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Please to see a music video about the Crystal Palace

http://youtu.be/NGmQBZLDNDY

Phaeton

Oh good, that was either what I remember as a kid then, or the memory of the 'ship's bell' had lingered over the original setting & adhered to some other boarded up structure on the terraces. In those days you could also walk the High Level Station tunnel from end-to-end but you had to move pretty ...

Thanks. So that's it then, the bell shelter - naval memorial - just to the right of the bandstand in your 'Upper Terraces' postacard, with what looks like a flag pole to the south of the memorial?

That's where I said it was.

Thanks Terry & Annie,

But was it always at this precise location and if so, what are the pavilions shown amongst the palace fountains in the old photographs please? There is a larger one which looks like a bandstand but also a smaller one to its south?

http://img804 ...

I have no idea where the bell shelter stood in relation to the rest of the park / gardens, there must be a record of what became of that bell ... does not the bell shelter feature in the film 'The Pleasure Garden' (1953) ...?

There's a bell here!

"RNVR" - Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve - that ...

"Statue on Plinth #6 in 1967" yes, that must also be her - many thanks - she has sadly lost her head now. I have no idea where the bell shelter stood in relation to the rest of the park / gardens, there must be a record of what became of that bell ... does not the bell shelter feature in the film ...

Possibly Plinth 7 here? 12 pics down.

http://sydenham.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1538

If not, maybe one of the other photo's listed in that interesting thread :D

Good luck.
Sue

Thanks Sue,

Could well be!

It is dreadfully sad what has become of the palace gardens - why on earth weren ...

Hi,

Does anyone have a picture (or a description) of this statue before it was vandalised please?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learn ... alace6.jpg

Thanks,

P