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.

Coppice Row turnpike stood near here, c 1750 - 1830. London Borough of Islington - Historic Site

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We were pleased to find a website, St Peters Bethnal Green, that has already listed these people and provided lots of research, and we di...

War dead | WW1
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Ellen Terry, the great actress, lived here from 1904 to 1920.

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Ernest Christopher Dowson, poet, 1867 - 1900. lived in a house which stood on this site. London Borough of Lewisham

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Erected between May 2017 and March 2019.

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