The Great Globe, Leicester Square, Westminster, London Finish:Stretched The philosopher Erasmus in square

The philosopher Erasmus in square cap and fur trimmed robes

View of Greenwich from the hill in Greenwich Park

View of Morgan's Farm

'Henry Benjamin Hanbury Beaufoy'

'Perambulators in Hyde Park

The Great Globe, Leicester Square, Westminster, London Finish:Stretched The philosopher Erasmus in squareThe 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.