Erection date: /5/2011
Length of building: 1848 ft
Breadth of building: 408 ft
Height of building: 108 ft
The area of St Paul's Cathedral x 10
Workers: over 5000
Time to build: 9 months
The Great Exhibition of the works of industry of all nations & Crystal Palace building
Hyde Park 1851
SW7, South Carriage Drive, Will to Win cafe
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 - SW
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 - SW
Manages 8 major Royal Parks covering 5,000 acres: Bushy Park (with the Longf...
The plaque refers to 'wall mounted artworks' but we did not see any on our visit in 2012, unless the plaques now in the ground used to be...
Milton sitting on the left; Shakespeare on the right; Carnegie's cartouche is inside the porch, above the door. Erected in 1905, Carnegi...
The building is also known as the Imperial Hall. Up the top, in an Art Nouveau swirl the building is dated 1903. The plaques are, left t...
The plaque was unveiled on or shortly before 10 April 2019. It was not yet on the building but on one of those easel things often used fo...
84 Charing Cross Road. The booksellers Marks & Co. were on this site which became world renowned through the book by Helene Hanff.
Our drawing, from Exploring Southwark,shows the building to the right of the Mission before the Club building arrived.This website also gives the history of the construction of the two buildings, a...
The cherubs hold theatrical masks. Musical instruments adorn the outer pillars. The inner pilasters are surmounted with the set-square ...
The British Pathe commentator says the plaque will eventually be sent to Russia. Some people are carrying a large banner reading 'Quiet N...
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...
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