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.

Chosen as our featured memorial in July 2004. The decadent relationship lived by this outrageous pair has left a trail of plaques across ...

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Poplar Town Hall, 1938 - 1965, Architect: Clifford Culpin Bow Heritage Trail

2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator

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This building, erected in 1957, is named after Sir William Francis Kyffin Taylor, G.B.E., K.C., Lord Maenan, a Master of the Bench, 1905 ...

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Initially we were puzzled why the Corporation of the City of London would erect a plaque so far to the west of its patch, but our colleag...

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This plaque is just to the left of the entrance to the hotel.

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