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...
Morton Hotel is part of Imperial London Hotels Ltd who own the building.
The Hackney Citizen reported that the names on the plaque are all "late African-Caribbean musicians with 'strong ties' to Hackney".
And they say that no one ever put up a plaque to a committee! Ornamental Passions points out the flowers and the rustic fence.
The 'plaque' is to the right of the circular 'City Heritage Award' plaque.
W. Somerset Maugham's novel Of Human Bondage (P654-5) contains a lovely description of daybreak seem from Westminster Bridge c.1898 which...
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