while the original Crystal Palace in Hyde Park was officially called the Great Exhibition, its nickname (derived from Punch magazine referring to it as a "palace of very crystal") would only ...

The ventilators were rudimentary like Venetian blind shutters - a cord was pulled so that they were either open or shut." BBC History Best of History websites The British Museum The BBC is not ...

Built in 1850, the Crystal Palace was first located in London’s Hyde Park, where it housed the Great Exhibition of 1851. More than six million people visited the event—an estimated third of ...

East Dulwich is a superb area for a pub crawl, and there's no finer place to start, finish, or linger than the Great Exhibition. Named after the debut show at the Crystal Palace, the pub is itself ...

Getty Images The palace was originally built in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition in 1851 but was subsequently moved to what is now Crystal Palace Park The Grade-II* listed subway, which is ...

Commemorative plate of the Great Exhibition. The actual building was ... The seemingly fragile structure was nicknamed 'The Crystal Palace' by the satirical magazine Punch. In this print, the ...

Once the densest place on Earth, Kowloon Walled City was a chaotic, overcrowded urban area. It was demolished in 1993, and ...

Tourism is thought to be a great way to broaden the mind and expand a person’s horizons. Unfortunately, some of the greatest ...