The Great Globe, Leicester Square, Westminster, London Finish:Stretched (now Blomfield Street)

(now Blomfield Street)

'Henry Benjamin Hanbury Beaufoy'

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

Upper right

'Scholars in a Garden'

The Great Globe, Leicester Square, Westminster, London Finish:Stretched (now Blomfield Street)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.