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.

Both Mazzini and Carlyle are almost always depicted with a beard but finally we found Carlyle displaying his chin and that image looks to...

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Sir Rowland Hill, 1795 - 1879, postal reformer, lived here. LCC

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In our photo the plaque can be seen on the wall to the right of the green fascia.

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In our photo the plaque can be seen on the corner, below the satellite dishes. The National Archives catalogue lists some entries which ...

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The inscription reference to "war everywhere" was chosen in recognition of the fact that many people living on the Morland Estate now are...

3 subjects commemorated

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