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 is set back from the pavement behind a high wall, and can only be photographed from a difficult angle.
The plaque is low down on the house adorned with scaffolding, so low that it suggests he lived in the basement flat.
The plaque refers to the Verbruggens as brothers, when in fact they were father and son.
Greater London Council Major Walter Clopton Wingfield, 1833 - 1912, father of lawn tennis, lived here.
The stone plaque is laid into the pavement.
On Saturday the 3rd August 1912, the 2nd Walworth Troop of five adults and twenty-four young scouts sailed from Waterloo Bridge for Leysdown on the Isle of Sheppey. They moored at Erith for the nig...
Born between 322 and 331. Known as Monica of Hippo she is assumed to have been born in Thagaste (present-day Souk Ahras), Algeria. Mother of Saint Augustine.
Eliot moved here in 1957 after he married his second wife, his secretary Valerie, and died here 8 years later.
