Crystal Palace (London)

Crystal Palace is a residential district in south London, England, named after the former landmark Crystal Palace, which stood on this site from 1854 to 1936. The district is located twelve kilometers south-east of Charing Cross, and offers impressive views over the British capital. A constituency and Crystal Palace Park are entirely within the London Borough of Bromley. The residential area has no fixed limits and is on the territory of five London boroughs and three postal code areas.

The district is one of the highest points of London. On the 112-meter high elevation, there are two TV masts that make this collection a landmark that can be seen from many places in London.

• 4.1 television
• 4.2 Movies
• 4.3 Music

• 6.1 roads
• 6.2 Railway
• 6.3 bus

• 8.1 Bibliography

History

The ridge and the historic oak The Vicars Oak ( at today's intersection of Church Road and Westow Hill ) were used to mark the boundaries of parishes. Dis meant that Crystal Palace spanned the boundaries of five London boroughs name: Bromley, Croydon, Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham. The former boundary between Surrey and Kent led by the district and from 1889 to 1965 was the area on the southeastern border of the County of London. It included parts of Kent and Surrey until 1889 and then parts of Kent, London and Surrey between 1889-1965.

For centuries, was located on the grounds of the Great North Wood, a great natural oak forest that formed a natural border to the southern edge of the ever-growing city of London. A local legend says that the Golden Hinde, the ship of Sir Francis Drake, of wood was built by this forest. Until the 19th century, the area was a popular tourist area of ​​London's population, it was overbuilt. It was also a favorite place of the Roma, many local street names and the names of many pubs indicate this. The district still has forest areas. The third quarter of the 19th century brought the Crystal Palace and the railway.

The Crystal Palace

The Crystal Palace was a cast-iron and glass building originally built for the Great Exhibition of 1851 in Hyde Park. Due to the great success of the exhibition, the building was dismantled and rebuilt in a modified and enlarged form on the railing of Penge Place Farm on the Sydenham Hill again. The Crystal Palace drew visitors over 70 years of long.

The Sydenham Hill is 109 meters one of the highest points in London. Due to its size and the elevated location of the Crystal Palace was seen nearly all of London. This meant that the residential area was known around the building as Crystal Palace instead of Sydenham Hill. The Crystal Palace was destroyed on November 30, 1936 by fire. Now is the Crystal Palace Park on its site.

Today's state

In Crystal Palace, there are still a lot of its impressive Victorian architecture, although the architectural styles are mixed. Many of the Victorian mansions have since been converted into smaller units.

The Crystal Palace Triangle, formed by Westow Street, Westow Hill and the Church Road, offers a large number of restaurants, and is also a local shopping center with some independent shops.

Crystal Palace Park

The Crystal Palace Park is a Victorian pleasure ground which is used for many events. After the sculptor Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins by Charles Darwin was given a Megatherium skull, he built the first life-size models of the (then) newly-discovered dinosaurs and other extinct animals in the park. On the site there was a football stadium where the FA Cup final was played from 1895 to 1914 as well as the Games of the London County Cricket Club until its dissolution. Here is since 1964, the National Sports Centre.

The spacious grounds also the Crystal Palace Circuit was on the prewar motorcycle race and after the 1950s took place car racing. Parts of the track in 2005 to access roads, the racetrack itself fell into disuse after 1972. For the computer game Grand Prix Legends, the track was digitally recreated.

The park is also a large public park in London. The park was first later managed by the LCC and the GLC, but with the abolition of the GLC in control of the park to the London Borough of Bromley was transferred in 1986. The park is located entirely in the London Borough of Bromley, the residents of the surrounding communities felt by but disadvantaged. It was long argued over whether the site will be developed or, as before, to be used as a park.

As part of the bid for the Olympic Games 2012 2005 took over the Mayor of London and the London Development Agency ( LDA) control of the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre. The Center is now managed on their behalf by Greenwich Leisure.

The park is located in the highest part of the London Clay ridge, located at the end of Sydenham Hill, of Beulah Hill and Claygate Ridge. From this ridge you can see in the north central London, in the east, the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge and Greenwich, and South Croydon and the North Downs. Recently, many Ring-necked Parakeets live in the park, especially in the trees around the cafe and playground. These birds are seen more often in South London, but nowhere in such great numbers as in Crystal Palace Park. The park is one of the starting points of the Green Chain Walk, to places such as Chislehurst, Erith, the Thames Barrier and Thamesmead leads.

Media

TV

The two transmission towers Crystal Palace (222 m) and Croydon (152 m) stand on the mountain in Upper Norwood. The towers appear in the level and organization similar to the Crystal Palace mast, built in 1956, but is at a slightly higher location. Today's Croydon tower was built in 1962.

Movies

Charlie million from dust contains a scene that was shot on the track and field facility.

The Pleasure Garden in 1953 turned around the ruins of the Crystal Palace

Music

In the park a Outdor rave for the music video of # 1 hits in the Setting Sun The Chemical Brothers was filmed.

In the spring of 2007, the Anglo- Dutch band LORD brought the mini-album Fire & Glass: A Norwood Tragedy out, acting on the history of the Crystal Palace.

Sports clubs

• Crystal Palace F. C. (Football )
• London Olympians ( American football )

Transport

Access roads to the area are the A212, A214, A234 and the A2199.

Railway

The Crystal Palace railway station is connected by the Southern trains to the stations Victoria and London Bridge. She is one of the few stations that are located in two London Transport Zones: Zones 3 and 4

Transport for London has begun with the southern extension of the East London Line. This is to create the connection to the Docklands and Shoreditch after its renaming in London Overground East London Railway from 2011. This is done by connecting to the North London Line.

Moreover, there is again the hope that a tram line to Croydon can be financed, which could become operational in a few years.

Bus

Christal Palaces is the start or end station of various London bus routes.

Nearby places

• Gipsy Hill
• Sydenham
• Penge
• Dulwich
• Anerley
• West Norwood
• Upper Norwood