Category Archives: Parks & gardens

The houses of Crystal Palace Park – new pamphlet for charity

Posted on May 10, 2011 by
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The lovely Melvyn Harrison and people at the Crystal Palace Foundation have long kept a watchful eye over the heritage and development of Crystal Palace Park. Recently they asked if they could reproduce my London Journal research article on the … Continue reading →

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‘What to do with the Crystal Palace?’

Posted on January 7, 2011 by

What better time to appreciate second chances than at the the beginning of a new year. The Crystal Palace [a name of fairy tale splendor, if ever I heard one] sparkled as the stage for Britain’s Great Exhibition of 1851 but … Continue reading →

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Brief history of park villa estates

Posted on October 6, 2010 by

I left South London a few years ago to work ‘up north’ and now live in Southport (near Liverpool), which has a seriously delicious Victorian housing stock. The other thing Merseyside has in common with my previous haunt is substantial … Continue reading →

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The beginnings of an obsession

Posted on October 5, 2010 by

Several years back, before children and a lectureship at Lancaster University beckoned, I bought a flat in London on Crystal Palace Park Road. It was a neo-gothic, red brick villa and its garden backed onto Crystal Palace Park (of dinosaur … Continue reading →

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