site in 1952. Balloon accident On 14 August 1908, a balloon owned by American balloonist Capt. Lovelace exploded at the exhibition, killing his 18-year-old secretary and a male employee. Six others were injured, including a 47-year-old employee who died days after the accident. Newspaper reports indicated that the explosion occurred when a lighted match was thrown to the ground during preparations for a flight. Site today After being used for four more exhibitions up to 1914, the site fell into disrepair and was unused for over twenty years. It was then demolished bit by bit to make way for various developments over the last century. First in the 1930s the housing estate in the North of the site, now centred on Commonwealth Avenue, then the Territorial Army (TA) took over a corner on South Africa Road in WW2, The BBC took over much of the remaining site from the 1950s onwards with the BBC Television Centre (now itself being developed into the 'Television Centre' flats, studios and retail), BBC Media Village and BBC Worldwide buildings and in the early 2000s the last buildings on the East of Wood Lane were demolished to make way for the Westfield London development. Only the internal structure of the TA building on South Africa Road remains from the numerous halls and ornate buildings of the original exhibition. Hammersmith Park, at the north of Frithville Gardens, was once part of the Japanese Garden, and is the only part of the 1908 exhibition site still visible. A small area of tiling preserved from the Garden could be seen inside the main Television Centre site adjacent to the Studio 1 Audience Entrance. The White City Stadium site, in Wood Lane adjacent to the Westway overpass and once part of the Exhibition, is now occupied by the BBC Media Village. See also History of Shepherd's Bush List of world's fairs References Bibliography Franco-British Exhibition, London 1908. Official Guide, London: Bemrose & Sons Ltd, 1908 Franco-British Exhibition, London, 1908. Fine Arts Catalogue, London: Bemrose & Sons Ltd, 1908 Geppert, Alexander C.T., Fleeting Cities. Imperial Expositions in Fin-de-Siècle Europe, Basingstoke/New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Gill, Andrew, The Franco-British 'White City' London Exhibition of 1908, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015 Knight, Donald R., The Exhibitions: Great White City Shepherds Bush London: 70th Anniversary 1908-1978, London: privately published, 1978 Knight, Donald R., The Exhibitions: Great White City, Shepherds Bush, London: 100th Anniversary