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‘What to do with the Crystal Palace?’
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
Posted in London history, Parks & gardens, Victorian park estates
Tagged Alison Kay, Brighton and South Coast Railway, Crystal Palace at Sydenham, Crystal Palace Company, Crystal Palace Park, fire at the Crystal Palace, Great Exhibition of 1851, history of Penge, history of Sydenham, Jospeh Paxton, Leo Schuster, London, Samuel Laing, Sir Henry Buckland, The Crystal Palace, the Property Historian, William Cubitt
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