The Great Globe, Leicester Square, Westminster, London Finish:Single The explosion

The explosion

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

Both women are wearing full hooped skirt dresses with tight bodices

the harlot is now beating hemp in Bridewell Prison

The Great Globe, Leicester Square, Westminster, London Finish:Single The explosionThe 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.