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.

There are actually 2 plaques, with the same wording, on the building, one at first floor and one at ground floor level.

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator

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The blue plaque is below the Palladian window to the left of our photo. Before 2011 the square blue plaque was where the red information ...

3 subjects commemorated

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You can see that there used to be another plaque fixed to this wall. Let's hope it was a cheap temporary thing removed when this rather n...

4 subjects commemorated, 1 creator

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Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850 - 1894, author, lived here. Erected by the Hampstead Plaque Fund.

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Plaque unveiled by Lord Kinnock.

2 subjects commemorated, 2 creators

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