Palaces · London
The Crystal Palace
In or near Thornton Heath.
The Crystal Palace — former building originally in Hyde Park, London, 1854 relocated to Bromley, South London.
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About
The Crystal Palace is a palace in london. Established 1851. (Glasshouse for the 1851 Great Exhibition in London.) Wikipedia notes: "The Crystal Palace was a cast iron and plate glass structure, originally built in Hyde Park, London, to house the Great Exhibition of 1851. The exhibition took place from 1 May to 15 October 1851, and more than 14,000 exhibitors from around the world gathered in its 990,000-square-foot (92,000 m2) exhibition space to display examples of technology developed in the Industrial Revolution.". Coordinates 51.4223°, -0.0758°. Sources are credited at the bottom of this page.
- Coordinates
- 51.4223, -0.0758
- Established
- 1851
Sources
- wikidata: Q202902 (CC0)
- wikipedia: The Crystal Palace (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: Crystal Palace from the northeast from Dickinson's Comprehensive Pictures of the Great Exhibition of 1851. 1854.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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