Maybe, for fans of ornate Victorian subways at least ….
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-59966872
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-59966872
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[Albion] Crystal Palace - worth a visit?
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Uh_huh_him
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- Sep 28, 2011
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So will this renovation be finished before, or after, the new stand development down the road?
schmunk
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"The Crystal Palace was destroyed by fire in November 1936"...
Cowfold Seagull
Fan of the 17 bus
It was, l'd love to have seen it actually, a magnificent building by all accounts.
Burnt their own town! Nothing changes!
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I only recently found out that it was actually built in Hyde Park originally for the Great Exhibition and only later moved south of the river.
As a kid I lived not far from there; it was universally known as the gluesniffers tunnel by the local kids and was terrifying as local punks (showing my age here) used to sniff glue there and get off their heads. Us young uns would dare each other to go and run through.
Both my paternal grandparents remembered watching it from two different vantage points before they had met
My Dad (from Thornton Heath) also remembered being taken outside to see the glow of the fire. The tower apparently was all that survived and that was demolished at the start of WW2 as it was deemed to be too much of useful landmark for the Luftwaffe.
Coming from that neck of the woods I always liked going to the park as a boy, especially to see the dinosaurs and play in the maze. You can still see the ruins of the Palace foundations, and my Dad always said how magnificent it was. There seem to be very few photographs of it though, I think I've only found about half a dozen when I've searched before.
Anyway, good news about this restoration.