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 ...

The Crystal Palace’s second home on Sydenham Hill has ... the surviving treasures of 1851. Londonist: Time Machine likes to travel forwards through the years as well as backwards.

Yet there was no disorder among the crowds swelling London, nor any in the Crystal Palace, even when, on October 7, 1851, 109,000 people came through the building, many having arrived by ship from ...

163 years ago today, a great milestone; below, historian Peter Manning writes about the first-ever reported football match of the Crystal Palace Club... It is 2.30pm on the afternoon of Saturday, 15th ...

On May 1 1851 Queen Victoria opened the Great Exhibition ... The seemingly fragile structure was nicknamed 'The Crystal Palace' by the satirical magazine Punch. In this print, the two naves ...