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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, Hyde Park. We've all heard of, and read about, London's Great Exhibition of 1851, organised by Prince Albert and Henry Cole, as the first 'World's Fair' to show off all the new ...
Learn more about the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851 during this course exploring the event using Victorian guidebooks, illustrations and ephemera from the Bi ...
THE historic Crystal Palace, which was once the largest glass structure in the world until destroyed by a fire in 1936, is to be rebuilt.
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 ...
Plans have been drawn up to build an exact 900,000 sq ft replica of the Victorian Crystal Palace, which housed a 19th century exhibition displaying the might and riches of the British Empire.
You might not be able to travel very far IRL right now, but thanks to some nifty virtual reality, you can now go back in time to 1851 to take a tour round Hyde Park’s Crystal Palace.