The Great Globe, Leicester Square, Westminster, London Finish:Stretched 'Scholars in a Garden'

'Scholars in a Garden'

Upper right

View of Greenwich from the hill in Greenwich Park

(now Blomfield Street)

'Perambulators in Hyde Park

The Great Globe, Leicester Square, Westminster, London Finish:Stretched 'Scholars in a Garden'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.