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The ground also holds the attendance record of 37,774 for a Division Four match (now League Two in the English football pyramid), when Crystal Palace played local rivals Millwall in 1961. [ 32 ] Selhurst Park recorded the lowest attendance for a Premier League game – 3,039 for Wimbledon v Everton on 26 January 1993.
Crystal Palace Park is a large Victorian pleasure ground occupying much of the land within Crystal Palace and is one of the major London public parks. The park was maintained by the LCC and later the GLC , but with the abolition of the GLC in 1986, control of the entire park was given to the London Borough of Bromley. [ 21 ]
The Crystal Palace was a cast iron and plate glass structure, originally built in Hyde Park, London, to house the Great Exhibition of 1851. The exhibition took place from 1 May to 15 October 1851, and more than 14,000 exhibitors from around the world gathered in its 990,000-square-foot (92,000 m 2) exhibition space to display examples of technology developed in the Industrial Revolution.
The actor Neil Morrissey developed Palace Ale, a beer on sale in the ground, [99] while fellow actor Bill Nighy is patron of the Crystal Palace Children's Charity (CPSCC). [100] Radio DJ David Jensen is chairman of the Crystal Palace Vice Presidents Club, [ 101 ] and acted as spokesman for the CPFC 2010 consortium during their takeover bid for ...
Recreation ground with horticultural features and remains of the Croydon Canal: Crystal Palace Park: 80 hectares (200 acres) Crystal Palace [1] Elmstead Wood 34.3 hectares (85 acres) Elmstead [2] Goddington Park 64 hectares (160 acres) Orpington: sports and wooded areas Harvington Sports Ground 47.25 hectares (116.8 acres) Beckenham: woodlands ...
Crystal Palace Park is a large park in south-east London, Grade II* listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. [1] It was laid out in the 1850s as a pleasure ground, centred around the re-location of The Crystal Palace-- the largest glass building of the time -- from central London to this area on the border of Kent and Surrey; the suburb that grew around the park is known by the ...
Croydon Common Athletic Ground, commonly referred to as the Nest, was a football stadium in Selhurst, south London. The original occupiers of the ground were Croydon Common F.C., the Robins, [1] who occupied it from 1908 to 1917. It was also the home ground of Crystal Palace F.C. from 1918 until 1924.
The National Sports Centre at Crystal Palace in south London, England is a large sports centre and outdoor athletics stadium. It was opened in 1964 in Crystal Palace Park, close to the site of the former Crystal Palace Exhibition building which had been destroyed by fire in 1936, and is on the same site as the former FA Cup Final venue which was used here between 1895 and 1914.