It was one of Britain's greatest ever structures, constructed in London's Hyde Park in just 190 days between 1850 and 1851 - in time for Prince Albert's Great Exhibition.

And the sparkling Crystal Palace, which had housed the wonders of the age, was shifted to south London, where it gave its name to a whole neighbourhood. The Great Exhibition’s legacy is immense.

The Crystal Palace was a huge exhibition building constructed in London's Hyde Park between 1850 and 1851. It hosted the Great Exhibition of 1851 - an event showcasing sculptures, machinery ...

The design competition for what would become the Crystal Palace was launched in March 1850, with a deadline four weeks later, and the actual, fully constructed building opened on May 1, 1851.

Crystal Palace during the Great Exhibition, London, 1851. Work on Crystal Palace began on August 1, 1850 and, defying skeptics, Joseph Paxton completed the magnificent structure just in time for ...

So, who are Crystal Palace? In short, a Premier League football club based in south-east London, although it says much about ...

The Great Exhibition of 1851 was held in the Crystal Palace, which was initially built in Hyde Park before its relocation to south London In the third in our series of archive pieces celebrating ...

New research has solved the mystery of how the Crystal Palace in London, which at the time was the world’s largest building, was constructed in only 190 days and completed just in time for the ...

Built in 1850, the Crystal Palace was first located in London’s Hyde Park, where it housed the Great Exhibition of 1851. More than six million people visited the event —an estimated third of ...

New research has solved the mystery of how the Crystal Palace in London, ... was constructed in only 190 days and completed just in time for the start of the Great Exhibition of 1851.