Plaque

Great Exhibition - Hyde Park - NW

Inscription

700 tons of wrought iron
3800 tons of cast iron
24 miles of wooden guttering
over a mile of mahogany handrails
293,655 panes of glass

The Great Exhibition of the works of industry of all nations & Crystal Palace building
Hyde Park 1851

SW7, West Carriage Drive - near, West Carriage Drive - near

In our photo the romantic couple are just about to walk over the plaque. See the plaque at the entrance for more information about these 5 plaques.

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Great Exhibition - Hyde Park - NW

From the V&A website: "The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of a...

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Great Exhibition - Hyde Park - NW

Manages 8 major Royal Parks covering 5,000 acres: Bushy Park (with the Longf...

Artist based in London.

The presence of this memorial here is explained by Teacher Trail 8: Hunt "lived for the last six years of his life at 7 Cornwall Road (no...

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An unusually decorative and high quality plaque for such a mundane event. We don't know whether it refers to a restoration of just the me...

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The original 1923 WW1 memorial consisted of the whole Casualty Department building for the Royal Northern Hospital, including this arched...

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Site of the Bull and Mouth Inn, demolished 1888. The Corporation of the City of London

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In our photo the plaque can be seen to the left of the pale blue street sign. There is an identical plaque at the other end of the subway.

3 subjects commemorated, 1 creator

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