The Great Globe, Leicester Square, Westminster, London Finish:Stretched 'Henry Benjamin Hanbury Beaufoy'

'Henry Benjamin Hanbury Beaufoy'

Upper right

View of the opening of new London Bridge by William VI and Queen Adelaide

View of Greenwich from the hill in Greenwich Park

Developed by the Edward Harley

The Great Globe, Leicester Square, Westminster, London Finish:Stretched 'Henry Benjamin Hanbury Beaufoy'The 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.