Erection date: /5/2011
British Isles & Empire exhibitors: 7381
Foreign exhibitors: 6556
Number of exhibits: over 100,000
Duration of exhibition: 5½
Visitors: 6,039,205
Cheapest ticket: 1 shilling
The Great Exhibition of the works of industry of all nations & Crystal Palace building
Hyde Park 1851
SW7
See the plaque at the entrance for more information about these 5 plaques.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Great Exhibition - Hyde Park - NE
From the V&A website: "The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of a...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Great Exhibition - Hyde Park - NE
Manages 8 major Royal Parks covering 5,000 acres: Bushy Park (with the Longf...
A misunderstanding? A joke? Do the owners now claim they have an English Heritage blue plaque on their house? See Tufnell Park Road for a...
George Gissing, 1857-1903, novelist, lived here, 1882-1884. Greater London Council
Bob Speel informs that this roundel was designed by Lethaby and modelled by Thornycroft.
The architectural salvage items are distributed around the edge of this garden. The foundation stone is to the left of our photo; the Sch...
Joseph.Mallord.William.Turner. landscape.painter. B.1775. D.1851. lived.&.worked.in.this.house.
Cinema designed by H. George Leslie. The entrance facade was dominated by a figure of Mercury perched on top of a windmill-shaped tower. In May 1950 it was re-named the Gaumont. After the final fil...
We think the thickness of the neck has been overdone, even for Churchill. British Pathe have some very dull footage from 1966 of this bus...
The church, the school and the vicarage are all in very distinctive Kentish ragstone and occupy the whole western end of this street bloc...
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