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Inn Notting Hill - Bayswater
(8 minutes walking distance)
Following the success of the Great Exhibition of 1851,
the Hall was conceived by Albert, the Prince Consort,
as the centrepiece of the proposed development of a range
of national institutions - cultural, scientific and academic
- that for the first time would be located on a single
site.
Externally the Italianite facade of the Hall, of red brick
and teracotta, is graced by the famous 800ft mosaic frieze.
The auditorium is both massive and graceful (its length
is 219ft and its width 185ft) and is crowned by a dome
(weighing 400 tonnes) that, when raised, was the largest
in the world. The Royal Albert Hall, which is located
close to South Kensington tube (Circle, District and Piccadilly
lines) is now a prime London venue for concerts and musical
events of all kinds from the BBC's Promenade Concerts
to pop concerts but can also be privately hired, as it
was for Andrew Lloyd Webber's 50th birthday extravaganza.
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