Your say.. about the Crystal Palace and our park

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- Melvyn Harrison Chairman

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#47 Victor Hillary February 06, 2012
When I was younger I remember a brass plaque near crossroads of Westow Hill/Westow St/Gypsy Hill/Central Hill. It stated that Queen Victoria stood there.

Also at the top of Milestone Road there was indeed a Milestone, perhaps 2 foot high by a foot wide.

Lastly the Police Box in Anerley Road/Anerley Hill.

Does anyone remember these?
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#46 Sandra July 14, 2011
I have the origional official programme of The Crystal Palace (priced 1/-) and a photo of my mother and her brother in front of a massive gun in 1920 at the Great Victory Exhibition. My Grandmother always told me stories about the glass palace and had a section of the glass fountain which was saved after the fire. I used to gaze through it as a child at the crystal colours and it was very heavy. In later years I was taken to see the dinosaurs and have a few photos of me sitting on them
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#45 patrick hodnett February 19, 2011
There was a great feeling of awe when i first went to visit this magical place. being able to walk along the terraces admireing the remains of what was once a marvellous work of architecture of its time. i had done a large amount of research and came across many photos around the time that the structure was stil standing,so it was somewhat of an exciting adventure to be able to identify what still remains of this iconic beautiful place through the photos that i obtained.i plan on taking many trips ups there. knowing that each time will feel like the first.it is just a shame that some people have no respect & choose to vandalise these ruins. my ony wish is that bromely council preserves this great wonder of the vicitorian age, as it has become part of english history that should never be forgotten.
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#44 Paul Maher December 29, 2010
I have always been interested by Crystal Palace as a historical building. Just to think that someone could think of something like that! Such a pity that it is no longer there and I doubt it could ever be rebuilt.
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#43 Brian D Robinson FZS November 28, 2010
What a wonderful website. I found it by chance. I have a postcard which may be of interest. The pc which is a real photograph shows a Prevosts Squirrel and the caption is "Robert Leadbetter's Crystal Palace Menagerie. Prevost Squirrel from the Malay Peninsula". The postage was 1/2d (halfpenny) so that dates it approx. I can't send a scan via this method but can do if you have an email address. I hope it is of interest to someone. Brian
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#42 Malcolm Baird July 24, 2010
I checked the Times online archive and found that the singer on April 23 1884 was the famous French Canadian, Madame Albani (1852-1905). The concert was a special one to mark St. George's day.
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#41 N Simon July 19, 2010
In a family diary which we own, the writer has an entry for 23rd Apri 1884 which reads:
"Mama went to the Crystal Palace in the morning and did not come back till late in the evening. It is the opening of some grand International Exhibition and there was a concert in which ..... sang."
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#40 Malcolm Baird July 13, 2010
Greetings to all. Just a quick word about message 33 in which Gordon Mays claims to be the illegitimate son of John Logie Baird.

Mr. Mays got in touch with me in November 2006 and I have carefully read his story. His detailed "recollections" of my father make no sense whatever. For example, my father did not have a perfect musical ear (he was tone deaf) and he never owned a dog -- he was fonder of cats. Mr.Mays claimed that my father was visited at Crescent Wood Road during the war by a stream of famous people including Winston Churchill and Walt Disney: it never happened. The plain truth is that my father was extremely busy developing colour and stereo (3D) television in the hope that they would be brought into use soon after the war. From 1939 onwards his health deteriorated and his finances went downhill. He died in June 1946.
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#39 Phil Dinnis June 17, 2010
I just wanted to share that my father was one of the first firefighters on the scene of the great fire.

He stood at the top of a turntable ladder hose in hand and always told me that overcome by heat he like many firefighters realized this could no be contained. My father died in 1980 but I will never forget his words and when i was growing up oh how i wished the fire had never happpened, I would have loved to have seen that building.

I was born in Church Rd in 1951 and have lived in Florida since 1994. Phil Dinnis
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#38 Alison Birks March 27, 2010
In the Taupo Museum there is a display of skeleton leaves, fruits and flowers. This was originally created by Elisa Emma King for the 1851 Great Exhibition. I am trying to find out more about the Artist, but also wondered if the Foundation new about this beautiful item?
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