A selection of cards published at the time in connection with exhibitions held in and around the Earls Court Exhibition Centre in the late 1890s and early 1900s.
Earls Court Exhibition Centre
The Earls Court Exhibition Centre was a major international exhibition and events venue in London. It replaced exhibition and entertainment grounds, originally opened in 1887, with an “art modern” structure built between 1935 and 1937 by specialist American architect C. Howard Crane.
The notion of introducing education and entertainment to the area was promoted by John Robinson Whitley, an entrepreneur who used the land as a showground for five years from 1887. Whitley did not profit from his efforts, yet his desire had decided the future of Earl's Court and its purpose in later years. The Great Wheel, a Ferris wheel, was created for Imre Kiralfy's Empire of India Exhibition in 1895. A plaque in the EC press centre commemorated some of these facts and that the reclusive Queen Victoria was an occasional visitor to the shows. Kiralfy had the neighbouring Empress Hall built to seat 6,000 people and then had the Earls Court grounds converted in the style of the 1893 Chicago White City for the Columbian Exposition, and went on to found nearby White City in 1908.
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