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, diamonds, ...
The UK’s oldest and most iconic venues continue to shine as magical destinations for Christmas celebrations, offering a rich ...
Victor Schilt The calculating machine of the Swiss clockmaker Victor (or Viktor) Schilt (1822-1880) was exhibited in 1851 at ...
A church which featured on a Chemical Brothers' album cover was in "desperate need of support" and has been added to the Historic England at risk register. It was among 29 buildings in the East of ...
Network Rail engineers have repaired brickwork and sprayed concrete along 1,282 metres of the 1851-built Ore tunnel ... Peckham Rye and Crystal Palace areas of south London to improve reliability ...
who designed the Crystal Palace, which housed the Great Exhibition of 1851. A spokesperson for Historic England, which champions England's heritage, said: "The Eastern Peach House is showing signs of ...
Richard Owen commissioned Waterhouse Hawkins to create life-sized models of dinosaurs for the 1851 Great Exhibition, which later found a home in Crystal Palace Park. The first articulated skeleton of ...
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Highlights include Dan Graham’s model for a glass pavilion, original newspapers, and facsimiles of Joseph Paxton’s original 1851 drawings of the Crystal Palace; the pavilion designed by Lucio Costa ...
Near Hastings, engineers repaired brickwork and sprayed concrete along 1,282 metres of the 1851-built Ore tunnel to keep the railway ... this latest phase of signalling upgrades in the Crystal Palace, ...
In 1851, over 6 million people visited Hyde Park to see the ... Today, the site is occupied by sports pitches – you can book a game of football or a round of tennis where the Crystal Palace once stood ...