The Great Globe, Leicester Square, Westminster, London Size:Large: 7 x 5in Also including figures

Also including figures

but fell into disrepair until the ruins were converted into a private house for the Courtauld family in the 1930s

including a coach advertising Morison's Pills

View of Lambeth Palace

The Great Globe, Leicester Square, Westminster, London Size:Large: 7 x 5in Also including figuresThe 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.