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Brook Green Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Brook Green

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Brook Green history

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The name Brook Green is first recorded in 1493, and the hamlet was established by the 16th century. Businesses in Brook Green included the Osram Lamp Factory, J Lyons and Co. and its complex at Cadby Hall. The original brook, which was covered over in the 19th century, still flows under the hotel. The area’s inns – the Brook Green Hotel and the Queen’s Head – were originally coach houses, and became popular entertainment venues.

You can visit Brook Green places with Walkfo Brook Green to hear history at Brook Green’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Brook Green has 898 places to visit in our interactive Brook Green map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Brook Green, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Brook Green places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Brook Green & the surrounding areas.

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898 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Best Brook Green places to visit

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Brook Green has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Brook Green’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Brook Green’s information audio spots:

Royal Parks Half Marathon The Royal Parks Half Marathon, first held in 2008, takes place each October, starting and finishing in Hyde Park. It is the only half marathon that travels through central London and four of the Royal Parks and is one of London’s largest half marathons, with over 16,000 participants.

Great Exhibition The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, also known as the Great Exhibition or the Crystal Palace Exhibition (in reference to the temporary structure in which it was held), was an international exhibition which took place in Hyde Park, London, from 1 May to 15 October 1851. It was the first in a series of World’s Fairs, exhibitions of culture and industry that became popular in the 19th century. The event was organised by Henry Cole and by Prince Albert, husband of the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom, Queen Victoria. Famous people of the time attended the Great Exhibition, including Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Michael Faraday (who assisted with the planning and judging of exhibits), Samuel Colt, members of the Orléanist Royal Family and the writers Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, George Eliot, Alfred Tennyson and William Makepeace Thackeray. The opening music, under the superintendence of William Sterndale Bennett, was directed by Sir George Smart. The world’s first soft drink, Schweppes, was the official sponsor of the event.

Japanese Village, Knightsbridge The Japanese Village in Knightsbridge, London, was a late Victorian era exhibition of Japanese culture located in Humphreys’ Hall, which took place from January 1885 until June 1887. The exhibition employed around 100 Japanese men and women in a setting built to resemble a traditional Japanese village.

The Long Water The Long Water is a recreational lake in Kensington Gardens, London, England, created in 1730 at the behest of Queen Caroline. The Long Water refers to the long and narrow western half of the lake that is known as the Serpentine. Serpentine Bridge, which marks the boundary between Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens, also marks the Long Water’s eastern boundary. The Long Water and the Serpentine are generally considered to be part of one lake.

Trevor Square Trevor Square is an elongated garden square in Knightsbridge, London. It was designed in the 1810s chiefly by architect William Fuller Pocock, and the mid-rise, basemented houses fronting its two long sides, with slate mansard roofs are listed in the British protective and recognising scheme, and were built in the 1820s. The main stonemason employed was Lancelot Edward Wood after whom is named neighbouring street Lancelot Place (originally Petwin Place).

Exhibit A (art exhibition) Exhibit A was an art exhibition in the galleries of the Serpentine Gallery, London, from May 7—June 7, 1992 . Exhibit A is a collection of artworks from 1992 to 1992 .

Rock on Top of Another Rock Rock on Top of Another Rock is a sculpture by the artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss . It consists of one large rock balanced on top of another large rock .

Physical Energy (sculpture) Physical Energy is a bronze equestrian statue by English artist George Frederic Watts . Watts was principally a painter, but also worked on sculptures from the 1870s . It was intended to be Watts’s memorial to “unknown worth”

Frieze of Parnassus The Frieze of Parnassus is a large sculpted stone frieze encircling the podium, or base, of the Albert Memorial in London, England . The Albert Memorial was constructed in the 1860s in memory of Prince Albert, the husband of Queen Victoria .

Royal Albert Hall Organ The Royal Albert Hall Grand Organ is the second largest pipe organ in the UK . It was originally built by Henry “Father” Willis and most recently rebuilt by Mander Organs . The Albert Hall publishes a tongue-in-cheek Twitter account .

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