The Great Globe, Leicester Square, Westminster, London Finish:Stretched View of Greenwich from the

View of Greenwich from the hill in Greenwich Park

(now Blomfield Street)

'The Standard Bearer'

Upper right

The Great Globe, Leicester Square, Westminster, London Finish:Stretched View of Greenwich from theThe 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.