The Great Globe, Leicester Square, Westminster, London, c1855. Artist: Day & Son

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The Great Globe, Leicester Square, Westminster, London, c1855. Artist: Day & Son

The Great Globe, Leicester Square, Westminster, London, c1855. View with a street scene. Wylds Globe was built in 1851 at the time of the Great Exhibition by James Wyld, a distinguished geographer and MP. Housed inside a purpose-built building was a hollow globe 60 feet in diameter with staircases and platforms from which people could view a representation, to scale, of the Earths surface. The globe remained in Leicester Square until 1862

Media ID 15180532

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