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...
Dr Jabez Bunting, 1779 - 1858, leading Wesleyan Methodist, lived here, 1833 - 1858. Historic House - London Borough of Islington
The verse comes from "The Apocrypha: Prayer of Azariah, Chapter 1". We don't understand why this plaque excludes Augustine Webster who w...
As far as we can tell this never was the site of Toynbee Hall which appears always to have been sited at 28 Commercial Street, as it stil...
This must have been one of the Queen's last plaques.
This, the second English purpose-built playhouse was erected very close to the first, The Theatre, and run by the same man, Burbage. Not named for the modern drape on a proscenium arch, but for it...
Designed the Post Office Tower. Chief architect for the Ministry of Public Building and Works, 1951 - 1970. Andrew Behan has researched Bedford: Eric Bedford was born on 23 August 1909 in Halifax,...
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