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by John Greatrex
15 Mar 2021 22:21
Forum: Town Cafe
Topic: Rebuilding Crystal Palace
Replies: 27
Views: 22555

Re: Rebuilding Crystal Palace

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 ...
by John Greatrex
15 Feb 2021 12:32
Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
Topic: THE NEW CRYSTAL PALACE
Replies: 3
Views: 5986

Re: THE NEW CRYSTAL PALACE

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 ...
by John Greatrex
18 Apr 2008 18:45
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Exhibition on Rebuilding Crystal Palace NOW ON
Replies: 85
Views: 74729

High Noon On The High Hill...June 7th 2008

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 ...
by John Greatrex
14 Apr 2008 21:37
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Exhibition on Rebuilding Crystal Palace NOW ON
Replies: 85
Views: 74729

A Poem Wot I Did Wrote PAXTON’S CRYSTAL PALACE CORNER

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 ...
by John Greatrex
10 Apr 2008 19:29
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Exhibition on Rebuilding Crystal Palace NOW ON
Replies: 85
Views: 74729

The Crystal Palace Corner

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
by John Greatrex
10 Apr 2008 07:19
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Exhibition on Rebuilding Crystal Palace NOW ON
Replies: 85
Views: 74729

The Crystal Palace Corner April 2008 Update

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 ...
by John Greatrex
5 Mar 2008 21:54
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Exhibition on Rebuilding Crystal Palace NOW ON
Replies: 85
Views: 74729

The Unveiling of The Crystal Palace Corner

Coming Soon To A Hilltop Near You !


12 noon Saturday 7th June 2008 :

The Unveiling of Paxton's Crystal Palace Corner