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