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.

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them

This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Great Exhibition - Hyde Park - NW

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 - NW

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

Artist based in London.

The plaque is above the dark van on the left of our photo.

3 subjects commemorated, 2 creators

View on map

Pete Townshend unveiled the plaque.

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator

View on map

There are two other plaques on the front of this building. They don't commemorate anything so we can't really enter them as memorials but...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator

View on map

Unveiled by Pete Murray, Tony Prince (The Royal Ruler) and Mr Jean Olinger, the Ambassador of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Video at New...

1 subject commemorated, 2 creators

View on map

To the left, just out of view of our camera there is a petrol station. This is where the Hitchcock family greengrocers used to stand and...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator

View on map