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Feb 20, 2019 18:39:12   #
wrogers Loc: Kew Gardens, NY
 
Crystal Palace remnants

Crystal Palace was a large multistory glass and cast-iron structure built in Hyde Park, London in 1851. It used a clever modular construction, as seen in the sketch below. The temporary exhibition featured some 100,000 objects, displayed along a massive floor-space, by over 15,000 contributors. For half a year it attracted more than five million people who came to be informed, entertained, and impressed. As planned it was then razed. A full-scale replica was later built in South London's Sydenham Hill, which unfortunately burned to the ground in 1936. Today all that remains at the South London site are a small number of exterior stone remnants.

1. Wikipedia-provided image of long-ago sketch
2. Majestic stairway entrance
3. Headless statue and tree
4. Arched front wall
5 Mystery structures
6. Sphinx
7. Headless statue
8. Statue with head
9. Fragment statue
10. Crystal Palace Overground station (Photoshopped)

Crystal Palace sketch provided by Wikipedia
Crystal Palace sketch provided by Wikipedia...

Majestic entrance
Majestic entrance...

Headless statue
Headless statue...

Arched front wall
Arched front wall...

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Sphinx
Sphinx...

Headless statue
Headless statue...

Statue
Statue...

Statue fragment
Statue fragment...

Crystal Palace Overground station (Photoshopped)
Crystal Palace Overground station  (Photoshopped)...

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Feb 20, 2019 18:45:20   #
Bmac Loc: Long Island, NY
 
Nicely photographed.

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Feb 21, 2019 04:03:49   #
Doddy Loc: Barnard Castle-England
 
Nice ones.

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Feb 21, 2019 04:48:49   #
angler Loc: StHelens England
 
Good set.

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