Responses from emails

I initially sent emails to London Metropolitan Archive and the Imperial War Museum in the search for more information, it took a while for the responses to come through i shall start with IWM's response.

In some of my information i managed to scrape off of the Internet it was said that the globe was used as a map during the Crimean war so therefore i sent an email to IWM their response was;

I am afraid that the Crimean War is before the period we cover...

They also referred me to some other places i could look.

In this case it may be worth contacting either the Victoria and Albert Museum (V & A) or the British Museum...

Next onto the response from the LMA which took a little longer to get but it was worth it;

Wyld's Globe (also known as Wyld's Great Globe or Wyld's Monster Globe) was situated in Leicester Square, in London between 1851 and 1862. It was designed by H.R Abraham on the idea of James Wyld (1812-1887), a distinguished geographer and Member of Parliament. The Globe was built at the time of the Great Exhibition. Inside a purpose-built building was a giant globe, 60 feet (18 m) in diameter. The globe was hollow and contained a staircase and elevated platforms which members of the public could climb in order to view the continents and seas, complete with modelled mountain ridges and rivers all to scale. The periodical 'Punch' described the experience as "a geographical globule which the mind can take in at one swallow." After the 10-year lease had expired, it was removed in 1862, and the central garden of Leicester Square was redesigned.

We have identified the following items here at London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) that may be of interest to your research:

- MBO/PLANS/007, 008, 009 Westminster. Plan of great globe in Leicester Square, 3rd February 1851
- MBO/PLANS/626 Westminster. Erection of building in Leicester Square, 1845-1853?
- SC/PZ/WE/1/2236, 2237, 2238, 2268, 2269 Prints showing exterior of Wyld's Great Globe
- SC/PZ/WE/01/2223 Print showing construction of "Mr Wyld's large model of the Earth"
- SC/PZ/WE/01/2234 Print showing sectional view of "Mr Wyld's model of the Earth"

Some of the prints referred to above will be extracted from periodicals such as 'Illustrated London News' and 'The Builder', so it may be worth checking those sources in case there are further images.

great the information is definitely worth going to London to check out.