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 ...

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 ...

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 building would come to be known as the Crystal Palace, ... In 1851, 19 acres of London’s Hyde Park were suddenly transformed. Over the course of just 19 months, ...

The Crystal Palace Dinosaurs are the world’s first attempt to model prehistoric animals at full scale. Richard Baker/In Pictures via Getty Images When the Crystal Palace and Park opened in south ...

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.

Half a million people came to Hyde Park to watch celebrated aeronaut Charles Spencer take to the skies in a hot air balloon and 20,000 paid to enter the Crystal Palace on the first day alone ...

The Crystal Palace was originally constructed for the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, in the centre of London, before being dismantled and rebuilt in south London in 1854, where it remained until ...

The Crystal Palace was once the world’s largest building. ... after its deconstruction in Hyde Park and subsequent rebuilding in south London in 1854, the Crystal Palace burned down in 1936.

The club, founded in 1905, played its games in the grounds of Joseph Paxton’s magnificent glass Crystal Palace, which had been moved from Hyde Park to Sydenham Hill after hosting the Great ...