. Walks in London . Alford House. No. 49 Princes Gate, the house of Mr. , contairsthe Peacock Room, decorated by Mr. Whistler in walls and ceiling are entirely covered with peacockiridescence, while the separate peacocks on the shuttersare full of nature and beauty, and still more those indefiance over the sideboard, which express a tall brick chimneys and gables on the left belong to THE ALBERT HALL. 453 the highly picturesque Lowther Lodge (Hon. W. Lowther),an admirable work of Norman Shaw. All along this road London has been moving out of townfor the la
. Walks in London . Alford House. No. 49 Princes Gate, the house of Mr. , contairsthe Peacock Room, decorated by Mr. Whistler in walls and ceiling are entirely covered with peacockiridescence, while the separate peacocks on the shuttersare full of nature and beauty, and still more those indefiance over the sideboard, which express a tall brick chimneys and gables on the left belong to THE ALBERT HALL. 453 the highly picturesque Lowther Lodge (Hon. W. Lowther),an admirable work of Norman Shaw. All along this road London has been moving out of townfor the last twenty years, but has never succeeded in gettinginto the country. At Kensington Gore^ where Wilberforce resided from1808 to 1821, and held his anti-slavery meetings, andwhere Lady Blessington lived afterwards, the centre of a. Lowther Lodgrc. brilliant circle, the line of houses and villas is broken by theAlbert Hall, a vast elliptical building of brick, with terra-cotta decorations. It was commenced in 1867, and is usedas a music-hall. This huge pile has no beauty, except inthe porches, which are exceedingly grandiose in form, andeffective in shadow and colour. [Behind the Albert Hall is a vast quadrangular space,occupied (1877) by the Horticultural Gardens^ and sur- 454 IVALKS IN LONDON. rounded by Exhibition Galleries. At its south-eastern angle,facing Cromwell Road, is the South Kensington Museum,See Ch. XII.] Opposite the Hall, marking the site of the Crystal Palaceof 1851, and of the Exhibition whose success was sogreatly due to his exertions, is the Albert Memorial^ erectedfrom designs of Sir Gilbert Scott to the ever-honouredmemory of the Prince Consort, Albert of Saxe Gotna {pb,Dec. 14, 1861). Here, beneath a somewhat flimsy imita-tion of a Gothic shrine of the thirteenth century, the seatedstatue
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