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150 years of the Royal Albert Hall: the most iconic moments through the decades

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Great Exhibition of 1851 (it generated almost £25 million in today’s money) had allowed him and his friend, the civil servant and design advocate Henry Cole, to buy an 87-acre campus in South Kensington, on which the arts and sciences might flourish.Their grand centrepiece was the ‘Central Hall’.

You’d have noticed it right away, up in your balloon. It was huge, for one thing – 274ft by 240ft – but what really stood out was its elliptical shape, inspired by Roman amphitheatres that Cole and architect Francis Fowke had seen at Arles and Nîmes in France. (The shape was so conspicuous that during both World Wars, pilots flying over London used it to navigate by.)Albert did not live to see the first of the hall’s six million red bricks laid,.

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