Sydenham Town Forum

I have recently had the pleasure of discovering the above correspondence. Thank you to all the contributors for their heartfelt and sincerely held opinions concerning the parkland abutting Crystal Palace Parade. Should you wish to keep updated with regard to my hopes of ‘Rebuilding Crystal Palace’ p...

Hi Lee Hope you and all who live near the CP2 site in South London are keeping well and taking care. I’ve just been catching up with the Forum comments about 1....the Paxton Crystal Palace Corner (pcpc) .....and 2.. my stand up, three minute comedy knockabout with sit down comedian ‘Terry Tibbs’ ......

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7429156.stm

P r e s s R e l e a s e - A p r i l 18 2008 UNVEILING THE CRYSTAL PALACE CORNER Joseph Paxton (1803 – 1865) came from being a humble farmer’s boy to being appointed in 1826 head gardener at Chatsworth, the stately Derbyshire home of the 6th Duke of Devonshire. Here he began to design greenhouses out...

PAXTON’S CRYSTAL PALACE CORNER With Albert’s help did Mr. Pax (Around some trees they couldn’t axe) His worldly pleasure dome design: The greatest greenhouse ever seen; A glass cathedral on the green Beside the crystal Serpentine In Hyde Park 1851. But not for long. Unbolted. Gone. By horse and cart...

Dear Ritchie

For further information about THE CRYSTAL PALACE CORNER if you go to http://www.crystalpalacecampaign.org and scroll down to my January 2008 Corner update it shows some photos of what was and what is to be!
Thanks for the inquiry

John Greatrex
MD Great Exhibitions Ltd

1 The first five 3ft high pieces of The Crystal Palace Corner are now bolted in place on the top site with grateful thanks to George Irwin's Fairground Folk for their able bodied assistance. 2. CPF Construction Ltd have volunteered to erect the 17ft colunms nearer the official launch date of Saturda...

Coming Soon To A Hilltop Near You !


12 noon Saturday 7th June 2008 :

The Unveiling of Paxton's Crystal Palace Corner