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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 building was later moved and re-erected in 1854 in enlarged form at Sydenham Hill in south London, an area that was renamed Crystal Palace. It was destroyed by fire on 30 November 1936. [8] Six million people—equivalent to a third of the entire population of Britain at the time—visited the Great Exhibition.
Pages in category "1936 fires" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. ... Crystal Palace fire; The Crystal Palace; K. Kursha-2; P. Pearse Street ...
Following the destruction of the Crystal Palace by fire in 1936, the line lost most of its original function of carrying visitors to events in the Palace. Manpower shortages led to a second closure from 1944 to 1946. When services were reintroduced they were very lightly used, and the line finally closed on 20 September 1954.
The Crystal Palace on fire on November 30, 1936. ... September 5 – Beni Suef Cultural Palace fire in Egypt, killed 46. [204]
The Crystal Fountain was designed by Follett Osler, it was the world's first glass fountain, made of four tons of pure crystal glass. [1] It was displayed in the central court of the Crystal Palace of the London Great Exhibition of 1851. It was destroyed by fire, along with the Crystal Palace, in 1936.
30 November – The Crystal Palace in south London is destroyed in a fire. [8] December – Henry Hallett Dale wins the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with Otto Loewi "for their discoveries relating to chemical transmission of nerve impulses". [14] The Instrument of Abdication
1936 was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1936th ... November 30 – A spectacular fire destroys The Crystal Palace in London, ...