Royal Albert Hall
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The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, London, England. It has a seating capacity of 5,272.
Royal Albert Hall from Kensington Gardens
The Albert Memorial is located opposite the Royal Albert Hall, within the same area around Kensington Gardens.
The Royal Albert Hall in London was officially opened on 29 March 1871 by Queen Victoria and her eldest son, the Prince of Wales, in honor of her late husband, Prince Albert.
Royal Albert Hall, viewed from the south looking north towards Hyde Park, 1986.
Albert Memorial
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The Albert Memorial is a Gothic Revival ciborium in Kensington Gardens, London, designed and dedicated to the memory of Prince Albert of Great Britain. Located directly north of the Royal Albert Hall,
Royal Albert Hall
…her husband, Prince Albert, who had died six years earlier. It forms the practical part of a memorial to the Prince Consort; the decorative part is the Albert Memorial directly to the north in Kensington Gardens, now separated from the hall by Kensington Gore. In 1851, the Great Exhibition, organised by Prince Albert…
The Albert Memorial from the south side
The memorial statue of Albert, by John Henry Foley and Thomas Brock
The Albert Memorial, Manchester (Thomas Worthington and Matthew Noble, 1865)
The Frieze of Parnassus — sculpted tribute to poets, painters, and philosophers adorning the base of the memorial statue of Albert.