He encouraged an exhibition in its handsome building ... christened what was formerly Albert's folly a "Crystal Palace." It caught on. The structure, and the preparations that went on around ...

And the sparkling Crystal Palace, which had housed the wonders of the age, was shifted to south London, where it gave its name to a whole neighbourhood. The Great Exhibition’s legacy is immense.

The building will be made suitable for permanently remaining on the site and will in every way outshine the Crystal ... Great Eastern will be able to find profitable employment during the ...

Invention allowed rapid construction of Crystal Palace before Great Exhibition READ MORE: 10 'at risk' Victorian and Edwardian sites we're desperate to save It was one of Britain's greatest ever ...

163 years ago today, a great milestone; below, historian Peter Manning writes about the first-ever reported football match of the Crystal Palace Club... It is 2.30pm on the afternoon of Saturday, 15th ...