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...

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The two plaques appear to be back to back; the outside one being the foundation stone and the inside one the opening stone. To the left,...

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Our colleague Alan Patient decoded JEECS into ‘Jewish East End Celebration Society’ and the colourful something is their logo, so they ar...

2 subjects commemorated, 2 creators

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A London Inheritance explains that only the lower section of wall is actually Roman. The top, brick, section is from 1477 when the City W...

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There are 8 Courts running off the north side of this section of Fleet Street and on the ground at the entrance to each Court is a plaque...

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We can't find an image of the school that was bombed. An early school appears on this 1895 map, occupying the northern part of the site, ...

Civilian war dead | WW2
7 subjects commemorated, 1 creator

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