The Great Globe, Leicester Square, Westminster, London Size:Large: 7 x 5in A coach and pair

A coach and pair

Exhibition at the Royal Horticultural Society

Palace of Westminster

Interior view of Trinity Hall

Also including figures and building materials on south bank of River Thames

The Great Globe, Leicester Square, Westminster, London Size:Large: 7 x 5in A coach and pairThe Great Globe, Leicester Square, Westminster, London, c1855. View with a street scene. Wyld's 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 Earth's surface. The globe remained in Leicester Square until 1862.