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The \u003cb\u003eCrystal Palace\u003c/b\u003e and the High Level Station, from the Illustrated London News, 30 September 1865. Wren and long-tailed tit, from W. Aldridge, Wild Birds of."},{"page_id":"PT134","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eCrystal Palace\u003c/b\u003e stamped its name on the area and speeded its development. Between 1854 and 1884, it attracted an average of two million visitors a year. In addition to its orchestra of a thousand musicians, it also required ushers\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PT135","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eCrystal Palace\u003c/b\u003e provided a substantial and much-needed injection of cash. As early as 1854, the governors had commissioned the Estate\u0026#39;s surveyor, Charles Barry, to report on ways to increase revenue while preserving the rural character\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PT137","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eCrystal Palace\u003c/b\u003e was dictated by the interests of the directors of the company that ran it. One, Leo Schuster, owned Penge Place, and sold it to the company, while he and the chairman, Samuel Laing, also served on."},{"page_id":"PT138","snippet_text":"... Palace to benefit from the additional traffic it would attract. Parliamentary approval was granted in July 1853, and ... \u003cb\u003eCrystal Palace\u003c/b\u003e Parade, directly in front of the exhibition hall. A subsidiary company, the \u003cb\u003eCrystal Palace\u003c/b\u003e\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PT139","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eCrystal Palace\u003c/b\u003e spur, and its effect on the landscape, that troubled him and the governors. Their objections succeeded. 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Knowing that Parliament was unlikely to approve both plans, the Estate governors decided to throw\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PT143","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eCrystal Palace\u003c/b\u003e Gas Company to provide street lighting in Norwood.18 The following year, the Lambeth Lighting Committee recommended that the parish accept an offer from the \u003cb\u003eCrystal Palace\u003c/b\u003e Gas Company to supply street lighting to those\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PT147","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eCrystal Palace\u003c/b\u003e Bird Show in 1887), published a series of articles on the birds of the area in the Norwood Review; in 1885, they were collected in a small book, A Gossip on the Wild Birds of Norwood and \u003cb\u003eCrystal Palace\u003c/b\u003e District\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PT149","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eCrystal Palace\u003c/b\u003e. The triangle of woodland between \u003cb\u003eCrystal Palace\u003c/b\u003e Parade and Farquhar Road had been mostly given over to housing, with only a few fragments of Vicar\u0026#39;s Oak Wood remaining. To the north were Telegraph Hill, One Tree Hill\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PT150","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eCrystal Palace\u003c/b\u003e looming over it all. Several of his photographs include parts of the North Wood. He photographed his wife, Alexandrine Zola, at the bottom of Hermitage Road, by one of the surviving oaks of Great Stakepit Coppice. He\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PT152","snippet_text":"... Palace, Epping Forest and Wanstead Flats. 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He had not seen a nuthatch or tree creeper in the woods since 1901, and a\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PT159","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eCrystal Palace\u003c/b\u003e.9 Over the coming months, Zeppelins killed ten people in Albany Road, Camberwell, six at Ilderton Road in Bermondsey, and fourteen, including nine children, at Hither Green in the final airship raid on London. By the\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PT160","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eCrystal Palace\u003c/b\u003e High Level Line were suspended; they did not restart until March 1919.10 In December 1917, the Dulwich wood-keeper E. 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Because of its proximity to houses, the south tower was carefully dismantled during the winter of 1940–1; the north tower, which\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PT169","snippet_text":"... , a ballistic missile first launched in September. On 25 November 1944 one landed on a branch of Woolworth\u0026#39;s at New Cross, killing 168 people in the worst incident of the campaign; on 15 March 1945, nine were killed in \u003cb\u003eCrystal Palace\u003c/b\u003e."},{"page_id":"PT170","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eCrystal Palace\u003c/b\u003e Road. The last of the V2 rockets to strike London fell in Orpington on 27 March, killing one person. By the time hostilities ended, wrote George Brown, \u0026#39;parts of the ancient village [of Dulwich], which goes back beyond\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PT173","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eCrystal Palace\u003c/b\u003e site, which lay just outside the county boundary, \u0026#39;might well be considered as being part of a recreation and sports area serving South London. This would include the Dulwich Common area to the north, and its provision\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PT174","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eCrystal Palace\u003c/b\u003e High Level Railway – much of today\u0026#39;s Sydenham Hill Wood reserve – is designated residential, presumably because it had already been built on, and the gardens of these Victorian villas were not considered open space.5 Many\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PT175","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eCrystal Palace\u003c/b\u003e to attract passengers, the High Level Railway ceased to be viable; the last train ran on 20 September 1954, a century after Queen Victoria had opened the \u003cb\u003eCrystal Palace\u003c/b\u003e at Sydenham. The rails were lifted in 1957, and the\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PT176","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eCrystal Palace\u003c/b\u003e aerial on the peak of the Norwood Ridge, where Brunel\u0026#39;s north tower had stood. It began transmitting in March 1956 when only half complete; on reaching its full height of 708 feet (216 metres) in December 1957, it would\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PT186","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eCrystal Palace\u003c/b\u003e High Level station, torn down in 1961 after the line was closed, was larger, flatter and far easier to develop. With advice from the Dulwich Society, they formed the Farquhar Road Area Residents\u0026#39; Association, and\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PT201","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eCrystal Palace\u003c/b\u003e) were printed, and an exhibition entitled \u0026#39;The Great North Wood: The Story of a South London Landscape\u0026#39; opened at the Horniman Museum in December 1995, using photographs, dioramas and maps to demonstrate the former extent\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PT205","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eCrystal Palace\u003c/b\u003e, following the route set out in the Friends of the Great North Wood\u0026#39;s \u0026#39;Screaming Alice\u0026#39; leaflet through One Tree Hill, Camberwell New Cemetery, Horniman Gardens Nature Trail and Sydenham Hill Wood, with a spur leading\u0026nbsp;..."}],"search_query_escaped":"Crystal Palace"},{});</script></div></div></div><script>(function() {var href = window.location.href;if (href.indexOf('?') !== -1) {var parameters = href.split('?')[1].split('&');for (var i = 0; i < parameters.length; i++) {var param = parameters[i].split('=');if (param[0] == 'focus') {var elem = document.getElementById(param[1]);if (elem) {elem.focus();}}}}})();</script>