The Great Globe, Leicester Square, Westminster, London Finish:Stretched Upper right

Upper right

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

Developed by the Edward Harley

'The Standard Bearer'

The Great Globe, Leicester Square, Westminster, London Finish:Stretched Upper rightThe 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.