The Great Globe, Leicester Square, Westminster, London Finish:Single desk strewn with papers and

desk strewn with papers and writing tools

was to celebrate the end of the War of the Austrian Succession

The tower of St John-at-Hackney is visible in the distance

and was formerly believed to have been occasioned by the sin of gluttony

A chickweed poultice can be used to treat skin conditions

The Great Globe, Leicester Square, Westminster, London Finish:Single desk strewn with papers andThe 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.