Ideal Home Show the first time. The Second World War meant that the exhibition was suspended from 1940 to 1946 but from 1947 onwards it continued to grow, culminating in a huge attendance in 1957 of almost 1.5 million people. The show continued to 'Educate and Entertain' throughout the decades and in 1953, the Coronation year, it even featured a two-thirds scale copy of the state coach. The first microwave oven was launched at the show in 1947. In 1957 the British housewife still spent an average of 70 hours a week on housework The 1960s was an era of forward-looking fashion and