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...
The report in the glazed stand contain this text: Barry Trussell died a month after a fire in the Intensive Care Unit of Tooting’s St Ge...
Turner bought the land, in the deep countryside in 1807. He designed the house and it was built by 1813, as Solus Lodge. This was his cou...
Referring to Camp Griffiss in Bushy Park, this very useful document says "After the war the buildings in the North East corner continued ...
The plaques are on the ground at the foot of the tree. The tree is one of several which are reputed to be the oldest in Britain. The buil...
This stone is a substitute for the more elaborate memorial that was located on the other side of the road, and subsequently removed. It c...
Founded by William Shipley as the "Society of Arts" in Rawthmell's Coffee House. They carried on meeting in coffee houses and taverns but as the society grew they needed more space. Shipley rented ...
24th September 1917 13 people were killed and 22 injured near this spot on the steps of the old Bedford Hotel by a 112 lb bomb dropped b...
This was started by John Redington, selling printed sheets of characters and scenery for toy theatres. He ran it until his death when his family took over. 1877 his daughter Eliza married Benjamin ...
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