Amazing Places In London That You Can't Visit: The Crystal Palace

[Shenanigans_]

I live near Crystal Palace, they actually named the nearby town after it! I can confirm, it is just a massive flat bit of grass that kids play football on and eat fried chicken, my friends and I visit after school sometimes.

But If you ask me, Crystal Palace park is still a great place to explore if you’re a history nerd in South London!

-There’s a section of the park with a massive sports stadium, olympic level swimming pool
-There’s a museum dedicated to the history of the park (it’s more often closed than it is open sadly)
- There’s these infamous yet hilarious models of what the Victorians believed dinosaurs looked like
-Theres a giant, floating, metal water stage that used to host artists like Bob Marley in the 80’s
- There’s a small farm, and agricultural collage
-At Christmas, there’s a park-wide light show where they construct a recreation of what the palace would have looked like, and they project things onto it
-There’s a hedge maze & pedal-os

[starlinguk]

If you want to see Ninive now, you can go to the Pergamon Museum in Berlin.

[gypsydildopunks]

Always wondered why a football team is named Crystal Palace. Thanks, British Lady. You are the best

[pcbassoon]

I went to London last year and the first thing I wanted to see when we started planning was the Crystal Palace. I googled it to see where it was and was disappointed to find it had burned down almost 90 years ago. Then, I told my dad we were going and he immediately said, "I know where you need to go! Prince Albert had this big exhibition..." It's a shame it didn't survive. I think tons of people would still want to see it today.

[SonsOfLorgar]

The style of glass house construction used in the crystal palace, is however, represented in a smaller scale, as the main greenhouses of the Royal botanic gardens at Kew 😁

[rodpope]

Very sad that we can no longer witness this amazing building

[kikidevine]

There's also a (to our eyes) bizarre collection of dinosaur sculptures in the park. At the time they were created they were based on cutting edge research.

[jpthomas]

There's a replica of the Crystal Palace in Dallas, TX for some reason. It's next to the freeway and it's a commercial building.

[kashigata]

I used to live in West Norwood, so close to Crystal Palace. It kills me that the bloody palace wasn’t there any more. I did love the Crystal Palace dinosaurs, though!

[courteouscarpenter]

I came across pictures of this when I was in high school just searching old places this random in all Google search and this is one of the places that made me fall in love with architecture. I actually went to college study civil engineering didn't work out but because of stuff like this. Absolutely astonishing building

[limerence]

I love victorian glass buildings. If i ever get to build a mansion one half will cool old style gothic manor, the other half will be a giant glass building filled with plants and multi tiered swimming pools. There will be a glass dome or several where you can stargaze or sleep and don't have to worry about getting rained on.

[spyk_]

That odd statue and big flat bit of grass are part of a very nice park thank you very much

[amandah]

That's amazing! I love that they built around whole trees, that's fantastic!

[OhSkyeLanta]

I feel like there’s a pretty good mystery novel in there about “how the crystal palace burned down”

[ambergris]

I wish Crystal Palace would be rebuilt. It's an amazing feat of engineering, would still look incredible today, and I am sure would bring a lot of tourists!

[stevena]

Could have been worse. Could have burned down, fallen over THEN sank into the swamp.

[pulaski]

Eleven years earlier Paxton built a similar, massive glass house at Chatsworth, though it was smaller than the Crystal Palace. It was demolished in 1920 because it had been unheated during WWI, many of the plants had died, and was deemed too expensive to restore and maintain.

[doctorwhouse]

The funny thing about shorts getting uploaded out of order from TT is we got Part 1 after 2.

That or J. is a Star War's fan.😅

[texan]

There is a replica of the Crystal Palace in Dallas Texas, named the Infomart.

[seandyckhoff]

I really love this ladies videos, I love history and especially history in London where I live