The Crystal Palace was a wonder of the world, built for the Great Exhibition of 1851. It was the largest glass building ever ...

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Prince Albert had assumed the presidency of the Society of Arts, in John Adam Street below the Strand, in 1845, when he was not quite 26. Its modest goal was to encourage technology and manufactures.

Invention allowed rapid construction of Crystal Palace before Great Exhibition READ MORE: 10 'at risk' Victorian and Edwardian sites we're desperate to save It was one of Britain's greatest ever ...

Commemorative plate of the Great Exhibition. The actual building was three times the length of St Paul's Cathedral.The Great Exhibition of the works of industry of all nations was conceived by ...

The Crystal Palace burnt down in 1936, but after the devastating fire one underground structure still remained. It was the ...

Commemorative plate of the Great Exhibition. The actual building was three times the length of St Paul's Cathedral.The Great Exhibition of the works of industry of all nations was conceived by ...