\paperw3360 \margr0\margl0\ATXph16380 \plain \fs20 \pard\tx3255\tx6525\tx9780\ATXts240\ATXbrdr0 \f1 \fs22 Completed in 1871, this huge concert hall was modelled on Italian amphit
heatres and was originally intended as a Hall of Arts and Science. When in 1868 \b \cf4 \ATXht13221000 Queen Victoria\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 laid the foundation stone, she changed its name to the Albert Hall in memory of her husband, \b \cf4 \ATXht10851000 Pr
ince Albert\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 , who had died of typhoid seven years earlier. It was the profits that arose from the \b \cf4 \ATXht10861000 Great Exhibition\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 of 1851 that provided the capital necessary for this building and others of the sa
me period in the area of South Kensington sometimes referred to as æAlbertopolisÆ.
