The main reason for the weird mish-mash of park features is that back in 1851, the park was chosen as the new site for The Crystal Palace, which had held the world-famous Great Exhibition in Hyde ...

The Crystal Palace was a huge glass and iron structure originally built in 1851 for the Great Exhibition held in London's Hyde Park. Prince Albert, head of the Society of Arts, had the idea of an ...

On the night of Nov. 30, 1936, just after the clock struck 8 p.m., a Londoner made a harrowing discovery—the Crystal Palace, the colossal building constructed of glass and iron that sat atop ...

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 event took place in the Crystal Palace, a 990,000-square-foot building of cast iron and plate glass originally located in Hyde Park. And it was built in an incredible 190 days.

Millions flocked to the 1851 Great Exhibition in Hyde Park to marvel at the world’s treasures — from priceless diamonds ... My first memory of London is a visit to Crystal Palace Park, aged ...

After the Great Exhibition, it was disassembled (at great cost) and moved from Hyde Park to an affluent South London suburb, where it stayed until it accidentally burned down in 1936.

It was one of Britain's greatest ever structures, constructed in London's Hyde Park in just 190 days between 1850 and 1851 - in time for Prince Albert's Great Exhibition.

The original Crystal Palace was designed for the 1851 Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, London, and moved to the south eastern neighborhood of Bromley shortly after. There it was used as a glittering ...

Hyde Park's Great Exhibition had predominantly been one big showboating sesh for the British Empire, ... London's own Crystal Palace would subsequently suffer from two major fires: ...