The Great Globe, Leicester Square, Westminster, London Finish:Stretched 'Perambulators in Hyde Park

'Perambulators in Hyde Park

Upper right

The philosopher Erasmus in square cap and fur trimmed robes

'Henry Benjamin Hanbury Beaufoy'

View of Morgan's Farm

The Great Globe, Leicester Square, Westminster, London Finish:Stretched 'Perambulators in Hyde ParkThe 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.